SoHE News: May 15-21
New faculty coming to SoHE, Addo on utility bills for struggling families, upcoming webinar on student debt management, and more.
Tag Archives: Center for Financial Security
Video: Finding Your “Pandemic Purpose”
Dr. Christine Whelan offers a brief guide to managing one’s new routines, challenges, and opportunities, alongside a roundup of other resources from SoHE faculty addressing the COVID-19 crisis.
SoHE News: Apr 24–30
Whelan on the baby boom (or bust), Fairbanks featured by Wisconsin Idea Seminar, CFS webinar now online, and more.
SoHE News: Apr 17–23
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SoHE News & Events: Mar 13–26
SoHE and Extension experts advise on family finances in COVID-19 crisis | DiPrete Brown promotes COVID-19 survey for Wisconsin | Whelan shares tips for mental health under safer-at-home guidance | Keeler profiled in Badger Insider | Addo on the value of a writing community | Shim APLUS research featured on PsychCentral | Outside Magazine highlights Raison’s heat therapy research | Badger$ense covers credit scores for Badger Herald | CFS research cited in Motley Fool | Hartley on parent-child relationships in families with children on the autism spectrum | Shim on young adults’ relationship choices and financial resources | Hilgendorf and Moore on collaborative health equity evaluation models | Ahrens on multiple internships for college students
“Personal Financial Education Should Be for Everyone”
A Q&A with Dr. Cliff Robb, of Consumer Science, on UW–Madison’s personal finance major becoming an AFCPE® Registered Education Program.
SoHE News & Events: Jan 24–30
Tenure for 3 SoHE faculty | Child Development Lab launches new website | Faculty discussion next Tuesday about course release | New research from Kerr | Olive, Fairbanks, Gaddis, and Angus in the news
SoHE News & Events: Jan 17–23
Poehlmann-Tynan on child visitation rooms in prisons | Center for Financial Security to advise national program to counsel low- and moderate-income consumers | Whelan discusses Madison’s #1 work-life balance ranking and on New Year’s Resolutions | Raison live event on the mind-body connection | Fairbanks to speak at Kent State | Shim’s new research on the college-to-career financial transition | Dodge Francis on diversifying the research profession
SoHE News & Events: Sep 27–Oct 3
“Intersections” show glowingly reviewed in The Isthmus | Major funding awarded to research financial vulnerability | Christine Whelan talks clothing rental | Jennifer Gaddis in Mother Jones | Jennifer Angus show opening soon in St. Pete
Junior Scholars in Training Program Preps the Next Generation of Financial Vulnerability Researchers
The Center for Financial Security Retirement and Disability Research Center mentors a diverse cohort of future leaders in the field.
SoHE News & Events: August 9-15
What’s really in our clothes?; Back-to-school savings tips; Background TV’s impact on kids; and more.
SoHE Recognizes Two Grad Students as Exemplary Mentors with New Award
Winners Madelaine L’Esperance and Carolyn Liesen graduate this summer with an extra feather in their caps.
Understanding Poverty: Getting Beyond Just Dollars and Cents
A new book by SoHE professor Sarah Halpern-Meekin proposes the idea of “social poverty” as a key factor in people’s well-being and decisions.
“We Need… a New Approach to Work in This Country”
SoHE’s Dr. Christine Whelan kicks off a new radio segment with a look at workplace burnout.
CFS’s Five-Year Focus on Vulnerable Populations
Collaboration with the U.S. Social Security Administration supports work led by J. Michael Collins, the Fetzer Family Chair in Consumer and Personal Finance and Associate Professor in Consumer Science. It’s not uncommon today to hear reports of a looming retirement crisis for the population at large. But what lies ahead for our most vulnerable? As […]
SoHE News and Events: June 15-21
CFS Director Collins Quoted in NYT Associate Professor and Faculty Director of the Center for Financial Security, Dr. J. Michael Collins, was quoted in a recent New York Times article titled 6 College-Money Lessons You Didn’t Learn in High School. Among advice from other experts, Collins suggests students create a spending plan in order to prevent excess […]
Check Your Free Credit Report Campaign Wins Award
Governor Scott Walker announced today that The Check Your Free Credit Report Campaign, an initiative spear-headed by Peggy Olive, Financial Capability Specialist, and the UW-Extension Family Living Program has been named a recipient of a Governor’s Financial Literacy Award 2017. Olive holds a joint appointment in the UW-Madison Center for Financial Security and UW-Extension Family Living […]
Grad Student L’Esperance: Exploring Financial Decision-Making
Household Finance and Well-being In our modern world, life can be a series of big and small financial decisions. So how do individuals make these day-to-day decisions that can impact the rest of their lives? SoHE graduate student Madelaine L’Esperance is digging deeper into this question through her research, paying special attention to how people, particularly low-income […]
PF Student Life
Student Organizations Connect with other students while developing your professional resume through an on-campus organization. Financial Occupations Club for University Students (FOCUS) provides career development, improves financial literacy on campus, offers counseling and intervention to fellow students and the surrounding community, and promotes the financial planning process. Phi Upsilon Omicron (Phi U) recognizes and encourages […]
Center for Financial Security
The Center for Financial Security (CFS) supports applied research on household finance and financial capability. CFS research examines the role that specific programs, policies, and products can play in helping individuals navigate the increasingly complex financial marketplace CFS faculty and staff have extensive experience in program development, evaluation, and applied research in partnership with organizations ranging […]