ARIA listserv announcements #40 - week of September 12, 2011
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Greetings ARIA members:
Today’s listserv contains the following:
- Illinois State University Mathematics Department seeks Assistant Professor in Actuarial Science
Laval University Department of Finance, Insurance and Real Estate seeks appointments in Finance
CPCU Society Student Research Award Program – deadline reminder
JSTOR-Free Access to Early Journal Content announcement
- The Geneva Association Geneva Report No. 4
· ARIA News Editor seeks members news
Illinois State University
The Mathematics Department at Illinois State University is accepting applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Actuarial Science beginning August 2012. The application deadline is December 20, 2011. Please see the attached
document for additional information.
Laval University
The Department of Finance, Insurance and Real Estate is accepting applications for tenure-track appointments in Finance. Please see the attached document for additional information.
CPCU Society Student Research Award Program
Dear Faculty Member:
The October 15 deadline for submitting research proposal ideas is fast approaching.
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Purpose
The CPCU Society is proud to announce the CPCU Society Student Research Program. The purpose of the program is to create career interest within the property and casualty insurance profession, encourage students
to enhance their professional development through CPCU coursework, and promote membership in the CPCU Society.
Eligibility
Both undergraduate and graduate students are eligible. There is a separate category for undergraduate and another for graduate students. Papers may be written by individual students or students as a team. Students may also involve an
academic advisor.
Student Research Project Description
The research project can be on any subject of interest to the property and casualty insurance industry, whether current issues or of historical significance. The student will submit by October 15, 2011 the topic and a brief outline for
approval before undertaking the research. The double spaced research paper will be between two and twenty pages including an abstract and reference list, and submitted electronically.
Projects will be graded by a panel of experienced CPCU Society members and judged based on the quality of research, originality, and relevance.
Awards
In each category there will a bronze, silver and gold award. Each award will include a complimentary attendance (registration fee, transportation, hotel and per diem allowance) to the Annual 2012 CPCU Meeting in Washington DC on September
8-11. The research papers will be showcased during the meeting and published in the CPCU Journal. There will be up to three monetary awards for both the undergraduate and graduate category: $1000 (gold), $500 (silver) and $250 bronze.
Timetable
October 15 Topic/Outline Submission Deadline
November 1 Topic/Outline Approval
March 1 Papers Due
April 15 Review completed; Award Recipients Notified
Application and Proposal Process can be viewed at http://www.cpcustudentresearchawardprogram.cpcusociety.org/
Pat Arnold, CPCU
Pat.Arnold@mccombs.utexas.edu
Associate Director, Center for Risk Management & Insurance
University of Texas at Austin
(512) 475-6728
David C. Marlett, CPCU
marlettdc@appstate.edu
Chair, Department of Finance, Banking and Insurance
Appalachian State University
(828) 262-2849
About the CPCU Society
The Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters (CPCU) Society is a community
of credentialed property and casualty insurance professionals who promote excellence through ethical behavior and continuing education. The Society's more than 28,000 members hold the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) designation, which requires
passing rigorous undergraduate- and graduate-level examinations, meeting experience requirements, and agreeing to be bound by a strict code of professional ethics
JSTOR
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Dear Library and Publisher Colleagues,
I write to share exciting news: Today, we are making journal content on JSTOR published prior to 1923 in the United States and prior to 1870 elsewhere freely available to the public for reading and downloading.
This content includes nearly 500,000 articles from more than 200 journals, representing approximately 6% of the total content on JSTOR.
We are taking this step as part of our continuous effort to provide the widest possible access to content on JSTOR while ensuring the long-term preservation of this important material. To date, we have
primarily provided access to people through a growing base of libraries and institutions. In 1995, only ten journals were digitized and available to just a few universities. Today, millions of people from more than 7,000 institutions in 153 countries have
access to journals on JSTOR through their universities, colleges, high schools, businesses, research institutions, museums, historical societies, and public libraries.
These figures convey remarkable progress and impact, but there remain many people not affiliated with institutions who are without access to JSTOR. We have taken a variety of steps over the years to serve
these users. First, in 1999 we began partnering with publishers and scholarly societies to provide access to their journals to their society members and other individuals through our Individual Access Program. More than 300 journals are accessible to individuals
through this program. Second, in 2006 we initiated another program–the Publisher Sales Service–to enable publishers to sell individual articles to the public on the JSTOR platform. There are 762 journals that have articles for sale through this program. Third,
in 2009 we began partnering with universities and colleges to offer their alumni access to content on JSTOR. There are 18 institutions in this pilot program today.
About a year ago, we started working on a set of initiatives to test and provide additional forms of access. These initiatives include supporting publishers who wish to test different price points for
articles that are part of the Publisher Sales Service; working with publishers to experiment with ways in which individuals may read some articles free of charge; and providing free access for individuals to the early journal content available through JSTOR.
We are very excited about the potential for this next wave of efforts. We are confident that they will result in broader access to scholarship in the near term, and enable JSTOR and our publishers to test and develop new models that meet the wider public’s
needs in the future.
I hope you share our excitement about today’s announcement. We look forward to continuing to work with you to broaden access to individuals in the future. More information about the Early Journal Content is available, including an FAQ.
On a final note, I realize that some people may speculate that making the Early Journal Content free to the public today is a direct response to widely-publicized events over the summer involving an individual
who was indicted for downloading a substantial portion of content from JSTOR, allegedly for the purpose of posting it to file sharing sites. While we had been working on releasing the pre-1923/pre-1870 content before the incident took place, it would be inaccurate
to say that these events have had no impact on our planning. We considered whether to delay or accelerate this action, largely out of concern that people might draw incorrect conclusions about our motivations. In the end, we decided to press ahead with our
plans to make the Early Journal Content available, which we believe is in the best interest of our library and publisher partners, and students, scholars, and researchers everywhere.
Please feel free to let me know if you have questions.
Sincerely,
Laura Brown
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The Geneva Association
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Geneva Report No. 4 – September 11 and Insurance
Geneva Association report on the impact of the September 11, 2001 attacks
on the insurance industry
The report, entitled September 11—Ten Years On. Lasting impact on the world of risk and insurance focuses on the lasting impact of an event— the most expensive ever man-made disaster for insurance—and which in its immediate
aftermath was widely viewed as heralding a new era in global politics, economics and business. This effort builds on The Geneva Association’s initial special monograph Insurance and September 11—One Year After: Impact, Lessons and Unresolved Issues, written and published in 2002.
The report comprises eight essays from leading industry economists, underwriting specialists and Geneva Association researchers that establish the event’s permanent relevance for the world of risk and insurance, the impact it has had on underwriting practices
and the functioning of the market as well as other consequences that have arisen from governmental and public reactions to the attacks.
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To download the report click here.
To download the 2002 report click here.
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Articles, documents and recent publications of The Geneva Association can be found
on our website: www.genevaassociation.org |
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ARIA News Editor seeks members news
ARIA News Editor Diana Lee would like to invite members to please send notices of events, both professional (promotions, transfers, new positions, articles/books published, etc.) and personal (engagements, marriages, births) that you would
like published in the Fall issue of the ARIA News. Please send announcements to Diana at diana.lee@pciaa.net by Friday, September 23.
