Assistant Professor Melody Harvey touches on how college courses are improving the financial literacy of students.
Media Mentions
News clips and media mentions featuring experts from the School of Human Ecology
How payday loans in Wisconsin hit borrowers (PBS; Harvey)
Assistant Professor Melody Harvey discusses the potential downfalls of payday loans and how this can affect a variety of people, regardless of financial status.
Learning to cope: COVID-19 exacerbates growing youth mental health challenges (Capital Times; Thomas)
Throughout the past two years of isolations and chances of illness due to COVID imposed a lot of stress on people. Experts, including Assistant Professor Alvin Thomas, discuss growing mental health challenges among youth.
Cooking school lunches from scratch can fix labor and supply issues (Washington Post; Gaddis)
School cafeterias are losing funding, resulting in a decrease in healthy meals available for students. Associate Professor Jennifer Gaddis (Jane Rafferty Thiele Faculty Fellow) advocates that cooking from scratch offers a solution to this issue by enabling the farm-to-school supply chain.
Advocacy initiative dedicated to state’s youngest children, families set to make lasting impact (WisBusiness; Navsaria)
Raising Wisconsin is an advocacy group working to change early care, education and well-being of Wisconsin’s infants and toddlers. Clinical Associate Professor Dipesh Navsaria commented on how vital programs like these are to our community.
Meet The 2022 Class Of Truman Scholars (forbes.com)
Robb on U.S. Tax System: What if the government filled out your tax form for you? (Wisconsin Examiner)
Assistant Professor Cliff Robb commented on the complicated process of filing taxes and potential improvements to the system.