UCA's Insurance Education Institute is a 3-hour graduate level course covering the fundamental principles of risk management and insurance.  The institutes are virtually free to eligible teachers, thanks to the Griffith Foundation for Insurance Education, which provides scholarships, payable directly to UCA, that covers the cost of books, materials, and tuition for the course. 

UCA's Institutes have two components: on-line and on-campus.  Both parts are required. 
The risk management and insurance content is delivered online, beginning in early March, using Blackboard, a popular platform that allows colleges and universities to host classes on the World Wide Web.  All assignments, including key terms quizzes, video lectures, review quizzes, and tests are delivered via Blackboard.

The on-campus component of UCA's Institutes include:

• Review of the online part of the course;
• Panel discussion on careers in insurance led by recent graduates of UCA's Insurance & Risk Management major;
• Presentation on insurance regulation by the Arkansas Department of Insurance;
• Presentation by Dr. Tena Crews, Associate Professor, Department of Technology Support & Training Management, College of Hospitality, Sport and Retail Management at the University of South Carolina.  Dr. Crews is the author of Fundamentals of Insurance, a high school insurance textbook;
• Lesson planning session led by Raelyne Massey, a recipient of the Etling Award from the Insurance Education Institute, and a Family Consumer Science teacher at Walnut Ridge High School;
• Field trip to an insurance company - previous institutes have visited Arkansas Farm Bureau, Qual Choice, and American Management Corporation.