Financial First Aid: Episode 4 – Freelancing Your Way to Financial Stability
Important planning and financial considerations for students contemplating supplemental and full-time endeavors.
Financial First Aid: Episode 3 – Student Loans & C.A.R.E.S
Addressing confusion over the student loan payment deferral feature of the CARES act, and advice on alternative payment plans.
Financial First Aid: Episode 2 – Managing a Stack of Problems
Taking a risk management approach to dealing with a multitude of problems occurring all at once.
Recapturing a Simpler Past for Higher Education
As dangerous and disruptive as this moment is, it presents an opportunity for higher education to pause, pivot and return to its simpler and truer purpose.
Financial First Aid: Episode 1 – Renegotiating a Troubled Loan in a Troubled Time
In response to a student query, how to go about requesting payment deferrals and interest rate accommodations during this unsettled period.
CARES Doesn’t Care Enough about Student Loans
The recently enacted Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act does not alleviate the severity of the student loan crisis.
A Kind Word in a Student’s Dark Moment
For instructors today, distance learning is more than just assigning lessons and grading papers that are uploaded to Canvas or Blackboard. It’s interacting with a generation of students who are trying to comprehend all that’s happening.
How to Prepare Your Family for the Worst-Case Scenario
Mitchell D. Weiss shares a window into what he, and so many of us are doing during the COVID-19 pandemic to prepare for that "just in case" situation.
Online and On-Call
Mitchell D. Weiss shares a few suggestions for those who are approaching online and on-call education for the first time.
Entrepreneurs: Have You Thought About Financial Planning for Your New Venture?
Financial planning—which can take the form of the annual operating plan and budget described earlier, or a rolling forecast of longer-term projections—is an essential part of managing any business.