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| Contact Mary Bryant, RiskWorld staff, e-mail bryant@tec-com.com. |
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Center for Professional Education at the College of Insurance |
| The College of Insurance has been serving insurance professionals since 1901. Through its Center for Professional Education, the College can provide training for advancing careers, passing national exams, and obtaining certification or designations. It can also help with preparation to get a license as a New York insurance broker or agent and with obtaining the continuing education credit needed to renew licenses in New York and New Jersey (and eventually in Connecticut). In addition, the center offers seminars and workshops on a wide variety of topics of interest to the insurance, risk management and financial services community, including contracts analysis, reinsurance, finance, and the management of financial services organizations. (Posted October 1999.) |
| http://www.tci.edu/cpe/default.htm |
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Emergency Management Courses in Colleges, Universities, and Institutions |
| The Natural Hazards Center, located at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA, is a national and international clearinghouse for information on natural hazards and human adjustments to hazards and disasters. The center maintains extensive lists of institutions offering higher education courses in emergency and disaster management. The index covers graduate, undergraduate, associate, and certificate courses, as well as individual courses offered by various schools and training institutions. The center also provides lists of ongoing training programs and of upcoming conferences, workshops, and training dealing with hazards and disasters. (Posted September 1998.) |
| http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/colleges/colleges.html |
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Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) Emergency Management
Institute (EMI) provides training to enhance U.S. emergency management
practices through a nationwide program of (1) resident instruction on the
National Emergency Training Center campus in Emmitsburg, Maryland (75
miles north of Washington, D.C.), (2) non-resident instruction conducted
by State emergency management agencies, and (3) distance learning programs
such as independent study courses and the Emergency
Education NETwork (EENET), which takes interactive training programs
via satellite into virtually any community nationwide.
One of FEMA's goals is to encourage and support the spread of emergency management-related education in colleges and universities across the United States. To further this end, the Emergency Management Institute Higher Education Project provides an annotated listing of Colleges, Universities, and Institutions Offering Emergency Management Courses, including institutions that offer emergency management certificates or degrees. (Posted September 1998) |
| http://www.fema.gov/emi/ |
| West Chester University. Different leadership styles associated with being a firefighter were investigated, including physical leaders, mental leaders, and risk takers. The paper was written by a student as part of the collaboration class of the "interactive collaborative teaching project" -- a combined effort of three faculty members at West Chester University, California State University at Long Beach, and Casper College. (Posted November 1995.) |
| http://albie.wcupa.edu/ttreadwell/paper21 |
| The National Ag Risk Education Library is a major component of U.S. Department of Agriculture's risk management education initiative. Its intent is to help both producers and agricultural professionals quickly locate information, tools, and assistance relevant to specific risk management topics. The library includes a regional directory of risk management education contacts. (Posted October 1999.) |
| http://www.agrisk.umn.edu/ |
| The Kansas State University Research and Extension's risk management web page is designed to aid farmers with their marketing and risk management decisions. (Posted October 1999.) |
| http://www.agecon.ksu.edu/risk/ |
| West Chester University. This investigation assesses the risk-taking behavior of ROTC cadets who are perceived by fellow cadets to be effective leaders. The paper was written by a student as part of the collaboration class of the "interactive collaborative teaching project" -- a combined effort of three faculty members at West Chester University, California State University at Long Beach, and Casper College. (Posted October 1999.) |
| http://albie.wcupa.edu/ttreadwell/rotc.asc |
| (Full title: A Sociometric Examination of Leadership, Group Structure, and Their Relationship to Risk-Taking Behavior in a Volunteer Fire Department.) |
| This paper was written by a student at West Chester University. A volunteer fire department was studied in order to determine how a propensity for personal risk-taking related to the group's cohesiveness and leadership structure. A Lethal Behaviors Scale was administered to determine the individual members affinity for risk-taking and death-defying behavior. The paper is part of the collaboration class of the "interactive collaborative teaching project" -- a combined effort of three faculty members at West Chester University, California State University at Long Beach, and Casper College. (Posted November 1995.) |
| http://albie.wcupa.edu/ttreadwell/paper16 |
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