Program areas at URMIA
Annual conference: urmia held its 54th annual conference in baltimore, Maryland. The urmia annual conference is the industry's premier face-to-face and virtual educational and networking forum for Risk managers and companies whose focus is higher education. It provides higher education Risk Management and Insurance professionals with a variety of job-specific benefits and a high return on investment. The general sessions included: "the state of cyber", "why sustainability matters", "leadership in troubling times- and a "University leadership panel". The conference featured over 50 breakout sessions, a robust pre-conference lineup including a foundations session targeted to attendees who are newer to higher education Risk Management and a review session for the arm 401 credential. Social events included our presidents reception to welcome new attendees, a charity regatta, golf outing, and many other community service opportunities through urmiacares, our opening reception and our closing event was held at the national aquarium. The conference had a total of 977 attendees including a majority of institutional members and nonmembers, affiliate members and non-members and retirees and guests.
To provide a forum for the exchange of information between college and University Risk managers; to encourage the use of common concepts and practices in the organization and implementation of a Risk Management program; to provide opportunities for familiarizing college and University Risk and Insurance managers with current developments in related industries; to develop and maintain interest on a nationwide basis in continuous improvement of the principles and practices of Risk Management, Insurance and corporate loss control in higher education, and to foster and maintain the pursuit of these functions as a profession with professional ideals and standards
Regional/other education urmia continued to offer in-person regionally-based conferences in the spring of 2023. Locations included orlando, anaheim, and boston. Combined we educated 300 persons at these events. These one- and two-day conferences provide targeted educational sessions as well as professional networking opportunities closer to home. We also continued to offer many virtual programs. Our webinars in 2023 included our best of annual conference webinar series that continues to be popular. Also, our regularly scheduled compliance community meetings as well as our erm roundtable meetings keep many members engaged and focused. New meetings for the professionals of color community, water cooler discussions and urmia colleague connections for member orientation further ensure members are connected to each other. In total, we have had over 3,000 log into these programs. We also continue our podcast urmiamatters season 3, we've added self-produced, zero additional cost, dynamic content around our main episodes as promotion for conferences. We've had a total of 13,354 listens of 105 total episodes including 42 with Risk Management topics and 62 with Association news. Our number one episode is the welcome, launched 11/12/19 with 273 listens. Tips to ease the property renewal process has become the number one rm topic podcast with 245 listens. Near the top is still season 1, ep 19: compliance Risk (231 listens), and season 1, ep 28: title ix review with 232 listens.