September 25, 2003

Benefits

Helping staff and faculty to strive for a healthy balance between work and personal commitments is the main focus of the Fall 2003 Work/Life Educational Series that began Wednesday (Sept. 24) and continue through Jan. 22.

The free workshop series includes topics to help foster financial security and overall well-being such as health and fitness, child-care and parenting, marriage, eldercare, career, benefits and financial planning.

A description of these workshops is provided in the new Work/Life Educational Series booklet which compiles North-western-sponsored workshops into one publication for convenience. It outlines easy ways to reserve a workshop seat, including how to use Northwestern’s convenient on-line registration.

This booklet replaces the benefit division’s semi-annual mailing of its financial planning course offerings and will be mailed in September to faculty and staff.

Two new speakers this fall that will aid workshop participants to achieve their goal will be Edward F. X. Hughes, professor of Health Care Industry Management at the Kellogg School of Management and professor of preventive medicine at the Feinberg School of Medicine, and William H. McLean, vice president and chief investment office, who is responsible for managing the University’s invested assets.

The workshop, “A Perspective on American Health Care” presented by Hughes, will be held on the Chicago campus from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 8, at Abbott Hall, Room 850, and from noon to 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 9, at Norris University Center, Ohio Room.

Other financial planning topics to be covered during the fall workshops are financial goal setting and personal debt recovery, advice for first-time homebuyers, women’s finances, and understanding investments with TIAA-CREF and with Fidelity Investments.

The Work/Life Education Series also encompasses topics related to work and home such as finding child-care, parenting teens, anger management, marital mediation and eldercare issues, which are presented by experts in the field.

For a complete listing of the workshops, visit www.northwestern.edu/hr/benefits/news/2003fall.pdf.