Financial Wellness
The Financial Wellness program strives to provide resources, guidance, and activities to help students manage their money and build healthy financial habits towards stability.
Why is it important?
Money plays a critical
role in our lives and not having enough of it impacts health as well as academic performance. Financial stress is repeatedly found to be a common source of stress, anxiety and fear for college students. Keeping track of expenses, making a budget,
and sticking to it are important skills to have in order to be financially responsible and independent. Learning how to maximize your financial wellness now will help you feel prepared to handle potentially stressful financial situations in the future.
Finance Fridays
Students can drop in to a Zoom and ask any personal finance questions they may have. Fridays, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Jan. 22
Feb. 19
Mar. 19
Apr. 30
Take Control of Your Money Workshop Series
The Financial Wellness program is here to give you the tools and resources to take control of your money instead of letting it control you.
Feb. 2: Credit & Credit Cards
Feb. 17: Student loans & Repayment
Mar. 2: Saving & Emergency Funds
Mar. 17: Saving for Retirement
Mar. 30: The Art of Budgeting
Apr. 14: Impulse Spending & Money Mindset
Apr. 27: Are you Financially Fit?
Preparing for Life After Graduation
This workshop will help graduating students with setting up a new budget for life after graduation. We will also cover salary negotiation, student loan repayment, and how to avoid lifestyle inflation!
Thursday, Apr. 8 | 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Budgeting 101: How to Budget for the Semester
In this workshop, we will walk through setting up a budget for the spring semester. This workshop is great for students that will be receiving scholarship/student loan money at the beginning of the semester that needs to last until May.
Thursday, Jan. 28 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Game of Life
Providing students with a real-life example of budgeting with different incomes and expenses. Each student will get their own profession with a certain income and will have to budget their money accordingly.
Thursday, Feb. 25 | 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
1 -on- 1 Virtual Financial Coaching
Topics include:
- Budgeting
- Student Loans
- Credit
- Savings
- Retirement
- Identity Protection
- Customized Material
Cash Course
CashCourse is your guide to making informed financial choices. Register for a free account using your CU Denver email to find your financial wellness assignments and other financial tools and start taking charge of your money.
1. Create an account with your CU Denver email address.
2. Go to My Assignments on your Dashboard
3. Click Instructor or School Admin and choose Chelsea Morgan in the drop-down.
There are various assignment modules that take about 30 minutes each. You can do any assignment you choose.
External Virtual Financial Resources
Managing your spending and saving
Mint
This popular budgeting app securely connects directly to your bank account and automatically updates your spending. You can create multiple budgets on Mint and make them as specific as you’d like! Mint also has the Cash vs. Credit option which lets you see your total credit card balances versus the cash you have to pay them off.
Personal Capital
Another budgeting app, similar to Mint, which wrangles all accounts into one platform. This platform shows separate graphs for your cash flow, you’re budget, and your investments. This app can be used for simple budgeting or more complex finances.
Managing your credit
Credit Karma
Get your free credit scores, monitor your credit report and get recommendations to improve your score.
Credit Card Insider
Read through clear, consistent guides designed to help you understand credit, manage debt responsibly, and make safe, positive decisions with credit cards.
Student financial literacy
Annuity
Annuity.org has created a guide to the basics of student financial literacy. This guide covers scholarships, student loans, planning for the future and more! By managing how to pay for school and budgeting, students can worry less about debt and more about their career and future.
Money Geek
For many students, the implications of COVID-19 will change how they pay for college. Funding opportunities — such as scholarships — could fall through, or layoffs could occur if they haven't already. No matter what a student's current financial situation (or their family's), they should educate themselves on how the pandemic impacts different funding options to be better prepared for any changes.
Grow your wealth
Acorns
Invest your spare change from debit card swipes into a diversified portfolio. Withdraw at any time with no charge. FREE for college students with a valid .edu email address for up to 4 years.
Become financially literate
Finimize
Understand today’s financial news within 3 minutes, in language you can relate to. Subscribe to the fun, daily newsletters for free.
Wellness & Recreation Services
CU Denver
Lola & Rob Salazar Student Wellness Center
1355 12th Street
Denver, CO 80204
303.315.WELL (9355)
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