Description: This article presents a view of health care as an economic system, suggests a framework for classifying current criticisms of the system, and offers references for further reading.

Description: Article from The Actuary, October 1989, Volume 23, No 9 describes the Nankai Actuarial Program that was suspended by pro democracy demonstrations in May of 1989 in China Tiananmen Square.

Description: A summary of how the SAO plans to strengthen the role of the academic branch of the profession through Centers of Actuarial Excellence and Ph.D. stipends.

Description: List of registrants for the 1983 Actuarial Research Conference.

Description: In early 1989, the Society of Actuaries appointed a Task Force on Strengthening Relationships Between Universities and the Actuarial Profession. The charge of the Task Force was to explore the relationships between the actuarial profession and universities in the United States and Canada and recommend how they can be strengthened to the benefit of both the actuarial profession and the universities. This article summarizes the Task Force's recommendations that were approved by the Society of Actuaries Board of Governors. From Actuarial Research Clearing House, 1991 Vol. 1.

Description: The Claremont Calif. Colleges offer an actuarial mathematics course, which began its second year of operation in February 1974. The course is provided by the mathematics department of Harvey Mudd College, but is available to all undergraduate students in the cluster of independent colleges comprising the Claremont Colleges.

Description: Book Review from The Actuary, September 1989 – Volume 23, No. 8. Actuarial Mathematics by N. Bowers. H. Gerber. J. Hickman, D. Jones and C. Nesbitt. Published by the Society of Actuaries, 1986.

Description: The author describes a course he and his colleague designed and taught at Columbia University called "A Global Perspective of the Health Insurance Market."

Description: Accomplishments of the past year and a look at initiatives for the year ahead.

Description: The University of Wisconsin–Madison used its Centers of Actuarial Excellence grant to develop technology enhanced learning (TEL) tools that would be distributed publicly to supplement the actuarial education classroom experience.