College students are seeking basic financial management knowledge, according to a recent study conducted by Higher One, a technology and payment services company focused on higher education. In response, Higher One launched the Financial Literacy Counts grant program, to help schools fund awareness campaigns, workshops, online financial literacy tools, and other programs to help students increase their personal financial management skills and abilities.
Keene State College was among the eight colleges and universities selected from a pool of over 80 applicants and received $4,000 from the grant. The proposals were selected based their high levels of student involvement in planning and execution, quality, creativity, and impact on the percentage of undergraduate students on campus.
The College spent the money on the financial literacy programs that it offers during Orientation to incoming students.
Keene State continues to grow! To provide better opportunities for our students, expand our programs, and meet the labor needs of high-tech manufacturers, the Adams Technology Building and the newer addition to Butterfield Hall are coming down to make way for the Technology, Design, and Safety (TDS) Center. This super-efficient building will offer zero net energy performance and LEED Platinum certification—quite a contrast to the outdated, inefficient buildings it will replace.
Only it wasn’t really the “campus” at the time, and it was even several years before there would be a Keene Normal School, let alone a Keene State College. Anyway, on July 18, 1885, the Barnum, Bailey, and Hutchinson Circus was in Nashua. It’s next stop was Keene, to provide the locals with the biggest entertainment event of the year.
Several Keene State profs are working together to explore the impact that the events of 9/11 had on current students and alumni. We remember teaching courses on that day and talking with students.
