OKMM Services for Campus Professionals
Our goal is to help you integrate financial education into the work you’re already doing. We’re prepared to support your financial education efforts through direct service and staff training.
Here are a few of the signature services we offer:
::Workshops and Workshop Series::
Workshops are a great way to reach a large number of students with topics that matter to them. OKMM can help you plan and market your workshop to reach the most students. Schedule a workshop or series of workshops on any of the following topics:
- Budgeting
- Banking
- Savings
- Credit
- Getting out of debt
- Identity theft
- Student loan management
We can customize each workshop to best fit the times and topics that most interest your students. In a one hour session, we can typically cover two topics in general or one topic in-depth. We can even help you create a survey to find out what your students are interested in.
::Publications & Resources::
In addition to workshops, we also offer the following products and publications:
- Your Money Matters Guide – College Edition is a 20-page color booklet that highlights budgeting, saving, college planning, student loan management and consumer credit in a fun, informative way that’s relevant to college students.
- Self-paced learning modules are designed to help users navigate important financial decisions. Each module contains learning objectives, tools, a quiz and a completion certification.
Our current selection explores:
- Budgeting: tracking your spending, patching money leaks and building a realistic budget that your family can live with.
- Saving & Banking: planning for your future and building wealth by saving and building an emergency fund, identifying the differences between banks and credit unions, highlighting helpful financial tools and finding a financial planner that you trust.
- Auto Loans: determining how much you can afford to spend, comparing new vs. used, buying vs. leasing and exploring how to get the best deal.
- Money Management for College Students: saving money on college necessities, learning to build and manage credit, avoiding identity theft and successfully managing student loans.
- Transitioning to Independence: exploring resumes and job interviews, evaluating job offers and benefits, developing a real-world budget, managing student loans and thinking about retirement now rather than later.
- Love & Money: determining your money personality, setting financial goals as a couple, learning how to protect your financial assets and recovering financially after a divorce.
- Money Talks podcasts are on-the-go resources, ideal for our fast-paced lifestyle. Each session is three to five minutes in length and covers topics like financial aid, identity theft prevention, budgeting 101, living on a college budget, savvy savings strategies and understanding your credit score.
::Freshman Orientation::
One of the best times to introduce students to financial concepts is when they first arrive on campus, excited and open to new experiences. We recognize that campus professionals have a lot of important information to share with students during this time so we’ll work with you to customize an orientation approach that works for you. We can offer workshops, train orientation leaders or provide materials for orientation packets. Contact us in the spring to ensure we can find time to work with your school; our calendar fills up fast!
::Building a Campus-Wide Initiative::
Let OKMM help you turn your existing events and programs into a campus-wide financial literacy initiative. We can help you gather the important players and execute a well-marketed plan to integrate financial literacy into many aspects of campus life. We’ll help you brainstorm ways to turn existing efforts into a cohesive program. In addition to brainstorming, we can work with your team to develop a marketing campaign and an assessment strategy.
::Financial Friday Program::
If you’re looking for ways to reach students or staff on a regular basis, consider taking advantage of OKMM’s Financial Friday program. Financial Friday is a monthly service allowing people to ask money-related questions and get the answers they need in a timely, confidential manner. On the last Friday of the month, we send subscribers an email with the answers to questions, along with other helpful tips. You can participate in our program and receive our monthly email to distribute to your students or staff, or we can help you create a Financial Friday program of your own. To learn more about this program and view sample emails, contact us at OklahomaMoneyMatters@ocap.org.
::Web Text & Financial Literacy Articles::
Let us customize financial content for your website, blog, newsletter or social media outlet. If you need text to make an impact, we can help you develop the right material for your audience. We can even help you work with your media personnel or webmaster to distribute the content.
::Additional Campus Services::
- Semester-long workshop series to students and parents
- Faculty and staff training to offer guidance and resources to students having financial difficulty
- Customization of publications and materials to suit your students’ needs
