Name, Title: Marianne Young, Assistant Vice President for Financial Wellness

College/Unit: Financial Stability, Student Success

Describe what you and/or your team does at UK. 
The Financial Wellness team empowers students to navigate their daily and long-term financial paths. From the Big Blue Pantry and Basic Needs to our MoneyCATS peer coaching program and UK Invests, we are poised to support and build financial literacy skills.

Talk about the ways you’ve collaborated with ITS and how it impacted your work. 
ITS plays a critical role in our daily operations and making sure that our systems are up and running so that we can work with students. I was so thankful for the timely response from our ITS office when we were experiencing an issue a couple of months ago. They had us back up and running in no time!

In addition, their partnership during the development of UK Invests has been critical. We have been able to link systems together and use platforms in unique ways to create a program that is having a positive impact on student success. ITS is always happy to help in whatever way they can and provides custom solutions to support our innovative work.