URMIA's 2024 Annual Business Meeting

In this special episode of URMIA Matters, listen in to URMIA's annual business meeting that was presented virtually on September 12, 2024. URMIA leadership gave updates about membership, finances, program participation, progress made on strategic initiatives, and other important updates.

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URMIA S5 E16

Hey there. Thanks for tuning in to URMIA Matters, a podcast about higher education, risk management and insurance. Let's get to it. 

Craig McAllister: Hello everyone and welcome to URMIA's 2024 business meeting. For those who don't know me, I'm Craig McAllister, the current president of URMIA, and in my day job, I serve as the assistant vice president for risk management at the University of Miami.

This annual meeting is a requirement of our bylaws, which tell us at the annual meeting of members, the president and the treasurer or their designees shall report on the activities and financial condition respectively of the corporation. So in short, that's why we're here. And we promise to make this meeting fast and fun.

So, on behalf of the entire Executive Committee and the Board of Directors, thank you for joining us today. It's good to see you all. Before we get started, I want to provide a brief explanation to everyone who is here for the live event. We converted this meeting to Zoom during the pandemic, and now we've decided to keep the essential function online to share this meeting with our entire membership.

We are recording this to make it available to all members, and we will convert it to a podcast as well. Because of that, we are making some adjustments that you may be hearing throughout our time today. First and foremost, URMIA the Corporation is in good order. And here we are with just a few highlights.

We've hit another milestone. As you can see, as of September 4th, URMIA has 3, 119 individual members, and we could hit 3, 500 by the end of 2025. Great work to bring colleagues into the membership, as many of our new members say they've heard about URMIA through you. And other friends of URMIA, our Committee of Color, And here are a few other interesting facts about our membership.

We represent nearly 900 campuses around the world. ERMI has 630 institutional members and 140 affiliate company members. And those numbers break down to the 3, 119 individuals that I mentioned. The 630 institutional members, 143 affiliate members, 96 student and retiree members, and the number of member institutions break down to 19 that are outside of the U.

S. and Canada. Institutions with total enrollment below 2, 000 students, 83. Institutions with total enrollment between 2, 000 and 4, 000 students, 120, which is an increase of 17 over last year. Institutions with total enrollment between 4, students, 186 versus 179 last year, and then institutions with total enrollment beyond that 14, 000, 146 versus 133 last year.

And part of the makeup on that, the difference between the institutional members and the campuses, is we have 76 system members, institutional system members. As you may know, last year we offered two additional communities for IRMIA members. Those groups continue to grow. Both the compliance community and the ERM community are growing as well.

And for personalized connections, please log into one of these and join if you've not done so already. We've also started the professionals of color community and the solo risk professionals community over the past few years, and you can see how they've grown as well. We've done more than 55 virtual programs, go to the next slide please, and 55 virtual programs with 4, 583 attendees at these programs.

Great attendance there. This included starting the year off with our best of series as rated from our annual conference, educational webinars presented by thought leaders. And our members and friends of EIRMIA, our communities of color, compliance and higher education ERM roundtables, and facilitated water cooler chats in conjunction with Strategic Goal 1, roundtables by special interest and school size, and our community conversations on hot topics.

Most of our virtual offerings are recorded and can be found [00:04:00] in our library. We've got a lot of activity in a lot of different ways that we're bringing this to our members. As part of our outreach across campuses, we've also opened several of our online offerings to non member individuals as well, so that you, our member risk managers, can invite colleagues to sit in on one of our webinars that are germane to their work.

113 people have taken advantage of this offer so far this year. We're up to 100 and 117 episodes of our URMIA Matters podcast, hosted by our one and only Julie Groves. Take a bow, Julie. There she is. Thank you. URMIA Association's news as well as topics from across risk management and insurance. Now in season five, we've had 15, 300 downloads since its initial launch.

If you haven't checked those out yet, you really should. For our three regional conferences this year, we have, we had almost 300 total attendees. We also partnered with the University of Texas system for the risk management conference that brought many people together from that area of the country. So it's been a good year overall for our programming.

Additionally, we set out with a goal to expand our reach on campus. Okay. Next slide. So URMIA's work is supported by the officers or executive and the executive committee, and then URMIA's board of directors elected by your organization's voting members, Julia, we'll cover more of that in the leadership development committee report that's coming up for the first item of official business.

