 Thank You for Attending URMIA's Webinar, "Navigating the Resources on the URMIA Website"
The PowerPoint in support of URMIA's February 3 webinar, "Make the Most of Your Membership: Navigating the Resources on the URMIA Website," is now available! If you were unable to attend, we plan to repeat this webinar topic, as well as a number of others, in the future to help you get the most from your membership with URMIA.
Registration Is Open for 2010 Western Regional Conference in Las Vegas, 3/15-3/16/10
URMIA's 2010 Western Regional Conference, Higher Education Risk Management: Emerging Trends That You Can Bet On, is now open for registration! Visit the conference website to register, download a PDF copy of the advance brochure, view the schedule, and learn more about the speakers. Click here to register.
Date and Location: March 15-16, 2010, the Flamingo Las Vegas
URMIA Hotel Group Rate: $50 for single/double Deluxe rooms, $75 for GO Luxury rooms (+ tax). Be sure to reserve your room by 2/19/10 and identify SFUI10 as the group code to receive the special group rate.
Registration Costs: Our conference registration rate is staying low this year, and we have scheduled the conferences so you only have to spend one night away from home! Member rate: $119; non-member rate: $139; after 2/19/10, $25 added to conference rates.
For more information about regional sponsorship opportunities, please visit the Regional Conference website or contact the URMIA National Office at 812-855-6683 or urmia@urmia.org.
Submit Your Presentations Today for URMIA's 2010 Annual Conference
URMIA is now accepting presentation submissions for its 41st Annual Conference, "Bridging the Rivers of Risk," in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on October 9-13, 2010. This year's conference theme focuses on bridging the sometimes tumultuous rivers of risk facing higher education risk management and insurance professionals and offers three topic-centered tracks: students, legal and financial issues, and operations and compliance. Additionally, you may submit session proposals related to building bridges and communicating with various higher education stakeholders. For more information or to submit your proposal, click here. Presentation submissions are due Friday, February 12, 2010.
Call for Article Submissions for the 2010 URMIA Journal Is Now Open
URMIA is now accepting URMIA Journal article submissions for the 2010 edition. Articles are due on March 12, 2010, but we encourage you to start early! The Journal provides readers with the latest information and updates, written by your peers, about a variety of different higher education risk management issues. For more information, visit the URMIA Journal web page; submit your article for consideration to the URMIA National Office.
Learn About the State of Your Association
Click here to download URMIA's 2009 State of the Association, which includes information about the association's successes over the past year, the benefits URMIA can provide its members, and URMIA's strategy moving forward.
Thank You for Attending our 40th Annual Conference!
It was great to see many of you in Nashville as you Tuned Your Risk Management Skills. Click here to visit the conference website, where attendees can download and print handouts from the breakout sessions. Please take time to fill out the online evaluations. Your honest, anonymous feedback helps us to build even stronger conference programming in the future. If you have any questions, please contact the National Office by e-mail or at 812-855-6683.
Also don't miss the video of our gala event at Smiley Hollow! Take a look to see if you made an appearance.
Announcing the 2009 Edition of the URMIA Journal
The 2009 edition of the URMIA Journal is now available! The URMIA Journal aims to share new ideas, case studies, and cutting edge information about higher education risk management. The six articles in this edition cover everything from cyber liability to university mutuals and from FERPA to toxic chemicals on campus. The Journal is a benefit of membership and should be arriving in your mailbox shortly; contact the National Office at urmia@urmia.org if you do not receive your copy. PDF versions of the Journal can also be accessed from the URMIA resource library; just search for "2009 journal." Thank you again to all of those who submitted articles, to all of our accepted authors for their efforts and dedication, and to our sponsors for helping us build the profession of risk management.
Results of the National Campus Safety and Security Project Survey Now Available
URMIA recently collaborated on the National Campus Safety and Security Project with project lead NACUBO and several other higher education associations representing key higher education departments to document the current state of college and university emergency preparedness to inform the higher education community about the scope of campus safety and security today. By documenting and communicating this information, the hope is that colleges and universities will be able to continue to improve to better handle the all-hazards environment of today. To view the report, click here.
Visit URMIA's New and Improved E-mail Listserv Archive
Are you searching for answers to your higher education risk management questions? As part of the National Office's ongoing efforts to better serve our members, we have improved our e-mail listserv archive search functions! If you want to see if your question has already been asked (and answered) on the URMIA e-mail listserv, our improved listserv archive is both easy to search and includes listserv messages dating back to 1997. Visit the improved URMIA listserv archive today to begin searching for the answers to your risk management and insurance questions.
URMIA's Salary and Benchmarking Survey Report Now Available
The Salary and Benchmarking survey is our first step towards providing more detailed information about higher education risk management departments, their organizational structure, staff information, and salaries for all positions within risk management. The survey was completed by 34% of our members in July 2008, and the final report was provided to those members who took part in the survey. Printed copies of the report are available to all URMIA members for $50.00, or the cost of printing and shipping, and to non-members for $225.00. To order your copy of the Salary and Benchmarking Survey Report send an email to urmia@urmia.org.
Sneak Preview: Click here to view the Salary and Benchmarking Survey Report's table of contents. To view the questions that were asked in the survey, click here.
TULIP Brochures Available
Are you taking advantage of the URMIA TULIP program? If so, you can download TULIP brochures to print onsite by clicking here. The brochure file is a tri-fold, double-sided document packed with information regarding the program.
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Upcoming Events
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Feb 20 - 23, 2010 |
Stetson Law's 31st Annual National Conference on Law and Higher Education |
Orlando, FL |
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Mar 15 - 16, 2010 |
URMIA's Western Regional Conference |
Las Vegas, NV |
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Apr 25 - 29, 2010 |
RIMS' 2010 Annual Conference and Exhibition |
Boston, MA |
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Apr 29, 2010 |
URMIA's Northeastern Regional Conference |
Boston, MA |
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May 12 - 13, 2010 |
URMIA's Midwestern Regional Conference |
St. Louis, MO |
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Jun 6 - 9, 2010 |
PRIMA's 31st Annual Conference |
Orlando, FL |
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Jun 21 - 22, 2010 |
URMIA's Northern Regional Conference |
Syracuse, NY |
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Oct 9 - 13, 2010 |
URMIA's 41st Annual Conference - Omni William Penn Hotel |
Pittsburgh, PA |
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Sep 10 - 14, 2011 |
URMIA's 42nd Annual Conference - Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront |
Portland, OR |
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Sep 29 - Oct 3, 2012 |
URMIA's 43rd Annual Conference - Westin Providence |
Providence, RI |
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