As part of Temple’s renewed efforts to help students reduce and manage debt, four financial literacy courses have been designed to help students understand the complexities of college financing and to promote responsible budgeting. The courses explore topics such as taxes, savings, estate planning, major purchases, credit cards, interest rates and investments.

Temple’s Center for Neural Decision Making has earned a grant from the Advertising Research Foundation to evaluate responses to television ads in order predict their sales performance.

Gamification — using gaming elements, mechanics and frameworks in non-game contexts — is thriving at Temple, with efforts underway at the university, college and departmental level. Management Information Systems and Intellectual Heritage faculty who use the approach to promote engagement and learning in their courses have seen positive results.

Students who manage the William C. Dunkelberg Owl Fund — a hands-on approach to investment education at the Fox School of Business — have shifted from conducting mock trades to actual investing. Last semester, Owl Fund managers made 14 recommendations for investment, approving nine stock purchases and rejecting five.