Managing Your Money

The Office of Student Financial Aid & Scholarships feels that it is very important for you and your family to make sound financial decisions while attending BRCC. In order to assist you with financial planning we have provided you the opportunity to view what we believe are comprehensive yet easy to understand resources.

Personal Finance Educational Material

BRCC has partnered with the National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE) to offer a custom financial planning web site. The NEFE CashCourse website is designed specifically to help BRCC students obtain money management skills and provide access to personal financial planning resources that are necessary to build a healthy financial future.

CashCourse includes dynamic content with resources which provide optimal money management skills for college students in areas such as:

Financial Awareness Basics (FAB)

Whether you’re heading off to college or about to earn your degree, Financial Awareness Basics (FAB) provides everything you need to make smart decisions about your financial future. Along with tips and tools for managing your money, we help you prepare for success. Educational Credit Management Corporation provides this web site to assist individuals with financial literacy.

Money Management Videos

The following tutorials are provided by EdFund. EdFund is a nonprofit corporation that provides student loan guarantee services.

Less is More: Smart Budgeting: focuses on short-term financial planning
Securing Your Financial Future: discusses long-term financial planning
Managing Credit Cards- Planning to Prosper: provides valuable information about credit cards and credit reports

Free Credit Report Information

Access information regarding your free credit reports. The Federal Trade Commission provides a broad base of consumer information to assist you with maintaining a good, clean credit report.

AnnualCreditReport.com is the official site to help consumers to obtain their free annual credit report online.

Consumer Credit Reporting Companies

Computer security threats are everywhere and it is important to be vigilant in protecting your computer system as well as your identity and personal assets. Safe computing guidelines can be found at the College’s Computing Security Site

Contact Information:

Office of Student Financial Aid & Scholarships
Houff Student Center
Box 80
Weyers Cave, VA 24486
E-mail: finaid@brcc.edu
Local Exchanges: (540) 453-2241/213-7027/941-3747
Other areas in VA: 8888-750-2722, ext. 2241


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