**May 17, 2006 FEMA Emergency Management Higher Education Project
Activity Report**

\(1\) BLACKFEET COMMUNITY COLLEGE, BROWNING MONTANA:

Communicated with Julene Kennerly, Dean of Academics at Blackfeet
Community College, concerning the school\'s investigation into the
development of an Emergency Management Associate Degree. For additional
information, Dean Kennerly can be reached at: <Julene_Kennerly@bfcc.org>

\(2\) EM & HOMELAND SECURITY/DEFENSE HIGHER EDUCATION CONFERENCE, JUNE
6-8, 2006:

Made several additional changes to the agenda, which will be forwarded
to the Webmaster Friday for uploading to the Project website to replace
the version there \-- waiting for some law of physics to kick in \-- the
one about having saturated the agenda modification universe \-- no more
possibilities exist.

\(3\) FEMA:

Thevenot, Brian. \"Witt Deplores FEMA\'s Current Condition.\" New
Orleans Times-Picayune, May 17, 2006. Accessed at:

<http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-14/114784567260150.xml&coll=1>

\[Excerpt: \"I\'m extremely disappointed in what\'s happened to FEMA,\"
he said, urging federal authorities to remove the agency from the
Department of Homeland Security. \"It\'s been divided, sliced up. It\'s
not the agency we used to know, and the capability isn\'t there.\"\]

\(4\) KATRINA:

Fessler, Pam. \"Report: FEMA Didn\'t Reject Help From Interior Dept.\"

NPR, May 17, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5409276]{.underline}](http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5409276)

\[From DHS News Briefing summary: \"\...contrary to a widely reported
story, according to the Senate report on Katrina, \'the Interior
Department never actually made\' an offer of supplies and personnel to
FEMA. \'An Interior Department official told investigators in March that
the offer went instead to the White House Homeland Security Council. And
it wasn\'t made in the \'immediate aftermath of the storm,\' as
initially stated, but on Saturday, five days after Katrina hit\'.\"\]

\(5\) NATIONAL SURVEY OF STATE HOMELAND SECURITY OFFICIALS:

Western Carolina University, Institute for the Economy and the Future.

\"National Survey of State Homeland Security Officials.\" 40-page slide
set, May 2006. Accessed at:

<http://www.hlswatch.com/2006/05/16/new-survey-of-state-homeland-security-directors/>

\[Note: While not 100% terrorism-oriented, this is a terrorism-centric
survey. States that some Emergency Management Directors were included in
the survey because emergency management \"currently plays a critical
role in two areas of state homeland security, namely protection and
recovery.\" Could it be that the reason that mitigation, preparedness
and response are not mentioned is that in the eyes of the surveyors
those relate to natural disasters? Comprehensive emergency management is
all actors, all hazards (natural, technological, intentional) and all
phases (mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery).\]

\(6\) PANDEMIC:

Price, Joyce Howard. \"Bird Flu Pandemic Threat Seen Waning.\"

Washington Times, May 17, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20060517-125628-9481r.htm]{.underline}](http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20060517-125628-9481r.htm)

B. Wayne Blanchard, Ph.D., CEM

Higher Education Project Manager

Emergency Management Institute

National Emergency Training Center

Federal Emergency Management Agency

Department of Homeland Security

16825 S. Seton, N-430

Emmitsburg, MD 21727

\(301\) 447-1262, voice

\(301\) 447-1598, fax

wayne.blanchard@dhs.gov

[[http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/edu]{.underline}](http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/edu)

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