Speaker: Emily Burris Hester
Subject: LSU's Student Financial Management Center
The SFMC is committed to helping students create and maintain financially responsible behaviors through providing resources, knowledge sharing, and educational opportunities. The SFMC strives to encourage LSU students to make positive financial decisions and foster healthy management behaviors.
Purpose
1. Campus outreach
2. Provide education accordingly
3. Empower LSU students
4. Make available resources
5. Educate faculty and staff
1/3 of LSU students described their current financial situation as either always or often stressful.
SFMC can help through:
1. One on one appointments discussing budgeting, money management, student debt, credit cards, etc. ([email protected])
2. Resources available at www.sfmc.lsu.edu (downloadable budgets, calculators and articles
3. Workshops and presentations
Transit - LSU Financial Literacy Challenge
Implementation
· Required for all incoming freshmen
· Available to ALL LSU students
· Implemented Spring 2013
· 65% Completion rate in Spring 2013
Opportunities for Future
· Internships
· Graduate Assistantships
· Student employment (high level)
· Volunteer roles
Services we do not provide:
· Investment advice
· Selecting financial institutions
· Choosing financial planning services
· Tax advice and preparation
· Retirement planning
Internship Opportunities / Connections Program
· Email [email protected]
· (225)578-1586
· Can meet up with Emily to speak about goals and interests
Article 1 - 6 Ways a Default Could Hurt the World
(October 7-13)
Subject: LSU's Student Financial Management Center
The SFMC is committed to helping students create and maintain financially responsible behaviors through providing resources, knowledge sharing, and educational opportunities. The SFMC strives to encourage LSU students to make positive financial decisions and foster healthy management behaviors.
Purpose
1. Campus outreach
2. Provide education accordingly
3. Empower LSU students
4. Make available resources
5. Educate faculty and staff
1/3 of LSU students described their current financial situation as either always or often stressful.
SFMC can help through:
1. One on one appointments discussing budgeting, money management, student debt, credit cards, etc. ([email protected])
2. Resources available at www.sfmc.lsu.edu (downloadable budgets, calculators and articles
3. Workshops and presentations
Transit - LSU Financial Literacy Challenge
Implementation
· Required for all incoming freshmen
· Available to ALL LSU students
· Implemented Spring 2013
· 65% Completion rate in Spring 2013
Opportunities for Future
· Internships
· Graduate Assistantships
· Student employment (high level)
· Volunteer roles
Services we do not provide:
· Investment advice
· Selecting financial institutions
· Choosing financial planning services
· Tax advice and preparation
· Retirement planning
Internship Opportunities / Connections Program
· Email [email protected]
· (225)578-1586
· Can meet up with Emily to speak about goals and interests
Article 1 - 6 Ways a Default Could Hurt the World
- A global stock market crash
- A global recession
- Money market funds collapse
- A run on banks
- Some financial institutions will fail
- Lending seizes up
- Congressional Democrats have already capitulated to Republican demands on what level of spending should be enacted to keep the government running.
- Congressional Republicans in the House (or a faction of them) have refused to approve the spending legislation needed to keep the government running unless it also includes provisions on the completely unrelated issue of health care reform.
- The government shutdown does not actually save money and probably increases the budget deficit.
- The need for Congress to increase the existing $16.7 trillion debt ceiling by October 17 does not involve increasing the deficit or spending but rather allows the government to issue debt to cover the costs of legislation that Congress has already enacted — including interest payments on existing debt.
- House Republicans (or a faction of them) now refuse to raise the debt ceiling (in other words, threaten that the U.S. will default on its debt obligations) unless several unrelated parts of their legislative agenda are enacted.
- There are extremely strong legal arguments that if the debt ceiling is not raised in time, the President should declare that the debt ceiling itself is illegal and ignore it.
(October 7-13)