How Texas Christian University Protects Students With Renters Insurance

For Craig Allen, Executive Director of Housing & Fraternity/Sorority Life at Texas Christian University, partnering with GradGuard comes down to a basic expectation: parents want to know that their student is going to be taken care of while they’re away, and they entrust the institution to make that happen.

Before GradGuard, the university relied on students and their families to intuitively know that they would probably need some form of renters or property insurance for their belongings. That approach broke down at the moments it mattered most. When a sprinkler head burst or a theft occurred, parents would ask what happens now — and Allen didn’t feel he was the expert equipped to answer them.

The GradGuard Renters Insurance Program offered a different path. As Allen describes it, the program provides peace of mind for students and their families, covering both their property and any liability they may incur as a student living away from their parents and family. It is also affordable — a meaningful factor at a private institution, where the last thing administrators want to do is add on what seems like more and more cost for families.

The benefits have shown up across the institution. Planning and preparing for incidents is part of the job for university administrators, and that planning process now includes GradGuard. Allen has a reliable product to point to, an affordable option to offer families, and a partner who can clearly explain to parents what they’re getting. “We can’t do what we do without partners like GradGuard,” Allen says, “people who are industry experts in something that we are not.”