The risks facing higher education are always shifting, but keeping the focus on student safety and education helps Luke Figora stay ahead.

Experience with advocacy at a young age shaped Heather McClure’s passion to drive optimal outcomes and protect both patients and physicians.

Higher education needs to redeem itself after the admissions bribery scandal: Here’s how.

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.

Organizations looking to integrate facial recognition technology into their security systems must consider it may not always be the best alternative.

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.

Because gun violence is unpredictable, risk managers need to keep on top of any exclusions their active shooter insurance might hold.

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.

How will college graduates be able to sell their skills? Maybe SNL’s Father Guido Sarducci had the answers all along.

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.

University risk managers need to move forward and champion changes in the academic model.

Financial pressures and societal changes are challenging university risk managers like never before.

Mount Ida College in Massachusetts just declared bankruptcy. Who’s next?

As a professor of business, Jack Hampton knows firsthand the positive impact education has on risk managers as they tackle growing risks.

No Problem Too Big Earthquakes on campus? No problem. Remote flights? No problem. High premiums? No problem. With Charmaine Davis, clients know the words “no problem” aren’t lip service. Davis’ “no problem” solutions are the result of hard work, industry knowledge and connections; understanding client needs; and leveraging the marketplace to her clients’ advantage. “When… View Article

A lack of clarity on the role of professors in higher education poses serious risks for students, professors and the institutions they populate.

Joseph J. Mazza has cut repetitive motion workers’ comp claims in half by training in ergonomics.