Financial Literacy Resource List

For Financial Aid Administrators interesting in building a resource list of articles about money management/financial literacy topics, here is a start (I will plan on continuing to add to this list, so please send me any articles/guides that you find particularly helpful): 

General Guides and Financial Tips for College Students

• 40 Money Tips for College Students from National Endowment for Financial Education
• Financial Survival Tips for Freshmen from Kiplinger.com

Budgeting

• It all starts with budgeting, here is one of the more thorough interactive budgeting tools that I came across.
• Here are some useful articles regarding budgeting
  • Motley Fool article on Budgeting 101
  • Bankrate.com has article on Budgeting for the College Student which includes a section on credit cards
  • 13 Financial Tips for College Students in this Forbes article
  • Fun article about how to make $50 last five days.  

Credit Cards

• Tips from the Consumers Union on credit cards
• US News and World Report blog post highlights indexcreditcards.com and cardratings.com as best sites to find credit card deals for college students
• Don't take that free IPOD offer and sign up for that new credit card says WSJ  
• Credit Smarts from Kiplinger.com
• Crash Course in Credit Cards from Smart Money
• Credit Cards 101 from BusinessWeek

Credit Reports

• Checking and Reading your Credit Report from bankrate.com
• Creditcards.com has interactive credit report feature
• Americans for Fairness in Lending has guide on reading your credit report

Protecting Your Identity

• 15 Tips for Protecting your Identity from bankrate.com
• 5 Minute Guide to Protecting your Identity from MSN Money
• Washington Post has entire section dedicated to Protecting Your Identity
• Protect Your Computer and Identity on Campus

Comments

[Vanessa]

It's obvious we need to do a better job teaching people about money. I've done some work with Junior Achievement. They have a lot of programs in this area. Here's their site, for anyone who is interested www.ja.org.

[Morgan]

I recommend Banzai, available at teachbanzai.com. It is an online tool (free) designed to teach budgeting and money management skills. The site includes free lesson plans and assignment ideas.