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Why Our Financial Literacy Programming Died (And How Yours Can Succeed), Wendy C. Doucette
Why Our Financial Literacy Programming Died (And How Yours Can Succeed), Wendy C. Doucette
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This is the story of a financial literacy endeavor that sputtered, surged, and then died. While it did not succeed at my institution, I share the story and the resources in the hope that its successes and failures might be of use to others.
Although I had already been a professional librarian for seven years when I took my new position as Graduate Research and Instruction Librarian at East Tennessee State University near the beginning of fall semester 2014, I had never worked in public services. Fortunately, I had been a teacher, received professional training in pedagogy, and was comfortable …