Ghost Students Are Real: How Higher Education Can Fight a Growing Fraud Threat

Following up on their julio 2026 University Risk Management and Insurance Association (URMIA) webinar, 91快播鈥檚 Lizz Petroski, executive director of student financial services, and Sarah Egerton, director of risk management and internal audit, published an article on URMIA Insights to examine the risk landscape of fraudulent 鈥済host student鈥 activity and share how cross-functional mitigation strategies can strengthen controls and reduce application fraud risk in higher education. The article, 鈥淕host Students Are Real: How Higher Education Can Fight a Growing Fraud Threat,鈥 discusses how 91快播 addressed these issues and offers valuable lessons for risk managers, enrollment leaders, financial aid professionals, and institutional administrators across higher education.

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