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    Unconquered by Debt: Financial Wellness Series

    The Unconquered by Debt financial wellness program offers workshops and coaching sessions throughout the semester. The program helps FSU students make smart financial decisions, avoid common mistakes, build wealth, and save for their future.

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Unconquered by Debt

Welcome to the Gus A. Stavros Center for the Advancement of Free Enterprise and Economic Education at Florida State University. The Center is a member of the Council for Economic Education, and as a Council member, assumes responsibility for furthering economic education both in schools and among community groups in its service area.

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Unconquered by Debt

Unconquered by Debt is a series of workshops developed to promote financial wellness. The goals of the program are to enhance financial literacy and transform decision making so that students become wealth creators. The program will promote balanced financial choices so that students fully understand they are responsible for their current and future lifestyles. The focus is on key life choices: career options, earning, spending, saving, investing, managing credit, evaluating risk, insuring assets, and planning for retirement. The Center seeks to build relationships around campus to promote and implement the program. All workshops will be held at the Stavros Center for Economic Education, 250 S. Woodward Ave. (next to the UPS Store). Food and drinks will be provided at every event.

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Food and Finance

Redesigned for faculty and staff, the goals of the program are to enhance financial literacy and transform decision so that individuals become wealth creators. The program will promote balanced financial choices so that participants understand they are responsible for their current and future lifestyles. The focus is on key life choices: spending, saving, investing, managing credit, evaluating risk, insuring assets, and planning for retirement.

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Common Sense Economics


Common Sense: Economics for Life! Course Package

We are seeking to identify and cooperate with instructors interested in offering the course at their school. For details, please visit the Common Sense Economics web site.

Gus Stavros and Jim Gwartney


FSU Stavros Center Eminent Scholar, James Gwartney, recently had the opportunity to visit with Gus Stavros in his home in St. Petersburg. Everyone at the Center is most appreciative of the support of the Stavros family of our activities through the years.

Alumni Spotlight: Frank Sobczak

May 27, 2026

Frank Sobczak – an FSU alumnus (B.S. Economics ’94) – was recently promoted to Area Vice President of Medical Devices at Abbott, where he has spent 22 years in leadership roles across the cardiovascular space. …

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Before a standing-room-only crowd of more than 200 students, faculty and staff, Dr. Richard Sandor had a fireside chat, moderated by COSSPP Dean Tim Chapin, that traced Dr. Sandor's six-decade career from trading equities as a young economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley, to inventing interest rate futures at the Chicago Board of Trade, to designing the market-based systems that helped solve acid rain and laid the groundwork for global carbon trading.

FSU’s COSSPP Hosts Fireside Chat with Dr. Richard Sandor, "Father of Financial Futures"

May 5, 2026

Florida State University’s College of Social Sciences and Public Policy (COSSPP) hosted a fireside chat and book signing with Richard Sandor, Ph.D., on Thursday, April 9, in the Brian and Renee Murphy Forum of the Herbert Wertheim Center for Business Excellence. Before a standing-room-only crowd of more than 200 …

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COSSPP Announces 2026 Faculty Research, Teaching, and Service Award Recipients. From top left to bottom right: Ziqi Li, Matt Brooks, Carlisle Rainey, Keon-Hyung Lee, Katie Sherron, Alexandra Cockerham, John Reynolds, Meaghan McSorley, Simona Andrei, John Felkner.

COSSPP Announces 2026 Faculty Research, Teaching, Service Award Recipients 

April 30, 2026

The College of Social Sciences and Public Policy has announced its 2026 Faculty Research, Teaching, and Service Award recipients. …

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