Description: This section consists of the following reports, Activities of the Subcommittee on Variable Contracts of the ALC-LIAA Actuarial Committee, Alternate Routes, and Recent Mortality under Individual Immediate Annuities. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1969, Vol. 21, Pt. 2, No. 61.

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: From a session at the Spring regional meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Atlanta, Georgia, May 24-25, 1999 Panelists discussed recent insurance developments throughout Latin America

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 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: 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: 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.