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Article: Get financially fit: a financial education toolkit for college campuses.
- Article from:
- Consumer Interests Annual
- Article date:
- January 1, 2007
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This is an abstract of a presentation at the annual conference that described various models for delivering financial literacy education on college campuses. It was based on Get Financially Fit! A Financial Education Toolkit for College Campuses, a how-to guide written by the American Council on Consumer Interests Consumer Education Committee. The publication can be downloaded from http://www.consumerinterests.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=4136.
In recent years government support for higher education has declined, tuition and fees have increased at a rate greater than inflation, and more college students have acquired more student loans as well as higher credit ...