Welcome to Information about Financial Literacy and the 2009 Financial Awareness Week at Illinois State University, sponsored by the Katie School of Insurance and Financial Services at ISU. The purpose of this week is
1) Bring Awareness of the Importance of this to Students Preparing to Become Educators.
2) Help Make All Students at ISU more Financial Literate and Better Decision Makers About Their Own Financial Interests
3) Provide Information As To How Financial Literacy is Now Being Taught
4) Provide Strategies for How Education on Financial Literacy Could Be Improved
5) Support the Information Provided Throughout the Community About Financial Literacy as part of the Money Smart week in Bloomington/Normal.
The ISU events kickoff tomorrow evening, April 20th, 2009 with a lecture by Dr. Mark Schug entitled, "Financial Literacy: Why is it important and how can we do it better?"
You are encouraged to download and read the attached articles that Dr. Schug will refer to in his presentation. Please feel free to make comments on this subject on this wiki.
The attached files are associated with Ryan Brown's Wednesday night conversation.
The attached files are associated with Eurvine Williams's Wednesday night conversation.
