The Systemwide Enterprise Risk Management program issues biennial program reports, provides regular updates to the Board of Trustees Audit and Risk Committee, and regularly contributes to the field of enterprise risk management through presentations, contributions to publications, webinars and blogs. Links for each are provided below. Please note: some links associated with associations may requite member log in access.
Enterprise Risk Management Program Biennial Reports
The Enterprise Risk Management Report provides an overview of the system-wide enterprise risk management program, including the program's governance structure, risk assessment process, ongoing mitigation strategies, and the system-wide risk registry.
Reports to the Board of Trustees
- Audit and Risk Committee - December 17, 2024
- Audit and Risk Committee - May 22, 2024
- Audit and Risk Committee - April 3, 2024
- Audit and Risk Committee - December 11, 2023
- Audit and Risk Committee - May 31, 2023
- Audit and Risk Committee - December 14, 2022
- Audit and Risk Committee - April 6, 2022
- Administration and Finance Committee - December 13, 2021
- Audit Committee - April 1, 2021
- Audit Committee - June 10, 2020
Publications and Presentations
Eastern Association of College and University Business Officials (EACUBO)
- EACUBO 2024 Workshop: Data Analytics and Enterprise Risk Management
Public Risk Management Association (PRIMA)
- Blog March 2024): Measuring the Effectiveness of Risk Begins with Assessing Risk
- Webinar 2024: Incorporating Data Analytics into Enterprise Risk Management - Christine Packard, AVP of ERM & Joe Skrzek, AVP Budget & Planning
- PRIMA National 2023: Moving Beyond Risk Assessment: Measuring the Effectiveness of Risk Mitigation Strategies
- Podcast 2022: Leveraging Enterprise Risk Management as a Crisis Response Tool: A COVID Story
- Blog 2022: Moving Risk Assessment Beyond Heat Maps: Obtaining Meaningful Risk Data to Inform Decision Making
Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE)
- SCCE Higher Education Virtual Procurement Conference (February 2025): Meet Me at the Intersection of Enterprise and Third-Party Risk Management: A Journey to Discovering Risk Reduction Opportunities in Contracts
- SCCE Higher Education Compliance Conference 2023: Measuring the Effectiveness of Risk Mitigation Strategies
Texas Tech University Health Science Center (TTUHSC)
- TTUHSC 2024 Compliance Symposium: Moving Beyond Risk Assessment: Measuring the Effectiveness of Risk Mitigation Strategies
University Risk Management and Insurance Association (URMIA)
- URMIA Insights Article (January 2025): Catching Greenlights: How to Build an Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Program
- URMIA National 2024 (Voted Best of URMIA): Catching Greenlights - How to Build an Enterprise Risk Management Program
- URMIA National 2024: From Rubber to Road - Turning Strategic into Operational - Christine Packard, AVP for ERM, University of Massachusetts & Jacob Sajinyan, Director of Risk Management, Washington State University
- URMIA National 2023 (Voted Best of URMIA): What You Should Know About Implementing a Risk Mitigation Assessment Program - An Update on UMass' Experience
- Publication 2023: URMIA Enterprise Risk Management Resource for Higher Education Guide -(UMass is a Contributor)
- URMIA Regional 2023: Best of URMIA 2023-Lessons Learned from Implementation of a Risk Mitigation Assessment Program
- Roundtable 2023: Incorporating Analytics into ERM
- URMIA National 2022 (Voted Best of URMIA): Moving Beyond Risk Assessment: Measuring the Effectiveness of Risk Mitigation Strategies
- URMIA Regional 2022: Moving Beyond Risk Assessment: Measuring the Effectiveness of Risk Mitigation Strategies
- Article 2022: Measuring Risk Mitigation Strategies' Effectiveness Begins with Assessing Risk