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

Collegetown Student Survey 2018

What do you like best about Baltimore?
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Want to stay in Baltimore after graduation?

Complete the Survey and you could WIN an Amazon Echo!

Baltimore Collegetown Network is conducting our Student Survey. Your feedback helps us create programs and services to make Baltimore an even better place to study, work, and live.

The survey is distributed by the Baltimore Collegetown Network, a group of 14 area institutions that work to enhance the academic and social lives of college students in Baltimore.

Collegetown is extending the deadline for the survey. Please submit your responses by May 15. Responses are confidential.