Community college financial education for Money Smart Week
Here’s a real example of how a community college is developing a financial education workshop. It’s based on using Money Habitudes cards:
When:Tuesday, April 24, 2012
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Cost: FREE
Money Habitudes is a fun and easy way to discover the role money plays in people’s lives, how their Money Habitudes formed and what they can do about it if they want to make changes to reach their financial and life goals.
Learn about your Money Habitudes and how they affect how you spend, save and earn money!
This event is part of Harper’s Money Smart Week, sponsored by Student Activities.
See: http://moneyhabitudes.com/
Contact: Office of Student Activities 847.925.6242
This is, of course, just one of the many ways and places where Money Habitudes cards are used.
Examples of financial education classes and relationship workshops that use Money Habitudes:
Why do community colleges use Money Habitudes in personal finance classes?
Fun like playing a card game. The hands-on cards aren’t boring like a lecture, PowerPoint or worksheet.- Work with diverse audiences in financial education classes. This is especially true at a community college or junior college with a range of different students.
- As a money personality assessment, help people really understand their saving and spending habits.
- Easily transition to other financial literacy curricula and classes. This may include debt elimination, budgeting, credit repair, student loans, financial aid, buying a home, etc.
- As a financial conversation starter and ice breaker, make it fun and easy for college students to talk about money.
- Easy to teach and easy to use as a teacher. Also easy to teach in a train-the-trainer environment.
- A good, non-threatening introduction to financial literacy. Popular with community financial education awareness events like Money Smart Week.
Common traits of community college financial education seminars:
- Financial education workshops at universities and community colleges are often free or have a nominal fee. That’s the case with this one which uses Money Habitudes cards.
- They are often standalone classes and are short in duration. This college seminar is only an hour.
- As they compete against lots of other student activities, they must appeal to college students. The financial education class must seem fun, interesting, relevant or important.
- Often part of a series. This might include other financial education workshops, life skills classes, career seminars or relationship classes.
Fun like playing a card game. The hands-on cards aren’t boring like a lecture, PowerPoint or worksheet.
