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- Unit 1: Nancy M. Porter, Ph.D., is a Professor and Family Resource Management Specialist with the Clemson University Cooperative Extension Service http://www.clemson.edu/fyd/porter.htm. Her primary areas of expertise are family financial management and consumer education. Prior to joining the faculty at Clemson, Dr. Porter taught at Delta State University in Mississippi and in the Towanda Area Public Schools in Pennsylvania. Dr. Porter completed her B.S. and M.S. in Home Economics Education at Mansfield University in Pennsylvania. Her Ph.D. in Family Resource Management was earned at Virginia Tech.
- Unit 2: Joan Witter worked on the Cooperative Extension staff at Michigan State University for over 20 years. She received both B.S. and M.A. degrees from Michigan State University and is currently Program Leader Emeritus, Extension Family Resource Management Programs.
- Unit 3: Joyce H. Christenbury, M.Ed., CFCS, is a Professor Emerita of Family and Youth Development Department with the Clemson University Cooperative Extension Service. As an Extension family resource management specialist, she provided leadership in the area of family resource management with an emphasis on helping individuals and families develop skills needed to cope with today’s complex marketplace. Professor Christenbury received her undergraduate degree in Home Economics Education from Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC and her masters from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in housing, management, and equipment. Prior to joining the Clemson faculty in 1973, Christenbury taught in the College of Home Economics at the University of Delaware in Newark, Delaware.
- Unit 4: Irene Leech, Ph.D., CFCS, is an associate professor of Consumer Affairs at Virginia Tech and former consumer education specialist for Virginia Cooperative Extension. She teaches in the undergraduate and graduate resource management program at Virginia Tech. Her professional memberships include the Association for Financial Counseling and Planning Education and the American Council on Consumer Interests.
- Unit 5 & 8: Barbara O'Neill, Ph.D., holds the rank of full professor at Cook College, Rutgers University. She was a family and consumer sciences educator in Sussex County, New Jersey from 1978 to 2004 and is currently Extension specialist in Financial Resource Management. She is a certified financial planner (CFP), an accredited financial counselor (AFC), and a certified housing counselor (CHC). Dr. O'Neill has written over 1,500 consumer newspaper articles and over 100 articles and abstracts for professional journals and conference proceedings. She is also the author of five books, three financial case-study books published by Rutgers University, and Saving On A Shoestring and Investing On A Shoestring, trade books published by Dearborn Financial Publishing.
- Unit 6: Patricia Brennan, M.A., a certified financial planner, (CFP) has been a family and consumer sciences educator with Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Morris County since 1981. She is a tenured associate professor at Cook College, Rutgers University. Mrs. Brennan is also an Accredited Financial Counselor (AFC) and a Certified Housing Counselor (CHC). Pat teaches over 80 personal finance and housing classes annually. Her areas of expertise include long-term investing, asset allocation, life-cycle financial planning, and selecting mutual funds. As part of her Cooperative Extension responsibilities, she records a weekly three-minute morning radio program on station WMTR as well as daily radio spots on "Consumer Concerns" on WGHT, Pompton Lakes. She also writes for Morris County newspapers, appears regularly on Cablevision’s cable TV show "Money Counts" and has made guest appearances on CNBC’s "The Money Club" and News 12 New Jersey. She earned a B.S. degree in home economics from Immaculata College and her M.A. in teaching from Montclair State University.
- Unit 7: Constance Y. Kratzer, Ph.D., is an extension specialist in family resource management, Home Economics Extension Department, New Mexico State University. She received her Ph.D. from Michigan State University in 1991. She provides statewide program leadership in the areas of financial management and management of time and energy. Her research has been in the areas of perception of economic well being, planning for retirement by the self-employed, and workplace financial education. She received an Emerging Leaders Award from Michigan State University in 1996.
- Unit 9: Linda Kirk Fox, Ph.D., is Dean and Director of Cooperative Extension at Washington State University. Prior to this, she was Director of the School of Family and Consumer Sciences and Financial Resource Management Specialist at the University of Idaho. Dr. Fox has developed educational programs and materials including the award winning Enhancing the Financial Literacy for Older Youth videoconference and the Idaho Financial Literacy Coalition. Her University of Idaho Cooperative Extension publications include Making Financial Decisions When Divorce Occurs and Estate Planning: An Idaho Guide.
- Unit 10: Jane Schuchardt, Ph.D., is National Program Leader, USDA Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, Washington, DC, the federal partner in the Cooperative Extension System. During 1999, she was Senior Fellow with the National Endowment for Financial Education, Denver. She is a past president of the American Council on Consumer Interests (ACCI).
- Unit 11: This unit was written as a cooperative effort of several staff members of the Office of Investor Education and Assistance at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The primary author was Katherine Philipp, former Investor Education Specialist. Prior to joining the SEC, she was a certified financial planner, a national board member of the National Association of Investors, Inc., and taught personal finance at several colleges in Maryland for 20 years. The Office of Investor Education and Assistance partners with many organizations in their educational programs. Investor protection is the number one goal of the SEC and the best defense against fraud is an educated consumer. For more information visit their Web site at http://www.sec.gov. If you have a complaint or question about your investments call 1-800-732-0330 or e-mail to help@sec.gov.
- Some of the material in this unit is adapted with permission from The Basics of Saving and Investing, a teaching guide developed by the National Institute for Consumer Education (NICE) at Eastern Michigan University, <www.nice.emich.edu/>. Under agreement with NICE, the complete curriculum, with units on Financial Decisions, How Financial Markets Work, Investment Choices, Investment Information, and Investment Fraud, is also posted on the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) Web site for individual investors.
- Personal Finance Instructors of America are also using the curriculum with high school students as part of the Investor Protection Trust’s education campaign with state securities regulators called Financial Literacy 2010. For more information about the campaign and high school programs in your state, go to the Web site http://www.financial-literacy.org or call your state securities regulator.
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