Why should you invest in The Risk Management and Insurance Center at Olivet College?
Our performance record:
We recruit young people to work in the insurance, financial planning, and risk management business
We teach insurance, financial planning, and risk management to young people - currently over 115 students are participating in the Olivet College Insurance Program!
We produce over 25 graduates per year that are…
More knowledgeable insurance consumers
Campus and international insurance network leaders
Entry-level employees ready to work with minimal training – in claims, sales & underwriting
Experienced through professional internships
Professionals with an active, extensive, international network
Future leaders with experience and understanding of the business
We provide library and professional seminar resources to the industry
Our commitment to the future:
We will expand our insurance, risk management, financial planning course offerings
We will grow our new financial planning major and insurance claims investigation minor
We will update and increase our insurance & risk management library resources
Our annual costs:
$240,000 Three full-time insurance, financial planning, and risk management faculty, one program administrator, and office expenses
$20,000 Educational materials and field trips
$20,000 Insurance, financial planning, and risk management library – database & reference subscriptions, periodicals, books
$10,000 Upgrading and maintaining insurance, financial planning, and risk management office computers, office space and furniture
And of course our product...
Olivet Grads know where they’re going!
Carefully developed personal mission statements
Clearly defined professional goals
Committed to the business of insurance
Grounded in core ethical values
Who decides what Olivet Students learn?
An advisory committee of 35 insurance, financial planning, and risk management professionals
Three full-time professors each with over 30 years of insurance experience
Weekly speakers from the insurance, financial planning, and risk management professions
Olivet Grads: Well-rounded in the Liberal Arts!
Art appreciation & creative experience
Cultural diversity
History & literature
Laboratory science
Writing
Olivet Grads know Business.
Accounting, finance & economics
Business law
Computer software
Marketing
Management
Statistics
Olivet Grads know Insurance.
CLU, CPCU, IIA materials & exams
Policy analysis
Marketing strategy
Financial management of insurers
Excess & Surplus Lines market
Global exposures
Current issues
Olivet Grads can Adapt!
Broad education in business and liberal arts
Emphasis on critical thinking, analysis, problem-solving & group collaboration
Case study & computer simulation to apply knowledge
Our students have access to state of the art technology – They Are The Internet Generation - where change occurs hourly
Access to an extensive professional network!
Education for Individual & Social Responsibility
...is the mission of Olivet College:
We’re responsible for our own circumstances
In a civilized society, we look out for each other
The Edge: Gamma Iota Sigma
International network of insurance, financial planning, and risk management graduates in the US & Canada
Development of management & leadership skills
Refinement of communication & collaboration skills