COHS Announces Red to Black Financial Education Week
PrintMarch 13, 2008 | Written by Cory Chandler
The Texas Tech University College of Human Sciences Red to Black Program will host Financial Education Week March 23-27.
Members of the Red to Black organization will be around the Lubbock community and the Texas Tech campus to offer free counseling and to provide educational information on financial planning.
Red to Black is an outreach of the Division of Personal Financial Planning that provides free and confidential individual financial counseling and planning services.
Information booths will be available from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. every day between the Student Union Building (SUB) and Texas Tech Library.
Financial Education Week events include:
- Monday, March 23:
11 a.m.-1 p.m. Information booth at the SUB
11 a.m.-2 p.m. Financial check-up site in SUB Mesa Room - Tuesday, March 24:
9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Information booth at South Plains Mall
11 a.m.-1 p.m. Information booth at SUB
11 a.m.-2 p.m. Financial check-up site in Fresh Plate Dining Hall in Bledsoe/Gordon/Sneed and the lobby of Chitwood/Weymouth
5-6 p.m. Turbulent times presentation in the SUB Mesa Room - Wednesday, March 25:
9-10 a.m. Identity theft presentation in the SUB Mesa Room
11 a.m. - 1 p.m. Information booth in the SUB
11 a.m. - 2 p.m. Financial check-up site in the Student Diversity Relations lobby (SUB basement)
3:30 - 4:30 p.m. Turbulent times presentation in the SUB Mesa Room - Thursday, March 26:
Noon - 1 p.m. Identity theft presentation in the SUB Mesa Room
11 a.m. -1 p.m. Information booth in the SUB
11 a.m. – 2 p.m. Financial check-up site in the Alpha Phi Lodge (1 Greek Circle)
3- 4 p.m. Guest speaker on investing in your 20s: Saundra Davis in the SUB Mesa Room - Friday, March 27:
11 a.m. -1 p.m. Information booth in the SUB
11 a.m. - 2 p.m. Financial check-up site in the Graduate School in the basement of Holden Hall
The Texas Tech Personal Financial Planning Division strives to educate students on the need to focus financial knowledge on families and the achievement of their goals.
CONTACT: Jo Ann Altman, supervisor of college development and external relations, College of Human Sciences, (806) 742- 3264, or joann.altman@ttu.edu.