We'd like to announce the next few board meetings. We'll have two in New Orleans on Saturday, September 28th, which will be my last board meeting to preside over. And as the conference closes on October 2nd, we're newly sworn in president Sandy Mitchell will kick off the meeting to get her term started.

Our 2025 spring board meeting will be held in conjunction with the central regional in Minneapolis, April 22nd and 23rd, 2025. The past few years, we've alternated the spring board meetings, so it's paired with a regional conference. URMIA has historically announced the board meetings in an annual business meeting as an invitation to our membership to get [00:06:00] more involved.

And did you know that our board meetings are open to members, so no closed meetings here. This is my invitation to you to join us and see URMIA's board at work. It's also a great time to get involved. If you're interested in attending either meeting, please let Michelle Smith, URMIA's executive director, know so that we have logistics covered.

We're very much looking forward to seeing many of you later this month at our 55th annual conference, September 28th through October 2nd in New Orleans. And don't worry, you can still register. Our hotel block is getting full, but there are plenty of other hotels in the area and check out our website for options.

And then looking ahead, I would like to share that our 56th annual conference will take place October 2nd to October 16th, 2025 in Las Vegas. At the end of the call, you'll hear from Colorado Robertson from Mississippi State University about the New Orleans Conference, and Juan Azcarte from Dallas College will share about the Las Vegas Conference.

Our 2025 regional conferences will be in various parts of the country where our members are concentrated. We are continuing the successful model of co locating with colleague organizations from across campuses in two of the upcoming programs, and as mentioned, host the board meeting in conjunction with a third regional.

This strategy limits our exposure and reduces travel costs. A call for volunteers to work on these programs will be live shortly, if it is not already. Well, it's hard to believe that my year of URMIA presidency is coming to an end. I feel so fortunate that I've had the opportunity to represent URMIA at various events, and I want to thank the group of folks pictured here for the work they've done as volunteer leaders of the association.

And all those smiling faces. At the beginning of my term, I shared with the executive committee that since I've had the opportunity to represent URMIA at various events, I wanted to expand that further and deeper across our campus institutions. My goal this year has been to support other organizations and their leaders and raise awareness about risk management in higher education.

The things that you see here are just a drop in the bucket for our work this past year. We have been involved with 26 other organizations sharing the concerns of risk managers and educating others on how we can help. This really cements ourselves as the office of KNOW and not the office of NO. The EIRMEA board has continued to do the important work of our strategic plan.

We have five strategic goals that are focused on connecting members to each other and to resources. Each goal has a team assigned to accomplish various objectives. You can find an entire summary of these achievements online. I'm happy to share that good progress is being made on all of them. Each year we update the strategic plan for the following year.

This year we did a few things that I'm especially proud of, so bear with me as I share a few highlights from each group. For strategic goal one, connect members to each other, the group of volunteers led by Matt Tuttle has been hitting it out of the park all year. In addition to hosting monthly water cooler discussions to connect members in a more casual setting, social way, they've also conducted new member orientation calls each quarter called Colleague Connections.

They're launching a new membership matching program, URMIA Mentors. Please check out the link that Rachel is sharing, maybe sharing right now, in the chat and sign up for the program that best suits you. This group is also working on adding community for our newer risk management professionals, aptly called the YoPro group.

Keep an eye out for that. And finally, along those same lines, this group has worked with our Honors and Awards Committee to develop a new award for Emerging Risk Professionals we will have presented for the first time in New Orleans. I'm on pinned and needles waiting to hear the announcement.

Objectives for Strategic Goal 2 include, which is connecting members with professional development. This group is co led by Tim Wiseman and Susie Johnson, and they had incredible support this year by other volunteers and staff members. Not only were they improving resources, they were also measuring the usage of our resource.

This group has used data to assess the needs of the members and produced additional training and improved existing resources to better serve our busy risk managers. There is more work to be done, but a task force of volunteers took time to evaluate the resource guide, which Flo will be speaking about later, and had jumped back into the URMIA core competency workbook to look at updates needed to the most recent version.

They've also added career level filtering to this year's annual conference sessions, and you'll soon be able to filter the resources in the library by these same tags. In New Orleans, you will see a few new formats for presentations, If you're attending, please plan to check out one of them. And the regional conference will be competency based with planned rotations of topics from year to year.

All good things as you plan your professional development necessary to achieve your next career goal. Needless to say, they've already started a robust list of things they want to accomplish for 2025. Strategic Goal 3, Connect members to resources and tools, has been a lofty goal, but it's been underway since our technology audit in 2022.

