Building a Resilient Organization
Article Leaders must prepare their organizations to face disasters and other unplanned disruptions, says one business executive.

Minimizing Risky Employee Behavior
Article Leaders can take several steps to protect themselves and their organizations against potentially reckless or unethical employee behavior, says a risk management consultant.

PCI for Education: How to Meet the Standards for Implementation, Compliance, and Validation
Product This webinar examines the PCI Data Security Standard, which has been in place since 2005. The webinar covers PCI's 12 requirements and how to apply them. The presenter discusses PCI audits, penetration testing and forensic incident response This multimedia file is a recording of a webinar originally presented June 5, 2012.

Risk Management for Foundations
This series of four articles on risk management for institutionally related foundations was written by Thomas Atkins, a principal at Albert Risk Management.

AdvanceWork: Spotlight on...
CURRENTS Article The general counsel of Catholic University of America maintains a Web site with information on the myriad federal laws that affect higher education.

AdvanceWork: Culture Shock
CURRENTS Article Alumni travel program managers can lessen the risk of fatal cardiac arrest cases by ensuring that tour operators provide automatic external defibrillators. These machines have become common on airplanes and ships in the United States but are not as widely available in Europe. This AdvanceWork item is of interest to alumni tour planners and alumni managers interested in risk management.

Risky Business
CURRENTS Article Alumni event planners face three major liability risks: money, travel, and alcohol. Managers need to explore how to limit these risks, regardless of whether the events are sponsored by the staff at the main alumni association or by volunteers of remote clubs and chapters.

Keeping off Thin Ice
CURRENTS Article Because public relations officers are adept at issues management and crisis communications, more campuses are including communicators in the assessment and prevention aspects of the risk-management process. Their most significant contributions include raising hard questions; forging good relations between the campus and the media and community; and tracking litigation patterns. This article, which also discusses potential future issues that will challenge campuses, is of interest to media and community relations officers, PR managers, and chief advancement officers.

AdvanceWork: When Professors Talk …
CURRENTS Article … reporters listen. A guide to institutional liability when faculty members speak out of line

AdvanceWork: Liquor and Liability
CURRENTS Article An attorney and two alumni relations executives discuss the liabilities of serving alcohol on and off campus.

In Advance: Flick or Flop?
CURRENTS Article Duke university staff offer tips for dealing with film production companies that may want to use your campus as a setting for their next movie.

In Advance: Safe Under the Law
CURRENTS Article A new law protects your alumni volunteers from legal liability