For Our Campus Partners
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Wave 1 focused on the students’ available resources: family background, parental roles, and financial socialization while growing up at home and during the first-year in college; their current understanding of personal finance (e.g., financial knowledge, attitude, behaviors); and multiple dimensions of well-being (e.g., academic, psychological, physical).
The APLUS sample includes 2,098 first-year students enrolled at the University of Arizona in Spring 2008. Click here to see Wave 1 Summary or download a copy of the APLUS Wave 1 Final Report here.
Following are some preliminary statistics for the economic impact study (Wave 1.5), conducted in Spring 2009 to examine how the2008 global economic crisis affected the finances and well-being of 748 APLUS students:
Mean GPA: 3.3 (Figure 1: GPA.pdf)
Males: 34.5% (Figure 2: Gender.pdf)
Females: 65.5%
In-state: 71.8% (Figure 3: Students.pdf)
Out-of-state: 24.9%
International: 3.3%
More information about the economic impact study (Wave 1.5) can be obtained by contacting Dr. Joyce Serido at aplus@cals.arizona.edu. -
How are UA students coping with the economic recession? We launched Wave 1.5 in spring 2009, collecting data from 748 APLUS students to find out. And on November 18, 2009, we held the second annual APLUS forum and presented the preliminary findings to 40+ leaders from across campus and the community. Among the attendees were Arizona state Senator Debbie McCune Davis, who said that she intends to use the data from the study in discussions with her colleagues, Ted Beck, president of the National Endowment for Financial Education, who provided funding for the study and members of the press.
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For more information about the study and our findings, download a copy of the Wave 1.5 report.
