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ISU Alumni Association president & CEO Jeff Johnson shares how new graduates can tap into the Cyclone network. Whether its looking for a job or connecting with alums in a new city, there are many ways to take advantage of your new grad digital membership!

Barb Wollan, a human sciences specialist in family well-being with Iowa State Extension and Outreach, gives you tips on how to understand different types of debt and the best ways to pay them off over time. Plus, tips on properly using a credit card and how to check your credit report each year.

Barb Wollan, a human sciences specialist in family well-being with Iowa State Extension and Outreach, helps you identify financial goals to work toward. Plus, she will help you understand the difference between future goals and lifestyle goals.

Barb Wollan, a human sciences specialist in family well-being with Iowa State Extension and Outreach, helps you take a clear-eyed look at your financial situation and make a realistic workable monthly spending plan.

In the first episode of New Grad 101, Iowa State University Alumni Association president & CEO Jeff Johnson talks about the many ways for new graduates to become engaged alums.

Trent Preszler had an epiphany to make something with the tools he inherited from his father. With no experience in woodcraft, driven only by blind will, he built a canoe. Working with his hands tested Preszler’s limits but ultimately offered him a different per­spective on life, and the means to change it. "Little and Often," a USA Today Best Book of 2021, delivers a moving reflection on bereavement and inheritance through a profound father-and-son odyssey, resonating with Robert Pirsig’s classic "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance."