Two University of Central Arkansas professors have been awarded a grant to conduct an online Insurance Education Institute for teachers in South Carolina.
Dr. John Bratton, professor of Insurance & Risk Management and the director of Center for Insurance Studies, and Dr. Victor A. Puleo, associate professor of Insurance & Risk Management, were given a $46,410 grant from the Griffith Insurance Education Foundation for the project.
The Insurance Education Institute is a graduate course in insurance and risk management and is offered online through the Division of Academic Outreach and Extended Programs.
Bratton and Puleo are working with the South Carolina Department of Education and the South Carolina Business Education Association to offer the institute to 35 high school teachers who will teach insurance and risk management topics in their courses.
The institute will begin March 1.
Bratton and Puelo will meet with the teachers during the South Carolina Business Education Association Conference that begins Feb. 17 in Myrtle Beach, S.C. They will meet again with participants during the South Carolina Education Summit in June in Greenville, S.C.
Bratton and Puelo offered online institutes in Texas in 2007 and in Nebraska in 2009.
They have conducted six institutes at the University of Central Arkansas between 2004 and 2009. They plan to offer another institute at UCA in 2011.
Griffith initially selected the University of Central Arkansas as one of its host schools because the university has a major in insurance and risk management.
The Griffith Insurance Education Foundation was founded in 1947 at The Ohio State University to promote the study and teaching of risk management and insurance.
Today, the foundation supports college and university risk management and insurance programs nationwide, provides risk management and insurance education programs for kindergarten through 12th grade students, and offers basic principles seminars and workshops for public policymakers.
