USA Funds^® Life Skills^® has helped hundreds of colleges and universities teach their students how to better manage their time and money, graduate with less debt, and prepare to meet the financial responsibilities that they will face following graduation.

To help you determine how to put USA Funds Life Skills to work on your campus, we offer you summaries of how nearly 80 other postsecondary institutions have used the program.

You can view the summaries by:

Institution type

• Four-year private college or university.
• Four-year public college or university.
• Two-year public college or university.
• Private career school.
• Historically Black College or University.
• Hispanic-Serving Institution.

USA Funds Life Skills module used

• Module 1: Get a Grip on Your Finances.
• Module 2: Seek out Financial Aid.
• Module 3: Work Hard but Smart.
• Module 4: Take Control of Your Future.
• Module 5: Now That You Are About to Graduate.

How the institution has used the program

• Career development.
• English as a second language.
• Entrance counseling.
• Exit counseling.
• Financial-aid awareness.
• High-school outreach.
• Money-management counseling.
• Parent orientation.
• Peer financial counseling.
• Seminars/workshops/talks.
• Student-success courses.
• Student orientation.
• Student probation.
• Training.
• TRIO programs.

The campus/external units that deliver the program

• Academic affairs.
• Career services.
• Financial aid.
• Lenders/Guarantors.
• Student affairs.
• Student-support services.
• Other.

Target audience

• First-year students.
• Second-year students.
• Third-year students.
• Graduating students.
• All students.
• Parents.
• High-school students.
• Student-athletes.
• Staff.
• TRIO.
• Other.

Acknowledgements
USA Funds is grateful to the campus representatives who willingly shared the implementation strategies featured in this resource guide. Thanks also to the USA Funds debt-management consultants who assisted in the identification of these best-of-the-best financial-literacy practices. Special thanks to Lana Low, who conducted the research for this resource guide, and to Joseph (Jay) Richardson, an intern from Purdue University, for his assistance in setting up interviews with the contributing institutions and editing the executive summaries.