Learn money management skills at free campus seminar
klykins@tntech.edu
Office of Communications & Marketing
Tennessee Tech will host Making It Count’s “Ultimate Money Skills: College,” a financial success presentation created to educate and empower you to develop smart money management skills.
Making It Count, an educational service provider for students and a business unit of Monster Worldwide Inc., is teaming up with Bank of America, one of the world’s largest financial institutions to provide the free presentation on Thursday, March 25, from 11 to noon in Bruner Hall Auditorium.
The “Ultimate Money Skills: College” program prepares students with an understanding of appropriate credit card use, student banking options, developing and following a budget and savings. According to the College Board’s 2008 Trends in Student Aid, almost 60 percent of four-year undergraduate students graduate with some debt, and the average student loan debt among graduating seniors is $22,700.
“The Ultimate Money Skills: College program emphasizes the importance of how the choices students make about money while in college can have a direct impact on their future financial success,” said JR Cifani, vice president and general manager, Making It Count. “Knowing undergraduates are busier than ever with academics, internships and extra-curricular activities, we developed a succinct, yet informative, program to help them make smart financial decisions.”
The presentation is supplemented by ultimatemoneyskills.com, which offers more information on the topics covered in the presentation, as well as an opportunity for students to submit solutions to money-related challenges, provide their own money-making and money-saving tips and read a money-management blog, written by college students.
More information about the presentation can be found online at www.MakingItCount.com or contact TTU’s Linda Null 372-3345.
