Thursday, April 17, 2008
The University Career Center and the KU Credit Union kick off the third annual “Backpacks to Briefcases: Preparing for Life After Graduation Series” today at 3:30 p.m. in 149 Burge Union.
Erin Wolfram, assistant director of career networks for the UCC, said “Backpacks to Briefcases” was a program aimed at educating students about the financial issues they may encounter during their first few years out of college.
“Our job at the University Career Center is to prepare students for all facades of career development,” Wolfram said. “Part of that involves helping students prepare for jobs and their financial future after they leave KU.”
“Backpacks to Briefcases” will feature three seminars during the next three weeks. Each seminar will focus on a particular issue regarding personal finance.
Today’s seminar will focus on teaching students how to build credit.
Kirsten Flory, business development officer for KU Credit Union, will present the event.
“As students are leaving college and getting that first job, some of them are learning to manage money for the first time in their lives,” Flory said. “Tomorrow’s seminar is basically on credit, how to build credit, what a credit report means and things of that nature.”
She said the seminar would mostly target graduate students, but she said the event was open to anyone who wanted to attend.
The Burge Union will also feature a financial basics seminar on April 25 and May 1.
The April 25 seminar will focus on budgeting and debt management. Flory said she would discuss topics such as how to develop a budget, how to distinguish between wants and needs, and how to avoid debt.
The May 1 seminar will focus on fraud and identity theft. Flory said she would discuss different types of fraud and identity theft, how students could protect themselves from fraud and identity theft, and what students could do if they become victims.
All three seminars will be presented from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in 149 Burge Union.
The seminars are free and open to the public.
—Edited by Katherine Loeck
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