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The largest for-profit colleges have D&O programs with $75 million to $100 million in limits over deductibles of $1 million to $5 million. Even if insurers shy away from writing primary layers, the market is competitive.

A listing of some of the nation's top institutions of higher education and key metrics about their risk management operations.

Higher education risk managers are facing critical demographic, social and economic changes unlike any other time in history. Yet they must stay committed to long-term sustainability.

Two interesting papers for your review: one study from Harvard researchers that suggested that kids with guns were more likely to be put, and put others, in dangerous situations campus

The other is the policy brief about guns on campus from the American Association of State Colleges and Universities.

The TIAA-CREF Institute released its Finding the Best to Lead Higher Education report--advice to institutions of higher learning on how to attract and keep top administrative talent. The institute doesn't stop there--visit the TIAA-CREF Institute homepage for more higher education-related research.

Two years after the Virginia Tech rampage, legislatures are warming to the idea of allowing concealed weapons on campus. Risk managers are leery about just how safe such laws would make their schools.

Supporters of pooling mechanisms to buy insurance say they've been one of the insurance industry's big success stories.

Higher-education risks still include drinking problems and mental-health issues while universities also grapple with emerging risks from research and technology.

A listing of some of the nation's top higher education institutions, their risk managers, brokers, captives and risk management programs.

The best commercial brokers in the business know their customers sometimes better than customers know themselves. So, just who belongs to this vaunted group of middlemen and women for educational entities? Find out the 2011 Power Broker® results.

Public-sector risk management has its own twists and turns, unique from those in the private sector. So it makes perfect sense that these professionals would develop their own trade groups.