Waynesburg University’s Student Activities Board (SAB) and Business Department are sponsoring the Money Matters Life Skills Series for 2026. All of the lectures will be held on Mondays at noon, beginning on Jan. 26 and ending on March 16. The series will include a variety of topics ranging from banking, employee benefits and student loans.

William Stough, the program director for the Master of Business Administration and an associate professor of business administration, will be speaking at the overview and wrap-up sessions.

“The Money Matters series was developed to give students a chance to learn more about individual money concepts instead of the business concepts we teach in our courses here,” Stough said. “We went out and found people that were good at that particular area to allow them to talk.”

Matthew Stokan, the university’s director of financial aid, will be speaking on Feb. 23 about student loans.

“It’s primarily geared towards graduating students,” Stokan said. “I usually try to focus on reminding them, if they’ve had federal loans, that they’re going into repayment unless they go back to school, and then what the repercussions are once they graduate.”

Students can use the series to fulfill their life skills requirement. The course is advised by Pat Bristor who oversees the Student Activities Board, and students are required to attend the lectures as well as complete some weekly assignments.

“I developed Money Matters years ago as a program, not as a class. Several years ago, I brought it back with the help of Professor Stough,” Bristor said. “It was developed as a program for any student, and then the life skills kind of tagged on.”

Each assignment is tailored toward the specific topic of that week. For the lecture on banking, students are asked to keep a budget of their expenses for a month to become accustomed to their own finances.

“Often, people are finding that they didn’t realize how much they were spending,” Bristor said. “They do it for a month because some of them have car insurance or credit card payments.”

More information on the Money Matters series can be found on myConnect.