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SRA Risk Communication Specialty Group The Risk Communication Specialty Group (RCSG) focuses on the communication of risk information between technical and lay audiences and is open to all members of the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) . Our membership represents a variety of theoretical and practical perspectives on risk communication. Members' interest areas include the perception of risk, public participation, mass media coverage of risk, trust and credibility, social influence, and evaluation related to risk communication activities. The purpose of the group is to facilitate the exchange of ideas and knowledge among practitioners, researchers, scholars, teachers, students, and others ...
Specialty Risk Group - custom and special risk plans for student SRG 's relationships with our clients are not based on premium volume nor size of institution. Instead, high quality of service, product design and premium management are carefully monitored so as to continue with an affordable, highly usable product. SRG has extensive experience meeting these requirements through our broad industry network of contacts and effective strategies to create impressive programs and retain financially stable insurance companies.
Best Practices for At Risk Students Best Practices for At Risk Children Copyright 2002 by Ana McDonald, All Rights Reserved Click here for permission to reprint With the recent proliferation of programs designed for at-risk students, it becomes essential to review the available literature in order to define the students we focus upon and determine which practices have proved most effective. Although some published reports are either anecdotal or flawed by poor design (Cox, Davidson, & Bynum, 1995), consensus seems to be emerging regarding best practices for at-risk students.
But we must first ask who is at-risk? And at-risk of what? Many organizational reports and even some scientific studies simply assume a definition without articulating it. Even among the available definitions, ambiguity is often the defining characteristic. Thus we find Jan Murdock's understanding, presumably a reflection of the Texas Education Agency's (TEA) official position, that at-risk children have a "greater likelihood of becoming [educationally] disabled because of conditions surrounding their births or home environments" (1999, p. 318). Richard Ashcroft (1999) writes of students ...
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UW safety review report released; Individual campuses to discuss University of Wisconsin safety review New administrative policies concerning campus behavior. UW System facilitates "awareness" campaign on each campus about reporting troubling behavior and what to do in an event of a shooting. Advanced training for anyone needing to make a decision regarding disclosure or intervention. Campus safety information should be broadly distributed to staff, faculty, students and parents on regular basis. Review the security/law enforcement needs of two-year Colleges and Extensions. An existing UW Vice President should receive ultimate responsibility for University and College public ...