Finance

Join Joshua Kampa from Chase and learn how to use credit to empower your financial wellness. From building it from humble beginnings to using it effectively down the line.

Join Sallie Mae as they provide a credit presentation going into detail on how to manage one’s credit reports and strengthen your credit in the meantime.

This presentation provides information to help graduate students create and manage a budget while in school. Budgeting while in graduate school will help students minimize their expenses, live within their means, reduce student loan borrowing, and increase their credit score to prepare for a life as a professional upon graduation.

Curious about Scholarships? Want to find ways to set your application apart from others? Then join Student Financial Services as they go in depth into an array of different scholarship opportunities not only within WSU but outside of it as well. While also providing tips, secrets and insight into what sets a good scholarship application from others.

Join Accredited Financial Counselor (AFC) Kelly Demand to discuss how personal experiences and identities shape our relationship with personal finances.

Learn how to negotiate salary effectively and practice engaging in necessary conversations, so you feel more at ease as you transition into the workforce.

In celebration of Financial Literacy Month, learn about personal finance from the WSU Carson College of Business Peer Financial Wellness Coaches.

Financial wellness is a tool academic and student support personnel can use to enhance student engagement and persistence yet is almost exclusively avoided in academic advising conversations due to stigma and discomfort. Discover asset-based strategies for integrating financial conversations into current practices to amplify student achievement. Participants take-aways include a financial wellness framework and strategies for equitably incorporating financial wellness into academic advising.

Join Accredited Financial Counselor (AFC) Kelly Demand as she guides you in turning your financial mistakes into a positive and exploring ways to make more informed decisions the next time around.

Join Student Financial Services as they go in depth of the loan and repayment process.

Through a fun, interactive simulation, you’ll gain real-world financial planning, saving, and budgeting skills. Take part in an exercise that involves getting assigned a job, salary, and a family, then making financial decision while trying to stay within budget.

Join our financial education fair where you will be able to meet with experts in the areas of employment, personal and consumer finance, and financial aid. We will also cover the Cougar Money Matters Learning Portal, our online personal finance tool.

This presentation introduces students to important financial topics and setting yourself up for financial success. Topics covered include setting attainable goals, starting salary, ideal spending percentages, budgeting for your first large expenses, building credit, managing debt, investing, and saving for retirement. This is a great information session for students close to graduation as well as students beginning to manage their own personal finances.

Compete for prizes while learning about your Finances and exploring your financial options! The crash course you never got!

Wanting to see the world but are struggling because you also are on a tight budget? Join Eduardo as he gives some advice on how to plan ahead of time and look for the best deals on flights, stays and some cool attractions to visit! Don’t worry about your emotional baggage, just wing it and keep it plain and simple!

Peer Advisor Nayomi will share her tips and tricks of shopping on a budget. She will discuss local shops around Pullman that offer promotions, online stores with reduced prices, and advice that helped her limit overspending.

Join Peer Advisor David on a crash course of beneficial books to help with financial literacy.

Join Peer Advisor Nayomi in this student led round table discussion. Share experiences, ask questions, and discuss finances in a peer to peer, relaxed setting.