Educators from around the Mountain State gathered in Morgantown on Sunday for a weeklong lecture series offered by West Virginia Universities Center for Financial Literacy and Education.
Officials with the John Chambers College of Business and Economics said that Finance University is in its 19th year and that they have had educators from all over attend to learn new financial knowledge. The lecture will be providing expert speakers in the world of finance presenting instruct the teachers on subjects of budgeting, home mortgages, investing, Bitcoin, and Fintech to name a few.
“There are so many students that graduate high school, and they say, ‘I didn’t learn how to balance a checkbook, I don’t know how to budget, all of these basic things I should know as an adult I don’t know, I didn’t learn that in class’” said Amy Pridemore, Director of the Center for Financial Literacy and Education at the John Chambers College of Business and Economics.
