LSUS student-teacher seminar
receives State Farm support
06/10/04

Shreveport-Bossier area middle and high school students are sharing a learning environment with middle and high school teachers at LSUS this summer in two “Financial Independence for Life” seminar sessions presented by the Louisiana Consortium of Insurance and Financial Services’ (LCIFS) Institute of Financial Literacy. State Farm Insurance is supporting the seminar with a $10,500 contribution.

The curriculum of personal financial planning topics in the two-week sessions is empowering the 50 students to develop awareness and skills sufficient to live with financial security and independence. At the same time middle and high school teachers are learning how to teach this same information to students in their classrooms.

The seminars are led by Dr. Harvey Rubin, LCIFS director and professor of finance, and Dr. Carlos Spaht II, director of the program and professor of mathematics. Topics being covered include creating a budget, savings and investments, stocks, bonds, mutual funds and annuities, credit cards, types of insurance, risk tolerance and the time value of money. Students will study the mathematics of finance: reading and creating graphs, calculating percentages, discounts, simple and compound interest and will use graphing calculators to graph functions and do sophisticated financial computations.