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A college student’s guide to low-risk investments

Virginia Doherty, Columnist September 20, 2024

If all you know about investing comes from “The Wolf of Wall Street” or your eighth-grade home economics class, then this is for you. Investing doesn’t have to be picking stocks and putting huge...

Students walk around Blastoff on August 18, 2024.

A first year’s guide to Kent State University

Matt Kiraly, Columnist September 4, 2024

Do you feel that, Flashes? The start of a new semester has arrived once again. And with that, a new wave of first year students flock to campus to experience the university's culture for the first...

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Money management made easy for college students with budgeting apps

Emily Mays Reporter May 8, 2021

By utilizing the many budgeting apps available, students have the opportunity to gain control of their finances and spending habits. The apps also allow for students to save money and even serve as a way...

Representative Maxine Waters(C) (D-CA) speaks to the media during an ongoing protest at the Brooklyn Center Police Department in Brooklyn Centre, Minnesota on April 17, 2021. - Police officer, Kim Potter, who shot dead Black 20-year-old Daunte Wright in a Minneapolis suburb after appearing to mistake her gun for her Taser was arrested April 14 on manslaughter charges.

Waters calls for protesters to ‘get more confrontational’ if no guilty verdict is reached in Derek Chauvin trial

Chandelis Duster, CNN April 20, 2021

(CNN) -- Rep. Maxine Waters on Saturday night called for protesters to "stay on the street" and "get more confrontational" if former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is acquitted in the killing...

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REVIEW: Budgeting apps

Aaron McDade November 20, 2018

Budgeting is arguably one of the most important parts of living on one’s own, but it can also be the trickiest. We're living in the digital age and there are hundreds of budgeting apps to choose from. To...

Financial workshops assist students

Julie Riedel March 17, 2016

The Center for Undergraduate Excellence hosted a financial wellness workshop, Getting Ahead on the Job, on March 17 from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.The workshop helped students find a job after college and succeed....

Financial aid speaker provides insight, advice on scholarships

Maggie Wachtel October 15, 2015

Financial aid counselor Pamela LaFleur offered students financial advice and tips on preparing for their future Thursday in the Schwartz Center.The presentation titled “How to Build Your Financial Fitness”...