URMIA FAQs

Institutions can find dues amounts on our dues chart. The amount for an institution’s membership dues is determined by your FTE enrollment as reported to IPEDS (the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, US) or PSIS (Postsecondary Student Information System, Canada).

Companies/organizations that want to join URMIA can also find dues amounts on our dues chart. Your dues are determined by the amount of annual revenue your company receives from higher education.

Retiree and full-time student memberships are free.

All of URMIA’s memberships expire December 31 of each year. If you join during the year, your dues are prorated to the end of the calendar year.

Yes! We want to wish you well and give you the option to continue being engaged with URMIA through a free retiree membership. Additionally, let us know who will be taking your place at your organization, especially if you are our primary contact/voting member for your organization’s URMIA membership.

Check our member directory to see if your institution/organization is listed. Some institutions are part of a system membership and may not be listed individually. Contact us if you need further assistance.

Anyone can see a list by searching our member directory. Voting members/primary contacts for an organization’s membership can request a listing of who is on their membership roster.

Changes to an organization’s URMIA membership roster need to come from/be approved by the member’s primary contact/voting member. To add someone new, complete this form and URMIA will contact the voting member to get approval for the addition, if it is not submitted by the voting member. Once approved, URMIA will set up the new account and notify the new member. You can include on this form if the new person is replacing someone currently on the roster.
If you just need to remove someone, contact the URMIA Office with that information.

URMIA has a voting member/primary contact for each member organization who approves any additions/changes to the organization’s membership roster. You can complete this application to request access and URMIA will forward it to the voting member/primary contact and ask for approval for the change(s).

Review the qualifications for the community you wish to join and if you meet the criteria, complete this form and URMIA will get you added to selected communities.

Your login ID has to be your email address. Your password can be reset by clicking on the Reset Password button here.

If the event has started and you just registered, it may take up to five minutes to get your information uploaded into the webinar platform as our two systems don’t continuously sync. If the event is on Zoom or you registered some time ago and you still can’t get access to the event using the email address you registered with, contact the URMIA Office for further help

Here are a few things to check/try: 1. Make sure you are logged into the URMIA website before attempting to register. If logged in, you should see your photo/avatar in the upper right-hand corner of the website. 2. Try using a private/incognito browser to sign into the website and register.

For most of the URMIA webinars, yes. We record webinars and the recording is typically put in the URMIA Library within 2 business days of the event for members to access. Community conversations are not recorded so attendees can talk more openly about challenges and experiences.

Yes, scholarships are available and require an application. Find details here.

Anyone from anywhere can attend any of URMIA’s regional conferences. We don’t restrict attendance at these event by geography.

URMIA opens registration for the annual conference at the beginning of May for institutions. Affiliate membership and guest registration typically open at the beginning of June.

If you are registering for an URMIA webinar, contact us and we can let you know if there is a promo code available for that particular webinar that would allow you to attend for free.

If it is an URMIA Annual Conference or Regional Conference you are registering for, you will need to register as a non-member since you are not on the organization’s roster as one of its members. To register as a non-member, first create an account if you do not already have one, then proceed with registering as a non-member.

Log into the URMIA website and visit this page to get the discount code.

URMIA accepts proposals for webinars year-round. The application period for submitting proposals to speak at our annual conference typically opens in October/November and the deadline is late January. Proposals to speak at our regional conferences open in October/November and are due by the end of November. Learn more and submit here.

You can donate here. URMIA partners with the Spencer Educational Foundation to accept donations to make them deductible as a charitable expense. You can choose to donate to the Lisa Zimmaro Internship Grant Fund or the Jenny Whittington Solo Risk Manager Professional Scholarship Fund.

For informational emails: Members can check the very bottom of any email message and click on the “Manage Email Preferences/Unsubscribe” link. Uncheck any message category that you are not interested in receiving emails.

For community/community digest messages: Click on the “tailor community notifications to your needs” at the bottom of any message sent through a URMIAnetwork community and choose whether you want messages from each community sent in real-time as they are posted, a daily digest, a consolidated daily digest of messages from all of the communities that you belong to, a consolidated weekly digest of messages from all of the communities you belong to, or no email from the community at all.

Anyone at the member institution can post a job opening on URMIA’s Career Center. The person posting should create an account and fill in the information. Prices for job postings here start at $199 and the listing is included on our careers website, is shared on URMIA’s social media pages, is included in an upcoming issue of URMIA Updates to all members, and is part of a broader network through our YMCareers system. It will be posted on other relevant job boards through this service.

Log into the URMIA website, look under your profile photo/avatar and choose “Profile.” Then, choose under “My Account” the “Discussion Signature” option and make the needed changes there.

The Risk Management Study Group offers a couple of options and discounts for URMIA members as help in studying for the ARM^TM exam. Visit the site here for more information.

Check out URMIA’s Affiliate Member Services Directory to find member organizations who are brokers – or various other categories of providers of services to higher education institutions.

If you are hosting a sports or academic camp on campus that you need insurance for, visit our camps insurance partner’s website. Click on “Buy Online” to supply your specific information and get a quote/purchase the necessary coverage. RPS Bolinger staff can answer any questions that you have about the coverage or costs.

If you are hosting an event on campus, visit our Tenants’ and Users’ Liability Insurance Policy page here. Click on “Quick Quote” to choose the institution name and your needed specifics. Any questions about the coverage or costs should be directed at Gallagher whose contact information can be found on their website.

The institution whose facility is being rented must be a member of URMIA to direct third parties to use our TULIP and camps programs. The institutions that are eligible are included in the drop-down menus during the quoting/purchasing online forms. If you feel your institution is not included in error, please contact URMIA.