This led the way for a myriad of technology improvements. While we've been able to make advancements on projects around improving information on your URMIA profile to better get you the information you want, We continue to work on reporting with a goal of knowing more about you so that we can find additional ways to connect you with one another and not like Facebook.

Additional updates have been made to fulfill the changes approved to the URMIA bylaws as well. You'll see more about that during our membership renewal period this fall. We've also welcomed new staff member, Adam, to help us meet goals in community engagement, volunteer management, and as mentioned, metric tracking.

Adam is also leading our social media engagement with our part time Indiana University student, Natalie, as part of this goal. We were also able to successfully deploy a newly formatted online affiliate member service directory. Which has expanded search capabilities. We think this has been well received by the institutional members and certainly appreciated by our affiliate members.

Sila is one of our newer staff members, and she has helped implement Google analytics tracking to help us make decisions about website changes and program marketing. We continue to implement continuous improvement in our administrative functions as opportunities present themselves as well. Again, more work to be done here.

Strategic goal four, connect our actions to the longstanding values of our members that promote diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. Two initiatives from this task force continue to thrive, including the Professionals of Color community, now with 59 members versus 28 a year ago, who have also met virtually several times in the last year, as well as in person at the Baltimore Conference and have plans to meet at the New Orleans Conference.

This group also reached out to the membership to gauge interest in supporting LGBTQ plus efforts to find that there was a need in education supporting travel for worker study and produced a webinar. Finally, in its third year of work, our Be the Change funded scholars, membership, and student internship programs are supporting and doubling the awards that we had planned, including two internship opportunities for a risk management focused student at a minority serving institution.

URMIA has hundreds of speakers each year. A shout out to all of you, by the way, and this group, along with Strategic Goal 1, is working to elevate the underrepresented voices of members who would like a chance on the big stage. If you know of someone, please let us know. We appreciate your time and energy to support our mission.

In 2025, this group will be working to be even more inclusive and expanding their work as a cultural committee. The strategic goal five is connect URMIA with a future to ensure sustainability for the association. One of the ways to fund the future of the profession through scholarships, including two that were fully funded in 2024.

The Lisa Zamaro Internship Grant and the Jenny Whittington Solo Risk Manager Professional Scholarship, both through a partnership with the Spencer Educational Foundation, where URMIA members and friends can share their treasure for the benefits of other URMIA members. We've also been keeping an eye on emerging risks, highlighted by our fun March Madness style bracket, where URMIAs cast more than 425 votes and named the public perception of higher education as the top risk facing URMIA.

URMIA and higher ed in 2024. Finally, in 2023, an audit was conducted that did not reveal any area for concern. And the finance committee has started a review of all our policies with a plan to review them every 3 years. They've been instrumental in ensuring the successful transition of executive directors from Jenny Whittington to Michelle Smith, who's about 10 months into her new position.

I've only scratched the surface of the great work being done by all the strategic groups. The other members of the executive committee will also be sharing a few updates. But if you want to know more, please reach out to any of our leaders. If you want to get involved in any of these groups, please check out the call for volunteers.

And now for Flo Hawkinson with the Secretary's report. 

Flo Hoskinson: Thank you, Craig. everybody. And thank you for that comprehensive overview of our achievements under your leadership. It's truly remarkable to see the growth and the impact that URMIA has experienced during your presidency. Your dedication to expanding URMIA's reach and fostering engagement among our members has been inspiring.

So thank you so much. The 2023, um, annual business meeting minutes, uh, have been posted and for our annual conference last year in Baltimore, and they've been approved by the board of directors. A link to those meeting minutes are published on our website. So, in fact, all of our meeting minutes are posted on the website, filed in the URMIA governance folder in the URMIA library that members can access 24 7.

So, if anyone is. interested in reviewing those, make comments, please reach out to me or any of the board members. I also wanted to make sure you were aware that we've launched and revamped the version of the URMIA resource guide [00:16:00] in late 2023. The URMIA resource guide was developed by seasoned risk managers in higher education to aid those that are new to the profession of higher education risk management.

And this guide explains foundational concepts and curates powerful content, providing a guiding light for those responsible for managing risks at institutions of higher education. I encourage you all to check it out. The update includes resources on inclusive leadership, captures important links to other training programs, certifications, and like minded professional organizations.

I'd like to turn it over to Steve Stoeger-Moore for our parliamentarian report. 

