UC Irvine Extension Awarded Grant to Translate Free, Online Financial Planning Course into Spanish.Translation Enables Underserved Populations All Over the World Access to Financial Planning Financial planning Evaluating the investing and financing options available to a firm. Planning includes attempting to make optimal decisions, projecting the consequences of these decisions for the firm in the form of a financial plan, and then comparing future performance against Information IRVINE, Calif. -- The University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). , Irvine today announced the addition of a free online Spanish course to its Open Courseware See OpenCourseWare. Web site, "Fundamentals of Financial Planning" with the help of a grant by the Certified Financial Planner Certified Financial Planner (CFP) A person who has passed examinations accredited by the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, showing that the person is able to manage a client's banking, estate, insurance, investment, and tax affairs. Board of Standards, Inc. (CFP 1. CFP - Constraint Functional Programming. 2. CFP - Communicating Functional Processes. 3. CFP - Call For Papers (for a conference). Board). The translation of this course provides online financial planning information to underserved consumers, free of charge. "Previously, the English version of the program had been developed with the generous aid of a CFP Board grant in 2006, which allowed the program to be offered free through the University's OpenCourseWare (OCW OCW Open Course Ware OCW Overseas Contract Worker OCW Out Caching With (geocaching) ) site," explained Dr. Gary W. Matkin, dean of Continuing Education continuing education: see adult education. continuing education or adult education Any form of learning provided for adults. In the U.S. the University of Wisconsin was the first academic institution to offer such programs (1904). at University of California, Irvine. "We're excited to translate the program into Spanish and make it available to Spanish speakers all over the world." Available now on the University's OCW Web site at http://ocw.uci.edu/courses/, the Spanish translation of the course helps break the language barrier for many students who desire to learn financial planning basics such as: budgeting, calculating individual net worth, investment basics, and college planning, and much more. UC Irvine Extension's course is part of the University's growing Open CourseWare (OCW) movement which allows self-learners to view and utilize University of California-quality materials and complete courses, at any time and at no cost. The Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. is a regulatory organization that creates and enforces uniform standards of competency COMPETENCY, evidence. The legal fitness or ability of a witness to be heard on the trial of a cause. This term is also applied to written or other evidence which may be legally given on such trial, as, depositions, letters, account-books, and the like. 2. , practice and ethics ethics, in philosophy, the study and evaluation of human conduct in the light of moral principles. Moral principles may be viewed either as the standard of conduct that individuals have constructed for themselves or as the body of obligations and duties that a of financial planners Financial Planner A qualified investment professional who assists individuals and corporations meet their long-term financial objectives by analyzing the client's status and setting a program to achieve these goals. . Its mission is to benefit the public by granting the CFP([R]) certification and upholding it as the recognized standard of excellence for personal financial planning. As the continuing-education arm of a prestigious university, UC Irvine Extension is dedicated to providing a transforming learning experience for students and teachers, offering thousands of exciting courses and programs to local, regional and global constituencies via online curriculum as well as through on campus classes. UC Irvine Extension offers a rich array of academic and personal development programs to support a diverse audience from a wide selection of academic programs to numerous campus events and activities. UC Irvine Extension continues to provide a university-level learning experience to all students. About UC Irvine's OpenCourseWare Initiative: The University of California, Irvine was the first University of California campus--and West Coast University--to join the OCW Consortium. UC Irvine's membership in the OCW Consortium is consistent with its public- and land-grant missions and its desire to play a significant role in contributing to the social welfare of the state, the nation and the world. Open educational resources Open educational resources (OER) are an Internet empowered worldwide community effort to create an education commons. The term "open educational resources" was first adopted at UNESCO's 2002 Forum on the Impact of Open Courseware for Higher Education in Developing Countries (OER OER Office of Extramural Research (US NIH) OER Open Educational Resources OER Officer Evaluation Report OER Optimized Edge Routing OER Office of Energy Research OER Owners' Equivalent Rent OER Operating Expense Ratio ) showcase the University's high quality education and makes courses and course materials free for everyone in the world. UC Irvine's OCW is a large-scale, Web-based resource that houses educational assets that are discoverable, searchable, modifiable, and, best of all, free and easily available. Through the OCW Movement, UC Irvine provides university-quality courses and learning assets to populations of self learners that are underserved and in many cases, unable to participate in formal education at a university. This site also offers access to UC Irvine's online continuing education offerings. For its leadership of the OCW movement, University of California, Irvine has been identified as one of the top 10 providers of free online courses. The ranking, published by Education-Portal.com, recognized UC Irvine for providing high-quality, university-level courses, free of charge, to learners around the globe. For more information about UC Irvine's OCW initiative, visit http://ocw.uci.edu/ or e-mail ocw@unx.uci.edu. About the University of California, Irvine: The University of California, Irvine is a top-ranked university dedicated to research, scholarship and community service. Founded in 1965, UCI is among the fastest-growing University of California campuses, with more than 27,000 undergraduate and graduate students and about 1,400 faculty members. The second-largest employer in dynamic Orange County, UCI contributes an annual economic impact of $3.3 billion. For more UCI news, visit www.today.uci.edu. |
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