Gamma Iota Sigma-Beta Lambda Chapter

Gamma Iota Sigma the premier Risk & Insurance talent pipeline and an organization for students of insurance, risk management and actuarial science. GIS pursues a mission to promote and encourage student interest in the industry as a profession while encouraging the high moral and scholastic attainments of its members. Since its incorporation in 1965, GIS has chartered 80+ chapters across North America and boasts an annual membership of more than 5,000 students and an alumni population of over 25,000.

The idea of a national scholastic insurance organization actually started to become a reality when the Griffith Foundation for Insurance Education filed for incorporation in 1965. The following year, the OSU Insurance Society, which started at The Ohio State University in the early 1960’s, petitioned and was chartered as the first Gamma Iota Sigma Chapter, thereafter called Alpha Chapter. At Bowling Green State University, Beta Chapter received its charter in 1967, and in 1969, the University of Cincinnati was chartered as Gamma Chapter. There’s the beginning of what has now grown into a nucleus of 75 chapters located from California to Connecticut, and from Canada to Florida.