Our story
The Higher Education Financial Wellness Alliance was created as a result of the success of the annual Higher Education Financial Wellness Summit (originally known as the National Summit on Collegiate Financial Wellness), which was first held in 2014.
The initial primary objective behind the Summit was to bring practitioners together to explore how institutions can better provide access to financial education material that would help address issues related to student debt and a lack of financial literacy among college students. While it is still a core piece of the Summit, the programming has expanded to address barriers to degree completion that stem from students’ financial issues, such as food insecurity, homelessness, and overall financial fragility.
While the Summit has been a positive venue for bringing together financial wellness champions from around the country, there is now a clear demand for the opportunity to continue the conversations throughout the rest of the year. This is the reason for the Alliance: to be the premiere forum for conversations related to financial wellness in higher education.
Mission
The Higher Education Financial Wellness Alliance is a network of professionals and institutions driven to advancing student success through financial wellness.
Vision
The Higher Education Financial Wellness Alliance will provide the tools and resources to support practitioners and institutions in their financial wellness efforts.The Alliance seeks to become the premiere forum for networking within the higher education financial wellness community.