After 40 years of serving higher education in several financial aid roles, including the State of Maryland and the University System of Maryland, Jane Hickey is retiring from her position as Director of Financial Aid and Scholarships at UMBC, effective October 1, 2020.

Jane began her career first as a student assistant in the Financial Aid Office of Salisbury University, her alma mater.  After earning her bachelor’s degree, Jane worked first at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore in the Office of Financial Aid before being hired at Chesapeake College as director.  She later served as the Associate Director for MHEC’s Office of Student Financial Assistance for nearly six years.  She has served several Maryland Community Colleges, including Anne Arundel Community College and Prince George’s Community College as Director of Financial Aid.  Jane moved to the University of Maryland Global Campus (formerly University of Maryland University College) in 2010 where she served as Executive Director of Financial Aid.  

In February 2014, Jane joined the UMBC community as Director of Financial Aid and Scholarships.  During her tenure as director, Jane contributed immensely to the effective and efficient administration of need-based and merit-based aid.  Her contributions include successfully leading UMBC through its first Department of Education Program Review (required for Title IV aid eligibility); restructuring roles and responsibilities and establishing protocols and procedures to maximize audit, compliance and quality assurance standards; implementing an online portal to promote and facilitate the application, review and selection of hundreds of institutional and private scholarship opportunities; and, the recent expansion of the financial aid services to include financial literacy education, to name a few.  UMBC has benefited immeasurably from Jane’s depth of knowledge and expertise in student financial aid and her student-centered approach.  We will miss Jane tremendously.

Welcome to UMBC! As an honors university, we take great pride in preparing you, our student, to be successful in all of your pursuits. Managing money is an important part of your daily life and we want to assure that you are well-versed in this important life skill that many find challenging.  

Your journey to financial wellness begins now with our interactive (and entertaining) online FinancialSmarts CashCourse! This multi-module, self-paced course ensures that you are as well-prepared to manage your budgets, bank accounts, assets and debt as you are to master your academic and career interests. To enroll in the online CashCourse click here.

Once you’re enrolled in the course, you’re welcome to complete as many modules as you’d like….whenever you’d like. But here’s where financial smarts start to pay off….

●      If you complete the pre-assessment and one module, your name will be entered in our $100 drawing.

●      If you complete the pre-assessment and two or more modules, your name will be entered in our $300 drawing.

●      If you complete the pre-assessment and all modules, your name will be entered in our $500 drawing.

If selected for the drawing you will have the scholarship prize added to your billing account. This scholarship can help pay for tuition; if your bill has already been paid the award will be refunded to you to help with other educational expenses.

All drawings will take place on September 16, 2020. So don’t wait...get started now! If you have questions about the online FinancialSmarts CashCourse, please feel free to contact us at financialsmarts@umbc.edu.

Enjoy the remainder of your summer and best wishes for a successful first semester at UMBC!

Your UMBC FinancialSmarts Team 

Established in 2011 through a partnership between Enrollment Management and Financial Services, FinancialSmarts, UMBC’s award-winning financial literacy program, continues to evolve.  

Effective July 1, the FinancialSmarts program will move from its current home in the Office of Enrollment Management to its new home in the Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships.  This strategic move expands the scope and reach of our Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships to serve all students at UMBC, beyond need-based and merit eligible students, including undergraduate, graduate and international students.  Additionally, this move positions our FinancialSmarts program to provide timely and critical personal financial management education (i.e. budgeting and saving, credit and debt management, investing and retirement planning, etc.) to our students as they engage in academic planning, including exploring options to fund their education. 

I am also pleased to share that in her new capacity as Senior Associate Director for Financial Aid and Scholarships, Colleen Lindbeck will provide day to day management and oversight of the FinancialSmarts program including direct supervision of Hannah Sadollah (’19, Psychology), Financial Literacy and Education Program Specialist.  Colleen has served as a member of the Financial Literacy and Education Committeesince its inception in 2011 and was instrumental in the development and launch of our FinancialSmarts Grant program – an initiative promoting financial capability and wellness to students with the greatest demonstrated financial need.  In her capacity, first, as the Financial Literacy Student Assistant and then as the Financial Literacy and Education Program Specialist, Hannah has been hugely instrumental in the development, planning and implementation of our signature financial literacy programs including CashCourse, CashCoach, CashClips and Money Smart Week. 

I am confident Colleen, Hannah and the Financial Aid and Scholarships team will take the FinancialSmarts program to new heights and will continue to provide our students with the resources and tools to make informed and effective financial decisions.   

Thank you to our campus partners for their continued support of our financial literacy efforts and a special thank you to the Office of Undergraduate Admissions and Orientation, the Registrar’s Office and the Division of Professional Studies for their generous support of this vision.

Yvette Mozie-Ross, PhD

Vice Provost for Enrollment Management and Planning

Welcome to UMBC!  As an honors university, we take great pride in preparing you, our student, to be successful in all of your pursuits. Managing money is an important part of your daily life and we want to assure that you are well-versed in this important life skill that many find challenging.  

Your journey to financial wellness begins now with our interactive (and entertaining) online FinancialSmarts Cash Course! This multi-module, self-paced course ensures that you are as well-prepared to manage your budgets, bank accounts, assets and debt as you are to master your academic and career interests. To enroll in the online FinancialSmarts Cash Course click here.

Once you have enrolled in the course, you are welcome to complete as many modules as you would like, whenever you choose to do so. However, here's where FinancialSmarts start to pay off … By September 15, 2019:

• If you complete the pre-assessment and one module, your name will be entered in our $100 campus care deposit drawing.

• If you complete the pre-assessment and two or more modules, your name will be entered in our $300 campus card deposit drawing.

• If you complete the pre-assessment and all modules, your name will be entered in our $500 campus card deposit drawing.

Campus card deposits can be used anywhere that you can use your campus card. For example:

-The Bookstore

-Campus food vendors like Outtakes, True Grits, and Salsaritas

-Paying tuition and fees on myUMBC or at SBS

-Campus vending machines

-Print stations

-Local partner businesses

Be sure to complete modules by September 15, 2019 to be entered into the drawings! All drawings will take place on September 16, 2019. So don’t wait...get started now! If you have questions about the online FinancialSmarts Cash Course, please feel free to contact us at financialsmarts@umbc.edu.

Enjoy the remainder of your summer and best wishes for a successful first semester at UMBC!

Sincerely,

Your UMBC FinancialSmarts Team 

As an honors university, we take great pride in preparing you, our student, to be successful in all of your pursuits. Managing money is an important part of your daily life and we want to assure that you are well-versed in this important life skill that many find challenging.  

Your journey to financial wellness begins now with our interactive (and entertaining) online Cash Course! This multi-module, self-paced course ensures that you are as well-prepared to manage your budgets, bank accounts, assets and debt as you are to master your academic and career interests. To enroll in the online Cash Course click 
here.

Once you’re enrolled in the course, you’re welcome to complete as many modules as you’d like….whenever you’d like. But here’s where financial smarts start to pay off….

● If you complete the pre-assessment and one module, your name will be entered in our $100 red card deposit drawing. 
● If you complete the pre-assessment and two or more modules, your name will be entered in our $300 red card deposit drawing. 
● If you complete the pre-assessment and all modules, your name will be entered in our $500 red card deposit drawing. 

All drawings will take place on September 15, 2018. So don’t wait...get started now! If you have questions about the online Cash Course, please feel free to contact us at financialsmarts@umbc.edu.

Enjoy the remainder of your summer and best wishes for a successful first semester at UMBC!

Sincerely,

Your UMBC FinancialSmarts Team

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