My Current Meeting Updates

Wow, it sure has been a great past couple of weeks as far as my meetings have been moving along. Last week I met with Jared Tippets, the Director of New Student Programs, and he helped me out so much more than I could imagine. First off, I was thrilled about how excited he was after I went over my presentation and the key points I wanted to get across to students. He was grateful that a student was finally taking the initiative to talk amongst their peers about financial literacy besides the adult groups, such as the Federal Credit Union.

He knew the students would be much more willing to listen to me instead, so he agreed to send out a mass e-mail to every UK 101 instructor encouraging  them to have their students attend my presentations as part of  the class curriculum. I also followed up with some of them giving them a personal e-mail from me as well. Once I have a room reserved for several dates and times in September/October, he is going to let the teachers know and I am going to make flyers advertising them as well. He also informed me that this year the Resident Life Staff is making the RAs have their residents attend five presentations on campus. I am going to try everything I can to be a part of that requirement.

Also, Jared is very close with other Administators and Directors on campus and gave me a list of the main contacts for Residence Life, Athletics, the University Health Service Directors, and the Alcohol and Health Education Department Office.I already set up a meeting with Andrew Smith, the Director of Alcohol and Health Education, and he seemed very excited to talk to me about a possible partnership.

I am super excited and ready to make progress and really get involved as much as I can on campus. I'll be sure to keep you posted with everything that happens in the next week!

-GO CATS