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2020 CAS UNIVERSITY AWARD WINNER
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY
Temple University’s actuarial science program has five actuarial faculty members and 250 actuarial students. The university impressed the judges with its focus on property and casualty insurance across curriculum, research, and industry engagement.
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The world is going through an extraordinary event.
My first CAS meeting was the 100-year anniversary annual meeting in New York City. I was planning on attending my second meeting in Orlando last fall, but as fate and my later-identified inadequate knowledge of the exam 9 material would have it, I am currently dreaming about Austin, Texas for November 2017.
Here lies the best advice I collected before my first meeting, and what I will do differently while attending my second.
Relative to some other professions, like teacher, doctor, or engineer, the job of actuary seems like a modern idea. After all, there are many fewer actuaries despite it being ranked as one of the best careers in the world. However, the practice of actuarial science is not as young as it used to be. In fact, primitive versions of actuaries are as old as insurance itself, dating back to the seventeenth century. The Casualty Actuarial Society was founded in 1914, which set forth the principles that we follow today.
