The Hull College of Business is at the forefront of helping your high school-aged students transition into both college and adulthood. In today’s 2 Questions for the Dean segment, Dean Thompson explains how students are getting an early start to college and life.
ABD: So, how does your dual enrollment program work?
HULL: So, Augusta University has a dual enrollment program with the high schools and where the high school student can take college classes, given that they meet certain admissions criteria. It is at no cost to the students. It’s an opportunity for high school students to again, get a leg up by taking a couple of classes here and there.
And so, one of the things that the Hull College has done is we’ve offered one of the social science courses, the intro to economics.
The state of Georgia passed that there needs to be a new financial literacy competency for high school students, which I think is great.
So, we revised our economics course to be more of an economics of financial literacy course, and that is a course that we will start to offer this coming fall as a dual-enrolled course, so it meets the high school requirements, but a student can actually come away with college credits.
ABD: What are you hoping that the students learn from college-level financial literacy?
HULL: Really, I want students to come away understanding how individual decisions can impact the aggregate, how to manage their money and budget their money, and an understanding of expenses and the time value of money. A lot of times, students don’t think through all of the options or the alternatives, and that can be costly to them.
