Center for Financial Literacy and Education
The Center for Financial Literacy and Education was established in 2015 to promote financial literacy throughout the state. The CFLE created a central mechanism for the outreach, programmatic, and research specific initiatives involving financial literacy and education within the college. Our mission is to bring awareness, resources, programs, and support to constituents across the region that will initiate change agents to promote the economic health and prosperity of the citizens of the State of West Virginia.
The CFLE’s activities are directly tied to the West Virginia Forward movement and speak to the land grant mission of West Virginia University. Programs delivered by the CFLE have had a direct and dramatic impact on primary and secondary educators and students, state employees, undergraduate and graduate students across WVU, and the WVU Retirees Association. We believe that the promotion of better financial decision making will lead to a more productive society and we are working diligently to expand our efforts across the region to be a leader in enhancing the financial decision making for all.
The Center is divided into four pillars: (1) banking, (2) insurance, (3) personal finance, and (4) investments. These four areas serve as the foundation for the primary curricular, research, and outreach strengths of the Department of Finance in the Chamber’s College of Business and Economics and create a tangible connection to our mission. From a basic concept of delivering skills to those that need them the most, the CFLE has built a framework for a large program that is now working with national and international industrial partners to improve the lives of the less fortunate and to train our finance students to succeed in the competitive, global marketplace.
Our Goals
The Center for Financial Literacy and Education promotes financial literacy and education in the state of West Virginia. There is a clear need for increasing financial literacy across the state of West Virginia, as well as within West Virginia University. The question is how to change behavior in a way to improve financial decision-making. The first step in that process is to empower individuals to make better financial decisions by arming them with the tools and confidence to better plan for their financial futures.
Our Pillars
The Center is divided into four pillars: banking, insurance, personal finance and investments. These pillars serve as a foundation and create a strong tie to our mission of transforming the state through outreach, teaching, experiential learning and research.
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The Center works with Financial Literacy organizations across the country that provide free financial literacy resources for all ages.
Our Partners
As a global leader in acquiring and collecting nonperforming loans, PRA Group returns capital to banks and other creditors to help expand financial services for consumers. With thousands of employees worldwide, PRA Group companies collaborate with customers to help them resolve their debt. Visit https://www.pragroup.com/careers/ .
Truist Financial Corporation is a purpose-driven financial services company committed to inspire and build better lives and communities. With 275 years of combined BB&T and SunTrust history, Truist serves approximately 12 million households with leading market share in many high-growth markets in the country.
Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Truist is the sixth-largest commercial bank in the U.S. Truist Bank, Member FDIC. Learn more at https://www.truist.com/.
The Next Gen Personal Finance mission is that every high school student in America will graduate having taken a one-semester course in personal finance by the year 2030. In 2014, Tim and Jessica joined forces, committed to the idea that every single student deserves high quality instruction in personal finance. Every service provided by NGPF is offered at no-cost and always will be.
Robinhood Markets, Inc. is on a mission to democratize finance for all. Robinhood
believes that everyone should have access to the financial markets, so they
built Robinhood from the ground up to make investing friendly, approachable,
and understandable for newcomers and experts alike.
In April 2022, Robinhood Markets and West Virginia University partnered to
make WVU the first D1 school to offer Financial Education coursework to every
student-athlete. The course is available to all student-athletes at WVU, no
matter the student’s sport or gender.
Equitable is proud to be a long-term contributor to the communities where we work and live by providing grants, partnerships and volunteerism through Equitable Foundation. Our commitment to strengthening our communities is an extension of our promise to be a trusted and valued partner to all we serve.