PROVIDING FINANCIAL EDUCATION TO THE COMMUNITY: BUSINESS STUDENTS' CONTRIBUTION

Financial education is a critical topic/skill for the development of a progressive society. A project was designed and implemented to address two primary objectives. The first was to provide students with the opportunity to identify a critical need in a target community and to design an effective ap...

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Published inAllied Academies International Conference. Academy for Economics and Economic Education. Proceedings Vol. 12; no. 1; p. 1
Main Author Beale, Ruby L
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Arden Jordan Whitney Enterprises, Inc 01.01.2009
Subjects
African Americans
Behavior
Censuses
Community centers
Community service
Credit scoring
Education
Families & family life
Financial literacy
Interactive learning
Interest rates
Low income groups
Minority & ethnic groups
Personal finance
Predatory lending
Small business
Studies
Workshops
United States > US
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Summary:Financial education is a critical topic/skill for the development of a progressive society. A project was designed and implemented to address two primary objectives. The first was to provide students with the opportunity to identify a critical need in a target community and to design an effective approach which would address the documented financial education challenges that are disparately experienced by low to moderate income predominately minority individuals and families. The second primary objective was to serve critical needs in their surrounding university community by applying their academic and professional learning to real life community needs. The development of this project provided a vehicle for students to use their academic training and community service commitments to assist others with critical financial education and behavioral application needs and strategies [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]