October 2010
Governor Perry Celebrates Financial Planning Week at TTU 2010
Governor Rick Perry and Lubbock Mayor Tom Martin signed a proclamation for National Financial Education Week October 4-10.
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CFAS News Archives
December 15, 2009
Research Focuses on Helping Parents Adjust to Down Syndrome Diagnosis
Researchers are working to develop support information and resources for parents of children with Down syndrome and the professionals who work with them. {read more}
May 1, 2009
Deena Katz named to IA 25 Most Influential
March 27, 2009
As Recession Dashes Retirement Hopes, Baby Boomers Will Work On
The recession has crimped the retirement dreams of America’s aging Baby Boomers – and that may be a good thing for the economy, said a noted financial planner and Texas Tech University professor. {read more}
March 11, 2009
Healthy Relationships Month Raises Question: Can Texas Couples Stay Married?
A majority think it’s important but younger and Hispanic couples could be divorce risk.
Healthy Relationships Month is underway, focusing attention on issues such as building stronger marital bonds. Yet are Texans really equipped to create or – more importantly – sustain the nuptial bliss? {read more}
February 25, 2009
Financial Planning Professor Advises Congress on Salvaging Boomer Retirement
The current economic recession couldn’t have come at a worse time for America’s aging Baby Boomers, who are watching their retirement plans go bust. {read more}
February 20, 2009
TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY DEDICATES NEW SCHWAB TECHNOLOGY COMPLEX
Texas Tech University College of Human Sciences has opened the new Charles Schwab Personal Financial Planning Technology Complex, which contains the largest collection of professional software in any collegiate financial planning program in the United States, on the Lubbock, Texas, campus. The facility houses a technology classroom, technology work lab, and resource workspace that will be used by more than 300 undergraduate and graduate students in the university’s Division of Personal Financial Planning. {read more}
February 16, 2009
Personal Financial Planning Division Creates Groundbreaking Study
The Personal Financial Planning Division announces the launch of a groundbreaking study that will give voice to practitioners in the development of academic curriculum for financial planning programs. {read more}
November 2008
NW Texas Association of Family and Consumer Sciences Presents Rising Stars in a Global Community
June 11, 2008
Personal Financial Planning Faculty Participate in Financial Seminar for Women
Texas Tech University personal financial planning professors Dr. Vickie Hampton and Deena Katz participated today in the “Up to Speed” Financial Seminar for Women. The half-day event was hosted by the Lubbock Chamber of Commerce in partnership with Evensky & Katz Wealth Management. {read more}
May 5, 2008
Investment News: Two graduates, two paths
Entering their final month of college, Dallas McKee and Joshua Mungavin, financial planning students at Texas Tech University, have traveled on different paths toward their graduation. {read more}
May 5, 2008
Texas Tech degree opens doors
The trick to finding qualified candidates for the financial planning business is to know where to look for them.
For Pennington Bass & Associates in Lubbock, Texas, a 35-year-old advisory firm, that has meant recruiting at least 30 interns from Texas Tech University, also in Lubbock. Since the late 1980s, the firm has hired half those students to work in the practice. {read more}
May 2, 2008
Schwab Names Research Scholar, Tech Complex
Charles Schwab today announced the inaugural Schwab Research Scholar at Texas Tech University. {read more}
May 1, 2008
Charles Schwab and College of Human Sciences Name First Schwab Research Scholar
Doctoral student, Danielle Winchester to conduct a national study on financial planning, bridging the gap between the classroom and the real world. {read more}
April 28, 2008
Next generation of advisers: Taking the 'holistic' approach
On the sprawling plains of western Texas, surrounded by oil wells, cotton fields and pickup trucks, sits a university with a major pool of developing talent for the financial advice industry.
Texas Tech University in Lubbock is located on a 1,839-acre campus dotted with brick buildings topped with red tiled roofs and surrounded by close-cropped grass. {read more}
April 26, 2008
Getting Service Right
COMPANIES must make major trade-offs if they want to provide consistent, profitable service, argues Frances X. Frei, an associate professor at Harvard Business School. {read more}
March 13, 2008
COHS Announces Red to Black Financial Education Week
The Texas Tech University College of Human Sciences Red to Black Program will host Financial Education Week March 23-27. {read more}
January 29, 2008
Personal Financial Planning Hosts Distinguished Lecture Series
College of Human Sciences promotes opportunity to learn about Financial Planning profession through industry expertise. {read more}
November 26, 2007
Personal Financial Planning Faculty Member Named to Association Board
Texas Tech University personal financial planning professor Deena Katz was elected this week to the 2008 Board of Directors for the Financial Planning Association (FPA). {read more}
August 22, 2007
Family Therapy Helps Recovery of Seriously Ill Children
Providing family therapy to seriously ill children and their families consistently enhances medical outcomes and increases the overall mental health for adolescent patients, family and treatment professionals, Texas Tech Marriage and Family Therapy faculty found through a unique partnership integrating family counseling as part of medical treatment. {read more}
June 4, 2007
Harold Evensky, TTU Adjunct Professor, featured in Wall Street Journal column on June 4, 2007.
Put the bulk of your money in broad-market-index funds, and use a small portion to try riskier investments.
That's the investing mantra of Evensky & Katz Wealth Management, a Coral Gables, Fla., fee-only financial-planning firm that works with wealthy individuals. {read more}
August 10, 2007
Family Therapy Model Successful in Organizational Intervention
Therapy techniques focused on family dynamics and structure could effectively be used to increase employee satisfaction and alter employee attitudes, a team of Texas Tech University researchers have found.
Texas Tech Marriage and Family Therapy faculty, working with colleagues from the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, identified methods of family systems-based therapy that can be used throughout organizational intervention programs. {read more}