USA Funds Life Skills® is a flexible educational program that will equip student service personnel and instructors to teach their students to manage their time and money wisely while they are on campus and after graduation. The program helps students understand basic strategies for managing their finances and for completing their degree work in a timely manner and supports efforts by financial-aid professionals to be good stewards of their institutions’ education-loan-default rates. USA Funds Life Skills also supports institutions’ student-retention initiatives.

The workshop covers five independent yet interrelated modules. Each module includes an instructor training manual, a student skills book, presentation slides, a video and an interactive CD-ROM with student skill-building activities. The five modules include:

• Module 1: Get a Grip on Your Finances — Smart Spending for Students.

• Module 2: Seek out Financial Aid — Funding Resources and Financial Obligations.

• Module 3: Work Hard but Smart — How to Be Successful in School and Graduate on Time.

• Module 4: Take Control of Your Future — Finishing School and Repaying Your Loans.

• Module 5: Now That You Are About to Graduate — Taking Control of Your Life.