Steve Stoeger-Moore: Well, thank you. Good afternoon, everyone. Part of my responsibility as a parliamentarian is to routinely review the bylaws of the organization. After not having any particular bylaw changes for several years, we did take a focused look and an effort at updating our language, some processes mentioned, and then better defining leadership and terms that are part of the bylaw document.

So, we made some substantial changes in the affiliate membership and institutional membership for system organizations. I'm certainly happy to report that these changes were passed by the membership on August 27th with a needed quorum of 252 votes. More information can be found online in the About section of the URMIA website.

As a reminder, our bylaws were completely rewritten in 2018, launched then in 2019, and the document continues to serve us well. All our governing documents are up to date and can be viewed on the website. Certainly looking forward to seeing many of you at the annual conference in New Orleans in just a couple weeks.

Now one of the things Craig mentioned is we're going to try to have some fun. So we're going to do our first door prize and Teresa is going to help me with how we're going to actually administer that. So Teresa. 

Teresa Ransdell: So we have 43 people who are eligible for one of our door prizes. Steve, will you give me a number between 1 and 43, please?

Steve Stoeger-Moore: How about 17 Teresa? 

Teresa Ransdell: 17 is Karen Harthorn from the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. I will be in contact with you to get you your URMIA swag bag that you won. Oh, thank 

Steve Stoeger-Moore: you. Excellent. Excellent. Thank you, Teresa. And let me now introduce the treasurer, Jim Mulholland. Jim? Thank you. 

James Mulholland: Okay, so I'm Jim Mulholland, and I'm the URMIA treasurer, and I wish you all a good afternoon. Please see the 2022 and 2023 financials on the screen. And for those of you listening, the visuals are linked to this recording. I will be reviewing a summary of our financials and informing the membership. we have a slight increase for dues in 2025 after no dues increase for registration fees increase for the annual conference in the past two years, we thank you all for your continued support our statement of position, but which is our balance sheet.

We ended the year with cash and cash equivalents around 900, 000, which is about 228, 000 less than the previous year. for your support. We had two CDs through Charles Schwab and Lakeland Bank earning five and 5. 55 percent. We purchased our CDs through Old National Investments. We had around 626, 000 at Raymond James in cash and cash equivalents.

Two hundred. And 50, 000 of that will be reinvested in CDs, while the remaining funds will be moved into longer term investments. Our investments with American funds in Washington mutual [00:20:00] total 2. 679 million. Overall, we had a net surplus of 422, 000, which included significant gains in investments.

Statement of activities, income statement. We experienced a solid retention of membership, 93%, which exceeded 3, 000 for the first time in our history. Staff and board members focus on renewals and adding new members, resulting in dues revenue exceeding expectations. Dues revenue closed at 757, 000. Net revenue from regional conference was 52, 000.

The annual conference closed with revenue, uh, 1, 241, 000. And expenses paid were 861, 000 for a return on investment of 380, 000 now. Budget versus actual. As mentioned above, total dues revenue was healthy and exceeded the budget expectations by 12. 9%. Total revenue for the annual conference exceeded the budget by 211, 000, which was 20.

34 percent over the budget projections. Annual conference expenses exceeded budget by 173, 000, or 25. 32%. The budget included a net operating surplus of 352, 000 for the annual conference, and our net revenue outperformed the budget by 38, 000. Staff and board travel expenses exceeded the budget by about 17, 000.

Our net operating surplus was approximately 210, 000. I would like to introduce Julie Groves, who is the immediate past president of Vermeer for the leadership team. Development committee report. 

Julie Groves: Thank you so much. Jim. Hi, everyone. I'm Julie Groves and I'm here in my capacity as the leadership development committee chair, which is always the role of the immediate past president of this is part of our governance and it's a great way to transition from the president to being a little less involved, but not really.

As the past president, and it's a very important duty because the committee works on finding the future leaders of Armenia. So, 1st, I want to thank all the members of the leadership development committee who work together all year to find a wonderful slate of candidates and I want to extend our thanks to all the colleagues who answered the call and ran in the army election.

Thank you to all who voted. We had a great turnout. We had a terrific slate of candidates. and the future of URMIA is in very good hands. So please join me in congratulating the] following. Our president elect is Miguel Delgado from the University of Arizona. We have three new institutional board members.

