Insurance Education Foundation's Summer Insurance Institutes for Teachers Set for 2001

Indianapolis (February 27, 2001) The Insurance Education Institute (IEI) has announced its 2001 Insurance Education Institutes, held each summer for teachers who include insurance in their curriculum either as a specific course or as part of another subject. These two-week programs are designed to enable teachers to become more effective in teaching insurance and to provide the tools they need for understanding all forms of insurance with an emphasis on the relevance to high school students and their families. Three hours of graduate credit are awarded to those who successfully complete the course. Those eligible to attend are high school and community college instructors who teach insurance in any class, high school principals and guidance counselors, and graduate students majoring in education.

Teachers who are accepted into the program receive a full scholarship from The Insurance Education Institute, an Indianapolis-based nonprofit organization. The Foundation will provide scholarships for 185 teachers this year. Host schools include: Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa (June 17-29); the College of Insurance, New York City (July 8-20); California State University, Sacramento (to be held on the campus of the University of San Francisco [June 18-28]); Illinois State University, Normal (July 8-17); and Florida State University, Tallahassee (June 17-28).

The Insurance Education Institute is a nonprofit charitable organization devoted to improving public understanding of the role of insurance in society. The foundation pursues this mission primarily through the education of secondary school teachers and students.

For more information, contact IEI at 1-800-IEI-4811 or email info@IEI.org.