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    Unconquered by Debt: Spring 2025 Financial Wellness Series

    Unconquered by Debt: Spring 2025 Financial Wellness Series The Unconquered by Debt program is offering its Spring Financial Wellness Series to FSU students every Tuesday and Wednesday at various times in the Stavros Center for Economic Education, beginning January 21.

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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.

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Economics Students Awarded Outstanding Student Awards

May 19, 2025

Undergraduate students from FSU’s Department of Economics — Max Blumenfeld, Ilya Korolev, Ryder Lambert, and Synnove Mikkelsen — were awarded scholarships for demonstrating academic excellence in their core courses and upper-division electives. …

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FSU Expands Unconquered by Debt Program to Further Student Financial Literacy

May 15, 2025

FSU’s Gus A. Stavros Center for the Advancement of Free Enterprise and Economic Education is expanding Unconquered by Debt, a financial wellness program that enhances financial literacy and transforms decision making so that students become wealth creators, thanks to new support from the Office of the Provost. …

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Spring 2025 Graduation Celebration

May 7, 2025

Graduates, families, faculty, and staff gathered in the Bellamy Atrium on Friday, May 2, to celebrate the College of Social Sciences and Public Policy’s newest graduates. …

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