**June 22, 2006 FEMA Emergency Management Higher Education Project
Activity Report**

\(1\) EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT HIGHER EDUCATION CONFERENCE, JUNE 4-7, 2007:

Met with various Admin Support personnel today to debrief on the June
5-8, 2006 EM HiEd Conference and to begin thinking through issues
associated with the 10th Annual FEMA Emergency Management Higher
Education Conference, June 4-7, 2007. Amongst other things,

Decided to expand the number of half-day and full day workshops, but
make them integral to the conference, as opposed to designated as
\"Pre-Conference\" workshops. Thus there will be but one conference
registration/application form as opposed to one for the conference and
one for each of the three pre-conference workshops. We will develop an
attachment to the registration/application form which will provide
information on the workshops and enable conference participants to
sign-up for workshops without submitting separate applications.

We have been allotted 30 additional dorm rooms to support the
conference, Sunday June 3rd through Friday morning, June 8th \-- on top
of the increased dorm allotment for 2007 \-- 210 rooms. Thus, we now
have an allotment of 240 rooms, the largest ever.

In that only eight conference participants took advantage of the
specially arranged transportation from the Baltimore-Washington
International Airport (arranged for Monday June 5th), and because we are
making the conference four days instead of three, by integrating the
pre-conference workshops into the conference itself, the Transportation
Office will not offer special transportation next year for Monday June
4th. Regular NETC bus and van transportation to and from BWI, Dulles,
and Reagan National will be available Sunday June 3rd and Friday June
8th at no charge for those participants with an accepted application
form and a response indicating that the participant has been allotted an
on-campus dorm room, who have arranged with the Transportation Office
for their names to go on the transportation list.

Admin support will insist that for the next conference, their protocol
that applications for events here at NETC will not be processed within
30 days of the event \-- except for extenuating circumstances.
Translates into case that application/registration forms need to be
submitted before May 4th, 2007.

\(2\) FEMA:

Hsu, Spencer S. \"\'Obfuscation\' By FEMA Hurt Katrina Victims.\"

Washington Post, June 22, 2006. At:
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/21/AR2006062101793_pf.html>

Roberts, Patrick S. \"FEMA After Katrina.\" Policy Review (Hoover
Institution), No. 137, June-July 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.policyreview.org/137/roberts.html]{.underline}](http://www.policyreview.org/137/roberts.html)

\(3\) HAZARDS MAPPING AND MODELING \-- COURSE DEVELOPMENT PROJECT:

Received for review today, PowerPoint slides on \"Supporting Emergency
Response Operations Using GIS and Modeling,\" to support course session
11.

\(4\) HOMELAND SECURITY:

Lipton, Eric. \"Mayors Protest Cuts in Antiterrorism Funds.\" New York
Times, June 22, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/22/us/22grants.html]{.underline}](http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/22/us/22grants.html)

\(5\) MITIGATION:

Treaster. Joseph B. \"Let A Hurricane Huff and Puff.\" New York Times,
June 22, 2006. Accessed at:

<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/22/business/22fortress.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1150974059-zhWKGQqQIBVU42JlGVAxsQ>

\(6\) OFFICE OF GRANTS AND TRAINING, PREPAREDNESS DIRECTORATE MEETING:

Met briefly with Dr. Sandra R. Webb, Director, Training Division, Office
of Grants and Training, Preparedness Directorate, DHS, today. We talked
mostly about this year\'s Emergency Management Higher Education
Conference and next year\'s conference. Dr. Webb indicated that she was
very much interested in getting her Division more actively engaged in
these conferences \-- which is good news.

\(7\) PREPAREDNESS:

The Sentinel (PA - Editorial). \"Getting Disaster Plans In Order.\" June
22, 2006. Accessed at:

<http://www.cumberlink.com/articles/2006/06/22/editorial/editorial/daily01.txt>

\(8\) WAR ON TERROR/CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS:

Charney, Craig, and Steven A. Cook. \"America\'s Message to the Muslim
World.\" The Boston Globe, June 21, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/06/21/opinion/edcharney.php]{.underline}](http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/06/21/opinion/edcharney.php)

\(9\) WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY, BOWLING GREEN \-- FLOODPLAIN
MANAGEMENT MINOR ANNOUNCED:

Receive news that Western Kentucky University has just recently
instituted I \"Floodplain Management Minor\" within its Department of
Geography and Geology, and within the Department of Engineering.
According to information supplied to us, \"Students will become familiar
with Federal floodplain management regulations, the National Flood
Insurance Program, hydrology, surveying and Geographic Information
Systems\...in all areas of floodplain management and the impacts of
floods on individuals, property, and regional and national economies.\"
This will be a 21 semester hour minor.

A description of this program, including it\'s point of contact, has
been drafted and forwarded to the EMI Webmaster to upload to the EM HiEd
Project Website \-- The College List tab \-- Related Programs section,
where it should be accessible shortly. In the meantime, for additional
information, contact D. David Keeling, Department of Geography and
Geology, at <david.keeling@wku.edu>

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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