Summer Job+

A new call-to-action for businesses, non-profits, and government to provide pathways to employment for low-income and disconnected youth in the summer of 2012.
Search for summer jobs: http://webapps.dol.gov/SummerJobs/

"TRIO SSS LEADERSHIP CLUB"

TRIO SSS Leadership Club- May 11, 2012, 11 am -  LIB 407

Join us for the TRIO SSS Leadership Club. This is a planning session where the mission and charter will be established in order to gain club recognition from Northeastern Illinois University.

Please register here: triosss@neiu.edu.

Financial Literacy - http://libguides.neiu.edu/MSW2012

What is Money Smart Week?

Money Smart Week is a week-long annual event, now in its 10th year, coordinated by the Chicago Federal Reserve. Money Smart Week seeks to increase financial literacy through "a series of free classes and activities designed to help consumers better manage their personal finances."

NEIU Money Smart Week 2012 events, except where noted in this calendar, will be held in the lower-level classroom (LIB-022) in the Ronald Williams Library.

Tuesday, April 17 @ 9:00a - Library lower-level classroom

Strategic Rules to Follow for Financial Fitness

Learn how to strengthen your finances.

Contact: Jerry Goldstein at (847) 832-9276 or goldstjb@yahoo.com

Location: Library lower-level classroom (LIB-022)

Wednesday, April 18 @ 8:00a - Library lower-level classroom

Choice of Business Entity for Entrepreneurs

Learn the advantages and disadvantages of organizing your business as a sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation, or limited liability company.

Contact: John Bernbom at (773) 442-6019 or j-bernbom@neiu.edu

Location: Library lower-level classroom (LIB-022)

Wednesday, April 18 @ 7:00p - Library lower-level classroom

Starting Up a Business Online

Learn the procedures and tools to get your business going online. Setting up a website, electronic payment and strategies for businesses online.

Contact: Francisco Iacobelli at (773) 442-4728 or f-iacobelli@neiu.edu

Location: Library lower-level classroom (LIB-022)

Monday, April 23 @  9:00a - Library lower-level classroom (LIB-022)

Webcast: International Solutions to Improving Financial Literacy

A panel of international financial literacy experts will address potential solutions to improving financial literacy for citizens in countries around the world that operate under varying economic conditions. The panelists will focus on how global government and financial education leaders, in collaboration with providers, can develop resolutions to positively impact global financial literacy efforts.

Contact: Henry Owen III at (773) 442-4420 or h-owen3@neiu.edu

Tuesday, April 24 @  9:15a - Library lower-level classroom (LIB-022)

Money, Leadership and Change Management

Learn how uncertain monetary policies and the digital economy are creating new opportunities for personal wealth and your own financial management.

Contact: Stephen Grove at (773) 442-5356 or s-grove@neiu.edu

10:45a - Library lower-level classroom (LIB-022)

Self-Employment as a Strategic Choice

Speakers on this panel will provide alternative approaches and ideas for managing your career and increasing your personal wealth.

Contact: Francisco Iacobelli at (773) 442-4728 or f-iacobelli@neiu.edu

12:15p - Library lower-level classroom (LIB-022)

Change Your Life with a Balanced Financial Track

How to plan for financial needs for all age groups and life stages, explore generational attitudes towards money and financial issues.

Contact: Maureen Amos at (773) 442-5010 or m-amos@neiu.edu

Thursday, April 26 @ 11:00a - Library lower-level classroom (LIB-022)

Budget Considerations for a Training Department

This workshop will introduce students to important budgeting elements they should understand if they are part of a training, performance improvement, strategic planning, or organization development group in a business or organization.

Contact: Suzanne Benson at (773) 442-5532 or s-benson1@neiu.edu

Financial Aid and Scholarship Scams

To:                University Community

From:             Maureen Amos, Director of Financial Aid

Date:              March 29, 2012

Re:                 Warning: Financial Aid and Scholarship Scams

If you have to pay money to get money, it's probably a scam.

Recently, an NEIU student was contacted, about a grant opportunity, by an individual who represented himself as being from http://www.grants.gov/. The grant representatives were not calling from grants.gov, but from a Washington, DC number. The caller assured the student that the grant opportunity was a legitimate award and that the student had been selected to receive the grant. However, in order to participate in the grant opportunity, the student needed to wire $310. The NEIU student was asked for his checking account information. The Northeastern Illinois University Financial Aid Office or the U.S. Department of Education would never ask for checking account numbers or credit card numbers as payment for any financial assistance.

Every year, several hundred thousand students and parents are defrauded by scholarship scams. The victims of these scams lose more than $100 million annually. Scam operations often imitate legitimate government agencies, grant-giving foundations, education lenders and scholarship matching services, using official-sounding names containing words like "National," "Federal," "Foundation," or "Administration."

FinAid.org has some valuable tips to help identify such scholarship scams and how to protect yourself from scholarship scams. Please visit their site for ‘Common Scams’. http://www.finaid.org/scholarships/scams.phtml. 

Report Financial Aid or Scholarship Scams to:

US Department of Education Office of the Inspector General
Inspector General's Hotline 1-800-MIS-USED or 1-202-205-5400
State Attorney General's Office
Chicago Office: 1-800-386-5438
http://illinoisattorneygeneral.gov/consumers/scholars.html

Changes in the Federal Student Aid Programs

The NEIU Financial Aid Office would like to invite students and other members of the NEIU community to attend one of the two Spring Town Halls highlighting changes in the Federal Student Aid Programs.
Agenda items include:

• 2012-13 Changes in Verificatioin Requirements - Don't be afraid of Verification
• Repeat Coursework Calculations - Knowing the impact on your Eligibility
• Unofficial Withdrawal vs. Official Withdrawal - What is the difference?

The dates are as follows:

• Wednesday, March 28, Golden Eagles, 1:00pm
• Thursday, April 5, Student Union 217, 1:00pm

For more details, please call the Financial Aid Telephone Center at (773) 442-5016.

Rosetta Stone Program

If you want to learn Spanish or are taking Spanish courses, TRIO SSS now offers the Rosseta Stone Program.

What is Rosetta Stone
"Rosseta Stone, Inc. is changing the way the world learns languages. Rosseta Stone provides interactive solutions that are acclaimed for the speed and power to unlock the natural language-learning ability in everyone. Available in more than 30 languages, Rosseta Stone language-learning solutions are used by schools, organizations and millions of individuals in over 150 countries throughout the world. The Company was founded in 1992 on the core beliefs that learning a language should be natural and instinctive and that interactive technology can replicate and activate the immersion method powerfully for learners of any age."

Rosseta Stone.

LAPTOPS

We have Laptops available for use for TRIO students. You can check them out and use them within the LIBRARY. Bring a STATE I.D. or Driver's License to LIB 412 and ask the staff, or call us at (773) 442-4971.