Profiles in Managing Risk

Disaster Response Plans Help Schools and Colleges Weather the Storm

No matter where your institution is located, an extreme storm could strike your school or college during any season, pounding your community with high winds, floods, power outages, structural damage, and a chaotic aftermath.
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Keeping Track: Managing Risk in Off-Campus and Far-Flung Properties

Owning off-campus properties and managing multiple campuses expand a higher education institution’s reach, whether it takes the form of a full-fledged study abroad center across the globe in Florence, Italy or a vintage movie theater just around the corner in a small Ohio town.
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K-12 Schools Fight Substance Abuse

Adolescents are at an increasing risk of alcohol and drug abuse, which could lead to long-term addiction, crime, sexual abuse, and other harmful behaviors, according to reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the surgeon general.
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Managing Change With a Balanced Approach

Individuals and organizations often dread the thought of making a significant change, even when they understand why it’s necessary. One of the challenges in orchestrating change is getting all interested parties to agree with the objectives and methods for achieving them.
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Managing Cybersecurity in Higher Education

Last year, the education sector moved from third to second—tied with business—in the number of breaches by industry, with health care in the No. 1 spot, according to Symantec’s 2016 Internet Security Threat Report.
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30th Anniversary Pearls of Wisdom: UE’s History and Stability Support Education

United Educators' (UE) senior leaders, who have been with the company more than 20 years each, reflected on how what they’ve learned will continue moving UE forward as a partner for education.
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Facilities Management: Deferring Maintenance or Replacement Can Be Costly

Construction, remodeling, and maintenance aren’t often front and center topics when independent K-12 schools are developing and implementing risk management strategies. But failure to maintain and upgrade facilities and infrastructure can lead to costly risks, including personal injury.
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Campuses Respond to Student Mental Health Demands

Colleges and universities face major challenges in providing mental health services to their 21 million students. As students’ needs have evolved, demand has increased substantially.
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Enterprise Risk Management: Everyone’s Job

The Buckley School, Salisbury School, and Wake Forest University take enterprise risk management (ERM) seriously. That commitment means more than having a staff member or office that focuses on risk management.
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Rapid Rise in Drone Use Presents Risk to Higher Ed

As the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) prepares to release regulations governing drones, the use—and concerns about risks—of these unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) continue to grow rapidly, and educational institutions are paying attention.
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Managing Fraternities and Sororities to Reduce Risk

In the spring of 2015, acts of hazing, racism, alcohol abuse, and sexual violence led to closures, suspensions, or other disciplinary actions for 133 fraternities and sororities at 55 U.S. higher-education institutions, according to a Bloomberg Business report.
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Effective Sexual Assault Prevention Efforts Start at the Top

From Title IX coordinators to student affairs professionals and students themselves, a coordinated approach is necessary to effect culture change and mount an effective prevention and response campaign.
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Do You Know Enough About Campus Threat Assessment?

The shooting rampage at Virginia Tech in 2007 terrified the nation and became a game-changer for colleges and universities. Once considered a safe haven for learning, campuses came under attack for their wide-open spaces and lack of external controls.
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Schools Boost Safety for Study Abroad Programs

Schools are working hard to professionalize their study abroad programs, and ensure student safety. Many are continuously seeking and applying best practices to travel crisis response plans, and designating or hiring a person whose primary responsibility is overseeing these programs.
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Changing Campus Culture to Prevent Sexual Assault

As educational institutions continue to face increased scrutiny of their sexual assault prevention and response efforts, many are moving beyond fine-tuning their compliance procedures and focusing on a broader effort to change campus culture.
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Handling Behavioral Issues in K-12 Students with Disabilities

Students with physical, mental, and emotional disabilities have equal rights to the same educational services their classmates receive, thanks in part to advocates who fought for mainstreaming.
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Student-to-Student Interactions Help Campuses Manage Risks

College and university students, many on their own for the first time, face health and lifestyle decisions that can have lasting consequences. Choices involving alcohol and substance abuse have challenged students for decades, and issues related to mental health and sexual assault are of increasing importance.
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The Media Is Outside: What Now?

Educational institutions can face a crisis at any time, from a student death to a financial scandal, allegations of sexual misconduct, or a compliance problem. Administrators focus on preventing and mitigating such damaging incidents, but another key element of protecting a school, college, or university is developing, practicing, and implementing a crisis communications plan.
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Title IX Coordinators Learning to Cope With 'Dear Colleague' Letter

When the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Education (ED) issued the 19-page “Dear Colleague” letter (DCL) in 2011, educational institutions scrambled to fulfill the new requirements.
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Keeping Schools Safe for Learning

In the aftermath of mass shootings like those at Columbine High School and Sandy Hook Elementary School—in addition to frequent smaller attacks—enhanced security has become the new reality for schools.
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Concussion Management to Protect Student Athletes and Institutions

Putting clearly stated and well-publicized concussion management policies and procedures in place, even if the state doesn’t require it, could help schools, colleges, and universities keep student athletes safe and protect institutions from costly claims.
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Prevent and Respond to Violence

When the educational community thinks of workplace violence, the aftermath of a mass shooting often comes to mind. While violence in such settings can also include adult-on-adult crimes committed by disgruntled employees or acts of revenge against estranged partners, it’s the thought of innocent young victims that chills society.
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Protecting Minors on Campus

When parents send their children to school, they count on the institution to protect the students as well as to educate them. However, recent headlines remind us that adults in education settings—faculty, administrators, staff, and volunteers—often fail to protect children by ignoring suspected abuse, or worse, taking advantage of their positions to hurt their vulnerable charges.
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Disaster Response Plans Help Schools and Colleges Weather the Storm

Keeping Track: Managing Risk in Off-Campus and Far-Flung Properties

K-12 Schools Fight Substance Abuse

Managing Change With a Balanced Approach

Managing Cybersecurity in Higher Education

30th Anniversary Pearls of Wisdom: UE’s History and Stability Support Education

Facilities Management: Deferring Maintenance or Replacement Can Be Costly

Campuses Respond to Student Mental Health Demands

Enterprise Risk Management: Everyone’s Job

Rapid Rise in Drone Use Presents Risk to Higher Ed

Managing Fraternities and Sororities to Reduce Risk

Effective Sexual Assault Prevention Efforts Start at the Top

Do You Know Enough About Campus Threat Assessment?

Schools Boost Safety for Study Abroad Programs

Changing Campus Culture to Prevent Sexual Assault

Handling Behavioral Issues in K-12 Students with Disabilities

Student-to-Student Interactions Help Campuses Manage Risks

The Media Is Outside: What Now?

Title IX Coordinators Learning to Cope With 'Dear Colleague' Letter

Keeping Schools Safe for Learning

Concussion Management to Protect Student Athletes and Institutions

Prevent and Respond to Violence

Protecting Minors on Campus

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