Community Colleges and Financial Wellness Resources: What Financial Wellness Information Do Community Colleges Make Available on Their Websites?
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-2025
Abstract
Over the past two decades, community colleges have increasingly implemented financial wellness programs to support community college students’ needs, including becoming more knowledgeable about budgeting, credit, and student loans, as well as how to navigate adult life and related expenses. However, no studies have explored whether community colleges integrate financial wellness resources into their websites and which types of information these institutions may include. Subsequently, this brief scanned 1,585 community college websites, locating 219 institutional (.edu) webpages on community college websites. Content analysis revealed that public community colleges were much more likely to publish financial wellness webpages, while most community colleges published asynchronous resources and links to educational software that do not require any institutional human resources. Implications for financial wellness programming in community colleges are addressed.
Publication Title
Community College Journal of Research and Practice
Recommended Citation
Simonds, Richard; Taylor, Z W.; Smith, Mallorie; Becker, Jenny; Marx, Andrew; Nixon, Dez; Ray, Sara; Glass, Sophie; Wheeler, Brandan; Miller, Amanda; Blakeney, Aly; Hughes, Steven; and Cerebe, Tim, "Community Colleges and Financial Wellness Resources: What Financial Wellness Information Do Community Colleges Make Available on Their Websites?" (2025). PCOM Scholarly Works. 2327.
https://digitalcommons.pcom.edu/scholarly_papers/2327
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10668926.2025.2527921
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This article was published in Community College Journal of Research and Practice.
The published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1080/10668926.2025.2527921.
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