Banking on Students‪.‬

INTRODUCTION It all started over dinner. Greg Gonzales, the Tennessee Commissioner for Financial Services (and an alumnus of Tennessee Tech) had been on campus in early October 2007 to speak to classes about the current state of banking and financial services. We were finishing the day with dinner at a local restaurant. Over pasta, we discussed the significant number of our students that enter the banking and financial services industry upon graduation and how the current TTU curriculum offered only a single elective banking course. Greg wondered aloud if that was enough; after further discussion, we decided that more needed to be done. That left us with figuring out how to do it.