Students who write for the College Connect blog describe their own experiences handling and managing money and credit. Blog topics include family financial crises, working while going to school, financial aid, managing debt and more.
The blog writers attend Arizona State University, the University of Missouri School of Journalism and the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.
This personal finance blog project is funded by Denver-based National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE).
Fall 2020
Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Georgia
Embracing Money Therapy
By Aleeza Rasheed
To be a college student is to be stuck in a liminal space between adulthood and childhood. In this space, there’s a lot of learning and transformation. Read more…
The Graduate School Game Plan
By Alexis Brock
According to data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Americans owe more than $1.6 trillion in student loans. Additional data from Pew Research indicates that the amount owed varies substantially by level of education. In 2016, the National Center for Education Statistics reported that the average cumulative student loan balance for law students was over $145,000. Read more…
