Active shootings have sparked terror across the United States and schools are especially vulnerable. Northwestern University is hoping to make them safer.
Donald Noel took his basic knowledge of risk management and applied it to one of the nation’s largest school districts. The result? He saved them millions of dollars.
Voice detectors aiming to pick up on aggression or distress prove less than reliable in identifying danger, but gun violence is not a conversation we can close.
Ken Banks, Area Senior Vice President, Gallagher Ken Banks has acted as Melissa Diaz’s colleague, competitor and broker over the last 12 years. When she signed on as risk services manager for the University of San Francisco, she said the transition was easy: Banks was already the university’s insurance broker. “He does more than act… View Article
Critics say a higher education degree is useless; parents despair at increasing tuition costs. In the middle, universities fail to change, focusing on faculty research instead of the students’ education.
Parents and school personnel work to protect children while at school, yet the effectiveness of this billion-dollar safety industry is coming into question.
The University of Pennsylvania, a 2018 Teddy Award winner, turned the University’s workers’ comp program around, giving it a unified identity and the structure it needed to succeed.
An educator of the next generation of risk managers, Jack Hampton, a 2018 Risk All Star winner, joined a declining risk management program. Then he made it thrive.
Creativity helped 2018 Risk All Star Dianne Howard find effective and affordable ways to protect her district, and the thousands of schoolchildren it serves.
This university risk director says the profession has come a long way, but risk managers can increase their value by getting more involved in business strategy and driving true ERM.