Student, teachers to learn together in LSUS seminar
05/26/06

Twenty-five 8th and 9th grade students have been selected to share in a learning environment with middle and high school teachers for two weeks from June 5-16 at LSUS in the “Financial Independence for Life” seminar presented by the Louisiana Consortium of Insurance and Financial Services’ (LCIFS) Institute of Financial Literacy.

The curriculum of personal financial planning topics will empower the 25 students to develop awareness and skills sufficient to live with financial security and independence. At the same time middle and high school teachers will learn how to pass the same information along to other students in their classrooms. Organizations providing financial support for the seminar include Kilpatrick Life Insurance Company and State Farm Insurance.

The seminar will be led by Dr. Harvey Rubin, LCIFS director, professor of finance and holder of the LSUS Kilpatrick Life Insurance Endowed Chair of Insurance and Financial Services, and Dr. Carlos Spaht II, director of the LSUS Institute of Financial Literacy, professor of mathematics and holder of the LSUS AEP SWEPCO LaPREP Professorship. The seminar curriculum will 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 also study the mathematics of finance: reading and creating graphs, calculating percentages, discounts, simple and compound interest and using graphing calculators to graph functions and do sophisticated financial computations.

For information, contact Jan Spaht, coordinator, at 318-798-4121 or Jan.Spaht@lsus.edu.