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OU Financial Education (fED)
Brad Burnett
Judi Voeller
Shana Stanton
Caryn Pacheco
The “9 Things”
learn.ou.edu
The 9 Things Intro Video
Course Evolution
The “9 Things” began as a lecture series…
then a brochure…
then a course…
*online
*flipped for the
classroom
Invest Ed *STARS*
Featuring Google Finance!
Thing 4 – They Are Watching!
Mind Your Own Budget:
The Apartment
9 Things Class
Guest Speakers
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financial Aid/bursar/scholarships/fED
car salesman
real estate agent
major exploration
career services
investment advisors
Charitable Project
“Mary Bags”
Benefiting the Women’s
Resource Center
OU 9 Things Financial Literacy
Library Guide
• called a “libguide”
• a list of resources created and
maintained by librarians to assist
students/users with their research
needs
• curated by a collaboration
of subject matter experts
and librarians
• and is mapped
to the course…
OU Library Guide
Direct link: http://guides.ou.edu/financial_literacy/9things
Search the OU Libraries site: guides.ou.edu/home &
type 9 Things in the “Search Guides”
9 Things Libguide in Course
Enrolled students may access the libguide on the course menu bar.
9 Things Libguide Home Page
Libguide
Every “thing” will have the following sections:
Libguide
And additional sections including a list of topics, helpful books, videos,
helpful resources, online apps, related to the “9 Things” topics:
Create Your Own Libguide
• library guide software used by 4800+
libraries
• 24/7 web based platform
• each guide has its own unique address
– user friendly
• very visual
• work with your library
• contact our OU librarians for more
info…
Financial Education Services
• fED website:
http://www.ou.edu/financialed.ht
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• fED
commercial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F
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fED
•t-shirt video
•Save Sooner lecture series
•B&P advice column
•social media
•financial literacy task force
•location
Noteworthy…
• location - office moved to a more student friendly area on
campus
• rebrand - changed the name from OU Financial Education &
Counseling Center to Financial Education Services
• new look - gave our logo a fresh look
• added - fED as primary logo to gain
brand recognition
Networking:
Key to OUr $uccess!
Developed relationships with many entities on
campus:
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Graduation Office
North Campus (Aviation)
PACAA
Center for Student Advancement
OU Federal Credit Union
Fit+Rec, etc.
***They promote for us!***
Financial Literacy Task Force
Comprised from different areas on campus
including our:
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Graduation Office
OU Federal Credit Union
Academic Advisors, professors
Project Threshold/Trio program
and Financial Aid Services
Purpose:
To create exposure and determine the needs of ALL
OU students.
Created Social Media Presence
Guest Speaker Lecture Series
1. I OU Zero
2. Save Sooner
3. Boomer Consumer
4. $ooner ¢hange
5. ¢hange $ooner
We surveyed 500 students in spring 2014 and they
picked the name of our
Save Sooner Program!
Registration
Events: register through Eventbrite for guest speaker series…
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Budgeting Bootcamp: Financial Fitness……63
Identity Theft & Fraud: Protect Your Assets……68
Banking Fundamentals: Reality Check Just Got Bounced……86
Contracts & Leases: A Life Lesson About Legally Binding
Agreements……72
Love and Money Don’t Mix: Valentines Edition……59
Alums Tell All: Entrepreneurship……57
Student Loans: Get Ready to Repay (registration not yet open)
Students can also suggest topics…
OU Daily:
Ask Bucky and Penny
• utilize our “9 Things” avatars to gain
more brand recognition
• students submit a question
& we select one per week
• published weekly in the
OU Daily newspaper
fED Website Overhaul
• made site more student friendly
• created student discounts and deals
page
• included more in depth information
about individual financial literacy
topics
• promote 9 Things classes
OUr Next Initiative…
Coming soon…
a junior/senior level
9 Things course…
Any questions?
Thank you for attending!