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Summary
The mission of the Huebner Foundation for Insurance Education is to advance university-level risk management and insurance scholarship and learning. Named for Professor Solomon S. Huebner -- the father of collegiate risk and insurance education -- the Huebner Foundation is located at Georgia State University in the J. Mack Robinson School of Business since 2012.

History
In 1940, leaders in the insurance industry and the University of Pennsylvania collaborated to develop a solution to the inadequate supply of collegiate professors, research and publications on important issues related to the burgeoning fields of insurance and risk management. The founders observed that of the 384 instructors teaching 584 college courses in insurance and related fields in 1940, only 38 were full-time teachers with at least half of their teaching load in insurance and risk management. In response to this teaching shortage, the founders created the S.S. Huebner Foundation for Insurance Education in 1941.

The founders named this new joint enterprise after Wharton professor, Professor Solomon S. Huebner, whose life’s work was focused on the advancement of insurance education. In 1904, Dr. Huebner taught the first organized course on the economics of insurance ever offered at the collegiate level. His courses were so successful that insurance was accorded departmental status at the Wharton School in 1913, making it one of the school’s oldest departments. There were no textbooks in insurance until Dr. Huebner wrote pioneering texts on life insurance, property insurance and marine insurance. While at Wharton, Dr. Huebner also founded both the American College in 1927 and the American Institute for Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters in 1942.

In 2012, the Huebner Foundation for Insurance Education relocated from the Wharton School to the Department of Risk Management and Insurance at Georgia State University.