Woodbury School of Business Personal Financial Planning (PFP) students Mana Angilau, Kevin Cowan, Alex Graham, Madisen Karlson, and Colton Peck received five of 12 national TD Ameritrade NextGen scholarships worth $5,000 each.
All twelve scholarship winners, including Angilau, Cowan and Karlson, will be in New York City today at 4 p.m. EST to ring the closing bell on the NASDAQ Stock Exchange to celebrate their achievement and to help raise awareness of career opportunities in the financial planning field.
Angilau currently works for Integrated Financial Group, LLC as an Investment Specialist and plans to become a paraplanner and later an advisor. “My dream is to help families and individuals prepare for any financial goals and dreams they may have,” said Angilau. “Eventually I want to run my own firm.”
Cowan moved his family to Utah after receiving great recommendations about UVU’s PFP program. “I will never regret that decision to come to UVU,” said Cowan. “It has been amazing to be a part of this top-notch, nationally ranked PFP program and to be trained, educated, and have the endless experiences and opportunities that are available to PFP students here!” He currently holds a 4.0 GPA and is doing an internship with Ameriprise Financial.
Karlson enrolled at UVU because of the engaged learning, hands-on experience. As part of the program, Karlson has traveled to San Diego; Nashville, Tenessee; and Orlando for professional conferences. She volunteers in the Money Management Resource Center at UVU and Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program. She plans to sit for the Certified Financial Planning exam in March.
The Woodbury School of Business is accredited by AACSB International, the premier business school accrediting body. The PFP program is one of only a limited number of dedicated bachelor programs in PFP located within an AACSB accredited school of business. For more information, visit https://www.uvu.edu/financeeconomics/degrees/index.html.
About the Woodbury School of Business
The Woodbury School of Business (WSB) is the largest business school in the Utah System of Higher Education and is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). The WSB supports a variety of engaged learning projects and programs, including the Entrepreneruship Institute, in which students start their own business. The school is distinguished for its focus on student development, entrepreneurship, global involvement, and innovative teaching. In addition to traditional undergraduate courses of study in disciplines ranging from accounting to marketing, the WSB offers an MBA program that accommodates the schedule of working professionals through evening and weekend classes. Visit www.uvu.edu/woodbury for more information.