Description: Discussion of the Clearinghouse Scholarship Program, which matches low income candidates in developing countries where SOA exams are administered with potential corporate or individual sponsors.

Description: Wright State University is a public research university in Dayton, Ohio, with approximately 11,000 students. With the lowest tuition fees in Ohio, the university has an access mission and plays a critical role in the region by offering high-quality, affordable education. I joined Wright State University in fall 2019 as the director of the Actuarial Science program. In spring 2020 we attained the Universities and Colleges with Actuarial Programs (UCAP)-AC designation from the Society of Actuaries (SOA), becoming one of only three universities in southwest Ohio at this recognition tier. In this article, I would like to tell you about the journey our program has taken—its successes and its challenges. The goal is to offer a resource to other universities seeking to upgrade their Actuarial Science programs.

Description: This article promotes more interaction of academics and the actuarial profession by way of The American Risk and Insurance Association. While there are many SOA members who are also ARIA members, many others are either unaware of ARIA's existence or uninformed about its activities.

Description: This month, Expanding Horizons had the opportunity to interview Tim Boonen, the winner of the Society of Actuaries’ (SOA’s) second Actuarial Science Early Career Award.

Description: A survey of 13 universities in the U.S. and Canada indicates a wide variety of actuarial science topics of current research, as well as proposed future research.

Description: In her address at the 1997 Society of Actuaries annual meeting, incoming president Anna Rappaport gave high priority to 'further developing multidisciplinary joint ventures with other professional associations and academia, including facilitating the exchange of ideas between academics and practitioners.' This article describes the results of that endeavor.

Description: This article highlights the actuarial science program recently started at Howard University in Washington, D.C. The program may be of special interest to actuaries because Howard is the largest and generally recognized as the most prestigious predominantly black university in the U.S.A., and its actuarial program works closely with the Society's Subcommittee on Minority Recruiting.

Description: In physics and engineering education, Fermi problems require solutions based on good approximate calculations with little or no actual data, involving making justified guesses and deducing bounds without using sophisticated tools. The idea of Fermi problems are of particular relevance to today's actuaries, as pricing, reserving, and financial reporting involve more and more complex stochastic components. The paper discusses some approximate solutions developed in academia in the spirit of Fermi problems.

Description: The October/November 2015 edition of The Actuary magazine—the Society of Actuaries’ flagship publication.