They are each elected to three year terms. Amanda Franklin from Wheaton College. Rachel Pluvios from Johns Hopkins University and Elliot Young from Kansas State University. And we have one new affiliate board member who also is elected to a three year term and that's Frank Sella from Marsh. So congratulations to everyone and our sincere thanks and appreciation to all the members of the community who continue to volunteer their time to serve in many different capacities to make our association the best it can be.

We also have several board members who are completing their service to the association and we will be honoring these departing board members in person in New Orleans but I want to give a shout out to them now. Special thanks to Stephen Stoeger-Moore of Districts Mutual Insurance and Risk Management Services who has served as an officer in the parliamentarian role for quite a number of years.

So thank you, Steve, so much for your service. Stacie Kroll, who has served as our affiliate board member and both Kim Nimmo from Lehigh University and Melanie Patron from Prairie View A& M University, who served as institutional directors on the board. So please join me in thanking each of them for their work.

Finally, I want to introduce a project that's been spearheaded by the Leadership Development Committee to assist aspiring future IRMIA leaders. The committee felt like it would be helpful for the membership to have a roadmap of sorts to guide those who want to be an URMIA leadership one day. And so we've developed a document we're calling the Path to Leadership, which is a list of recommended activities for those interested in serving on the board in the future.

We want the list to be comprehensive, but not overwhelming, and we think it will result in stronger candidates for future board members. Positions or president elect roles. So look for more details to come and we welcome your input and feedback as this gets rolled out. And so now I get the pleasure of giving away the second prize.

So Teresa, help me out here with us. 

Teresa Ransdell: So we had a couple of extra people join in since the last winner's drawing. Now I need a number between 1 and 44, Julie. 

Julie Groves: Let's go for 22, right in the middle. 

Teresa Ransdell: 22 is Kim Miller at Ball State University. Kim 

Julie Groves: Miller! Congratulations, Kim Miller! Great job! Thank you! So, I will now turn it over to our President Elect for just a few more weeks, Sandy Mitchell from MIT.

Thank you, Sandy. 

Sandy Mitchell: Thank you, Julie. And good afternoon to all. I'm Sandy Mitchell, the director of insurance at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. So before I jump into my script, and so yes, I'm going off script, there was an additional picture that was shown that I wanted to do a shout out. Thank you to Julie Groves.

Julie is completing her service as a member of the ERMI executive team, a position she held for the last three years after serving on the board of directors for a number of years prior to that. So thank you as well, Julie. Sandy. As Julie indicated, I'm the President Elect of URMIA for just a couple more weeks and a member of the URMIA Executive Committee for almost a year now.

We meet once a month to ensure we have a good pulse on the work of the Association. And a fun fact for me, you know, for you to know about me and the President Elect position, did you know that the President Elect gets to review every contract that URMIA enters into? Yep, it's true. And there are a lot of them.

So Miguel, good luck next year on that one. But seriously, the governance in the process that Ermi as previous leaders have set up really works. And I'm proud of all the work they and we continue to do. The executive committee has oversight of the home office in conjunction with Michelle Smith, our executive director.

So I'm going to do call each of them and I asked them to wave so that they can be acknowledged here. Michelle Smith, the executive director. Teresa Ransdell, Director of Membership and Marketing. Adam Sieracki, Marketing Specialist. Adam is fairly new to URMIA this year. Jack Voorhees, Senior Director of Events, also a newcomer to URMIA this year.

Rachel Kuper, our Learning Specialist. Ronna Papesh, Director of Information and Technology. Sila Cinbat, Website and Database Administrator. And we have a couple sort of previous risk managers that just didn't have enough that continue on a part time basis helping us at URMIA. Lou Drapeau is the Resource Manager.

And Sue Liden is the Education Manager. And we're not done yet. Still with us is Jenny Whittington, the Executive Director Emeritus. She is also serving part time and does special projects as needed for URMIA. The office has a wonderful student worker, Natalie, from Indiana University that helps support the mission of URMIA.

For those of you active on social media, you've probably seen a number of Natalie's posts and the work that she helps us do there. The staff is always there to answer your questions for you. If you want to know more about what goes on, as Flo informed you, our monthly meeting minutes are filed in the URMIA Governance folder in the URMIA Library.

I'm now going to turn this over to Colorado Robertson from Mississippi State University who's going to tell us more about the upcoming conference in New Orleans in just about two weeks. Colorado? 

Colorado Robertson: Thanks, Sandy. 17 days. I think we have been waiting for three years, four years, maybe, to host a conference in New Orleans and it's finally coming up.

