Financial Health Strategic Team

Charge

  • Improve the financial well-being of UA students through the use of campus resources

Strategies

  • Educate the UA campus community on the financial needs of students.
  • Utilize available resources, such as the existing healthy finances website, as a means to create a sense of financial awareness among the student population.
  • Collaborate with existing institutional and professional resources to provide an extensive network of resource to our UA community.

Co-chairs

    • Jan Brakefield
    • Michelle Harcrow – Health Education Coordinator

Financial Health/Debt Management/Gambling Team Roster

Jan Brakefield Department of Consumer Sciences
Bobby Smith Counseling Center
Michelle Harcrow Health Promotion & Wellness
Susan Caples Transportation Services
Jill Satcher Office of Student Judicial Affairs
Dr. Robert McLeod Economics, Finance & Legal Studies/td>
Amanda Wallace Housing & Residential Communities
Nate Young Baptist Campus Ministries
Gentry McCreary Dean of Students
Mary Lowery Career Services

Current Actions of the Team

  • Assessing the UA campus community for existing financial health resources and seeking opportunities to network our website with those resources.
  • Working to establish the Student Financial Health website on the CHES server
  • Exploring opportunities to disseminate the website through curriculum infusion and other existing campus websites.

Past accomplishments

  • Collaborated with Student Affairs to develop a university sponsored website for Student Financial Health

Resources

  • Student Financial Health website (address TBA)

Curriculum Infusion

  • Student Financial Health website

Goals

  • To ensure that the website and student counseling functions are maintained beyond the first year.