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Financial Planning Center and
Lectureship Established by
Rob and Mary Logan Hoxton
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(L-R) Dr. Ben Martz, Dr. Mary Hendrix,
Mary Logan Hoxton and Rob Hoxton.
Shepherd University will soon be home
to the new Center for Financial Education
and the Hoxton Endowed Lectureship
for Financial Planning thanks to a
$120,000 donation by Rob and Mary
Logan Hoxton.
The Hoxtons are providing $20,000
in first-year seed money to create the
center, which will promote financial education
by creating curriculum and activities,
raising money for scholarships,
conducting research and offering financial
planning education to the community.
The couple also donated $100,000 to
create the Hoxton Endowed Lectureship
in Financial Planning.
“We believe that education is really
important, financial literacy should be
spread around, and students can help
provide some of that education in the
community,” says Mary. “It’s a win-win.
The students are learning and hopefully
reaching other parts of the state and the
local community.”
The Hoxtons hope the Center for Financial
Education will not only attract
students from the surrounding area but
from other parts of the state where there
is a need for more financial education.
“If we can improve financial literacy
and the availability of high-quality fiduciary
financial advisory services by bringing
students from other areas in Appalachia
and teaching them to be great financial
planners, then they can go back to their
communities to provide those services in
areas where it’s sorely needed,” says Rob.
“While students are here at Shepherd,
they can build their resumé and learn
how to communicate the importance of
sound financial basics to people who may
be at risk in the immediate community.
They might also be able to teach financial
basics such as how to balance a checkbook
to students at a local high school
who are not gaining those skills through
other classes.” •
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