We've got 17 days left and we'll all be heading down to the Big Easy and getting ready for all of y'all to join us as well. Starting on Saturday, and I know if some of y'all have probably been keeping an eye on the weather, I'm at home today in the raincoat and hat. We've got Hurricane Francis, or what's left of her, all the way up here in Starkville, Mississippi this morning, but it made landfall yesterday down in Louisiana.

And unfortunately, New Orleans did not escape all of what Francine had to offer, but they're back up and they're getting prepared. The French Quarter [00:29:00] is totally fine, but the coastal Louisiana didn't quite fare so well with a Cat 2 hurricane and there was some flooding around New Orleans. So we, our thoughts and prayers were those people along the coast of Louisiana and we're wishing them all a speedy recovery.

But just talking with a few folks down in New Orleans, everything seems to be okay. They've had some flooding on the outskirts, but the hotel and the French Quarter is ready to receive us. And long term forecasts are looking great. So we've got some long term weather forecasts and I'm not making any promises, but I will say it is cooling off.

We're looking forward to some great weather in New Orleans. So just to kind of give you all an overview. I'm a very competitive person as Sandy knows, right, Sandy? So when we started having these conversations, it's like Apple. We want to have the best conference every year and we want to be bigger and better than the last year.

And we are nearly there. We have 981 people registered for the annual conference next year. Our goal was to be the biggest and we're only 30 away from getting there, about 37 away from getting there. We've got 104 virtual attendees. States have registered and we know we're going to get to all 50 before the annual conference.

So if you know a few folks from Hawaii and Montana, our last two holdouts, give them a call, encouraging to register for the virtual session. We're also making some phone calls. But you know, URMIA, it's not a big deal. Not a national organization anymore. We're an international organization and we're looking forward to welcoming attendees from the United Kingdom, from Canada, from South Africa, Singapore, Ghana, and Jamaica.

So we're really excited to not only have all of our colleagues join us in New Orleans or online. We're really looking excited to the conference committee. He's done a great job of we've been working on this for a year and we're really looking forward to Having everything come together, bringing a taste of New Orleans and the experiences of New Orleans into the conference and, uh, looking forward to hosting.

As you're making last minute plans, if you need help, shoot me a note within the URMIA community, give me a call, I put my messages out there on URMIA. If you're looking for last minute travel plans or things to do in New Orleans or if you just got questions about the conference, let us know. If you want to have any add ons to the conference, we have some great add ons, there's a form on the conference website, you can reach out to Jack and he can get you registered.

The meet and greets are full. A lot of the tours are full, but we've still got a few things that are left out there. And don't forget about your URMIA Cares. So if you haven't got your scholarship item, go to the campus bookstore, bring a branded scholarship item with you to New Orleans and check out URMIA Cares for buying books or bringing books so that we can give back to the local community that I'm sure is going to host us so well down in New Orleans.

So Sandy. Coming back to me. And now over to Juan. Thank you. 

Juan Azcarate: Thank you, Sandy and Craig. Not to steal any thunder from Colorado and New Orleans, but next year we're headed to another exciting city in Las Vegas. The elegant and sometimes over the top cosmopolitan of Las Vegas will host the URMIA conference in the city that never sleeps.

Uh, our committee has already met for the first time. We actually met last week. So there's a lot of excitement going on right now. A lot of opportunities that I think a city like Las Vegas is. can offer our attendees. So we intend to take full advantage to create another first class annual conference experience for our community.

So to do that, we need your help. The call for sessions will likely launch right after the New Orleans conference, but I encourage you to answer the call to submit abstracts to present in Las Vegas. Additionally, if you're attending New Orleans, make sure you complete the event evaluation because that helps us tremendously on what you liked about your annual conference experience.

Right. Identify some opportunities we can address as well. So your feedback makes a difference. So we want to hear from you. Thank you. 

Craig McAllister: Thanks Juan. And thanks to all our presenters today. It's wonderful to hear about the good work that's been done over the last year to advance the discipline of risk management in higher education.

Short and sweet with a little punch to it. We hope to see many of you in New Orleans at the conference or online for the virtual sessions. If you haven't registered yet, as Colorado has said, there's still time, but it's running down. Thank you for being a member of URMIA and supporting higher education risk management.

With that. This meeting, the 2024 annual business meeting is now adjourned. Thank you.

You've been listening to URMIA Matters. You can find more information about URMIA at www.URMIA.org. For more information about this episode, check out the show notes available to URMIA members in the URMIA Network Library.