Risk Management: Assessment, Education, & Action

Katie Wilson | Director, Armstrong Student Center | Miami UniversityRyan O’Connell | Product Manager | Campus Labs

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Session Goals

• Provide an overview of current issues in student organization risk management

• Demonstrate how to use online tools to help student organizations understand university policies and manage risk using rubrics and criteria-based questions

• Share several approaches to developing a policy for student organization insurance and utilizing technology to implement the policy, including challenges and keys to success

CURRENT ISSUES IN STUDENT ORGANIZATION RISK MANAGEMENT

ResourcesBickel, R. and Lake, P. (1999) Rights and Responsibilities of the Modern University: Who Assumes the Risk of College Life? Durham: Carolina Academic Press.

Arroyo, M. and Farley, M. (2012) Weighing the Risk. Campus Programming. NACA, May 2012.

Magna Publications. (2006). Risk Management for Student Organizations: Putting it in a Student Development Perspective. Student Affairs Leader. 34 (7).

National Center for Student Leadership (2010). Risk Management for Student Organization Advisors. National Center for Student Leadership White Paper. Madison, WI.

Institutional Liability Reduction

• Limit exposure to the first $1million in liability• Motor pool• Vendor insurance verification and minimums• Student organization relationship to university

– Sponsored, Recognized, Voluntary, Affiliated, Non-affiliated, etc…– High-risk organizations– Christian Legal Society v. Martinezhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Legal_Society_v._Martinez

• Student organization event insurance– Politics – Cost

APPROACHES TO USING TECHNOLOGY TO ASSESS RISK

Classic examples of risk “assessment”

• Checklists• Follow-up survey• Planning forms

– Choose your own adventure• Advisor training

– If you see something, say something• Event coordinators or committees• Registration processes

– Disconnect from venue bookers vs. student activities administrators• Liability • Student training

– Assessment of learning about risk

MIAMI UNIVERSITY Case Study

Issues at play

• How do we account for 400+ currently constituted orgs?– What mechanisms do we put in place?

• Assessment– Leadership training EBI results• Polices and procedures

• Event registration requirement• Insurance pioneer in OH

Creating “The Hub”

miamioh.edu/hub

• Issues at play in moving online• Non-risk motivators

Rubric Basics

A Direct measure of an intended outcomeDoes this event require additional risk management?Do the indicated risk management actions appropriately mitigate risk?

Requires observation of the subject being measured

Converts qualitative observation into quantitative score

Consistency in scoring is importantHence an automated process for common situations

Can also be used to measure student learning

EMERGING ISSUES IN RISK MANAGEMENT

Entrepreneurship

• How do entrepreneurship groups pose risk to the institution?

• Ownership of business ideas– What constitutes an early-stage investment?

• Who “owns” entrepreneurship team coordination on campus?

• Balance between engaging alumni and protecting students

http://duhatch.pratt.duke.edu/current-teams/

https://students.ucsd.edu/student-life/involvement/organizations/events/insurance.html

DISCUSSION

Additional links

About uswww.linkedin.com/pub/katie-wilson/6/aa/481

www.linkedin.com/in/higheredryan/

Issueshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aggie_Bonfire