These scholarships are generously sponsored by the Rauch Foundation, which supports and promotes financial preparedness of rising generations of students by supporting schools in the delivery of financial literacy programs.
To apply for a scholarship, follow these steps:
Please note, the above steps ensure you complete the correct application, if they are not followed, you may be required to apply again.
The goal of this online, asynchronous course is to increase the financial literacy knowledge and instructional capability of educators through targeted training on personal finance topics. Due to the generosity of the Rauch Foundation, twenty scholarships are available for our 8-week graduate course that will be offered from May 6 to June 28, 2024.
These scholarships are only available for middle and high school educators from the following states: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
The deadline for scholarship applications is April 25, 2024. Scholarships will be awarded on a rolling admissions basis.
The scholarship covers 100% of the tuition expense and is worth $1,500. These scholarships are competitive, our Center typically receives 3 applications for each available scholarship.
Teachers who complete the training will have the confidence, skills and curriculum tools to successfully train their students in financial literacy topics. This financial literacy boot camp will cover saving and investing, credit reports and scores, credit and debt, managing risk, income and careers-in short, the financial knowledge needed to navigate daily life and how to bring this important knowledge to your middle & high school students.
Our Center has taught this course to middle & high school educators since 2011. The Center’s innovative programs and curriculum has already trained over 1,000 educators and our programming has been recognized by the White House, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the FDIC and by President Obama’s Advisory Council on Financial Capability. The course has also been the subject of two studies showing the impact of the instruction (see Research Report and Prepped for Success).
The course uses the Jump$tart Financial Foundations for Educators Model for a portion of its curriculum programming. This educational model was originally developed by the Jump$tart Coalition, the National Endowment for Financial Education, the Council for Economic Education, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Family Economics and Financial Education, Junior Achievement, the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of the Treasury. The Center was one of five organizations chosen to pilot this education programming (three-year pilot ran from 2011-2013).
The course is one of the few places in the nation where an educator can earn a master’s degree credit in learning how to teach personal finance. Educators who successfully complete the course will receive 3 graduate degree credits from Champlain College. The Center’s research on the course programming clearly shows the major impact that trained educators can have by improving their students’ financial knowledge and behaviors. Based on national survey data, high school students who received personal finance education by our trained teachers (in a 2015 report) had “high financial literacy”, on par with older Generation Xers (age 35 to 49) and outperformed Millennials (age 18 to 34). Teachers who took this course also reported positive material changes in their own lives and personal finance management as well.
For registration questions contact: cfl@champlain.edu.
To apply for a scholarship for this class, fill out the application.