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This report summarizes grant activities, student involvement, an assessment of project
objectives, and financial accounting of grant expenditures for the Higher One Grant
awarded to Boise State University for grant period August 15-December 15, 2015. This
grant award was utilized to implement Boise State’s first-ever campus-wide financial
awareness campaign entitled the “Buckless Broncos Campaign”.
Grant Activities
Over the course of fall semester, three student financial literacy interns met regularly with the
program manager to develop programming for the Buckless Broncos Campaign. The following
were the campaign activities implemented:
1. September Topic: Spending
The Smart Spending Program featured an interactive display with items such as a Starbucks
Coffee cup, a bag of coffee grounds, fast food such as Chick-fil-A, a homemade sandwich,
movie tickets, and other things that students spend a lot of money on. Each item will list the cost
per unit, per month, and per year of purchasing the item. There will also be a chart with a simple
example budget for students. Students will also have a chance to spin a wheel and answer a
financial question. The questions are meant to get the students thinking about finances. Over 120
students stopped by the display. Total students who participated in the spinning wheel activity
and were quizzed on their personal finances knowledge: 98.
Smart Spending Program Objectives
Raise student awareness of how they spend their extra money
Teach students to think about spending in relation to income
Give students ideas to start saving money
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2. October: Borrowing
The Know What You Owe Program created an opportunity for students to complete an online
survey about borrowing behavior and beliefs. Marketing for the survey was done with sidewalk
chalk around campus and over social media posts. Flyers were also distributed on campus and
interns were standing by with iPads for students to take the survey right then to receive some
promotional items in return. Students who completed the survey during the month were entered
to win two campus bookstore gift cards, chosen from a random drawing among all entries. Over
300 flyers were passed out over three days of in-person distribution and promoting of the
Buckless Broncos Campaign. Survey respondents: 93.
Know What You Owe Program Objectives
Raise awareness of student’s borrowing behavior and beliefs
Help students be prepared for the future payments/consequences of loans
Promote the Buckless Broncos Campaign among the student body
3. November: Financial Goal Setting
“Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?” was a trivia game event for students. Held on campus, teams
of students competed against each other over three rounds of personal finance trivia questions.
The winning team won prizes and was entered to win the grand prize. Marketing for this event
was largely promoted on social media. Total student participants: 24.
“Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?” Program Objectives
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Teach students about financial goal setting, the importance of spending plans, being an
informed consumer, and understanding the dangers of bad debt
Promote the Buckless Broncos campaign
Increase student awareness of financial literacy resources
4. Group Presentations
Alongside monthly programming listed above, the financial literacy intern team designed a
presentation entitled “How to Avoid Being a Buckless Bronco” that combined all three monthly
topics and included various interactive activities for attendees to participate in.
The intern team presented this four times to audiences including first year residential
students, Trio students, and a Kinesiology class. Total attendees: 108 students.
Assessment of Project Objectives
Identified objectives for the Buckless Broncos Campaign included the following:
Increase student awareness of personal financial health
Increase student awareness of financial literacy resources
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Increase student engagement with financial literacy program development and
project management
Establish sustainable roles for peer-led student financial healthinitiatives
Assessment of first objective (increasing awareness of personal financial health) was
measured by the number of students who participated in campaign programs. From active
student participation in Buckless Bronco programs, a total of 394 students were reached.
Assessment of the second objective (increasing student awareness of financial literacy
resources) was measured by the 394 actively participating students as well as the more than the
500 students that were reached over social media, website visits, and flyers distributed around
campus, directing students to the Buckless Broncos website:
http://deanofstudents.boisestate.edu/buckless-broncos/
This website was updated regularly to highlight the present month’s financial topic and
promote campaign programs and engagement opportunities. Data analytics were used to
capture web-based reaches and over 200 flyers were passed out.
Assessment of the third and fourth objectives were measured by the participation and
leadership of the three student interns during the design and implementation of all campaign
activities. All three unpaid interns but in 5-10 hours every week during the campaign. They have
continued to collect information via program surveys regarding what type of programming/topics
they would like to see offered by future peer-led programming on financial health/literacy.
Examples of comments from student participants are below:
“I would like to receive information on how to reduce my debt and how to come up
with a good budget for school.”
“I would love to get a few different plans on how to budget or how to manage money like
saving it and maybe even investing.”
“I would like to learn how to do taxes and other financial things I will have to use in the
future.”
“Boise State should start a personal finance club for students interested in learning
more about these topics.”
This campaign has brought a face to financial literacy topics on campus. Additional groups
on campus have requested a Buckless Broncos presentation for next semester and we will
continue to offer internship opportunities to students to drive the next set of initiatives based on
student feedback from the campaign.
The Office of the Dean of Students will continue to house peer-led financial literacy
initiatives and will be partnering up with academic colleges, new student programs, housing,
admissions, financial aid and student financials offices to provide ongoing outreach to
students as well as promoting additional financial literacy resources for the entire campus
community.
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Financial Accounting
Items purchased Date Cost Event Supplies Promo material Marketing
750.00 1,750.00 500.00
10 $10 Starbucks gift cards 9/23/2015 100.00 100.00
Candy 9/23/2015 50.00 50.00
Flyer stands 9/16/2015 45.00 45.00
Color printing (flyers) 9/16/2015 175.00 175.00
Cupcakes for Trio 10/7/2015 36.90 36.90
Staplers 10/8/2015 175.00 175.00
Pens 10/8/2015 100.00 100.00
Drawstring bags 10/16/2015 1,475.26 1,475.26
4 $50 bookstore gift cards 10/29/2015 200.00 200.00
Logo shirts 10/16/2015 90.00 90.00
Nov program sign 11/13/2015 69.00 69.00
Vinyl banner 11/13/2015 140.00 140.00
Room charges 11/16/2015 100.00 100.00
Food for Nov program 11/16/2015 231.24 231.24
Food for HRL East 10/26/2015 75.00 75.00
Food for HRL West 11/17/2015 75.00 75.00
Grant balance (118.14) (0.26) (19.00)
TOTAL SPENT 3,137.40 868.14 1,750.26 519.00
