Brown Buzz: Can $100K Become $1.5 Million? Plus Cornell, AI Career Skills & Risky Mortgages

This week on Brown Buzz, we’re cutting through the headlines and getting into the stories that affect our money, careers, and lives.

First, Mandi discusses the allegations involving Cornell and LSU, why Title IX is not the same thing as a criminal investigation, and what students and survivors should know if they want to explore a report to law enforcement.

TW: From 02:21 - 11:05 this episode includes discussion of SA.

Then, we get practical:

• The career skill employers say matters most in an AI-powered workplace

• Why more buyers are considering adjustable-rate mortgages—and the questions to ask before you sign

• A listener inherits more than $100,000 from her great-aunt: Should she pay debt, save it, invest it, or spend a little to honor her aunt?

• Why $100,000 invested at a hypothetical 7% annual return could grow to nearly $1.5 million over 40 years, before taxes, fees, inflation, or investment volatility

Plus, Mandi gives Alexis Nikole Nelson—the Black Forager—her Brown Boost after Alexis’s cookbook, Happy Snacking, Don’t Die!, lands on the New York Times bestseller list.

In this episode

• Cornell and LSU: What the reporting raises about campus accountability and Title IX

• How a Title IX process differs from reporting to campus or local police