**Dec. 15-18, 2003 FEMA EM Higher Ed Project Activity Report**

**(1) Disaster Response Operations and Management \-- Upper Division
College Course Development Project:**

December 18, 2003 \-- Received for review from course developer, Dr.
David McEntire, University of North Texas, a second draft of Session 16,
\"Mass Fatality Management.\"

**(2) Montgomery County Community College, Conshohocken, PA:**

December 18, 2003 \-- Talked with Benn Prybutok, Director of Criminal
Justice and Fire Science Programs at MCCC, who tells me that MCCC is
about to roll-out this January two new emergency management programs:
(1) an Emergency Management and Planning Associate Degree (63
credit-hours), and (2) an Emergency Management and Planning Certificate
(31 credit-hours). Three courses will be offered this next semester \--
starting on January 21st. A press release on the new program notes that
it was \"created as a direct response to the Homeland Security
requirements now imposed on local, state and federal emergency
preparedness resources post September 11, 2001,\" Director Prybutok
notes that the program is intended to provide people with overarching
managerial, administrative and planning skills.\" We are in the process
of acquiring additional information which will allow the drafting of
programs descriptions for uploading to the EM HiEd website \-- in the
very near future.

**(3) New Jersey Executive Order Relating to Community Colleges and
Homeland Security:**

December 17, 2003 \-- Received copy today, from New Jersey Emergency
Management, of a November 4, 2003 Executive Order (#81) issued by New
Jersey Governor James McGreevey stating that:

> \"Whereas, New Jersey\'s community colleges, the largest provider of
> higher education in the State, offer a wide range of high quality
> transfer and occupational programs plus technical training to large
> and small businesses throughout the State; and
>
> Whereas, the State of New Jersey has a compelling interest in fully
> deploying community colleges to further the State\'s education,
> workforce, and economic development agenda; and
>
> Whereas, the community colleges play a unique role in the State\'s
> higher education system, bridging the gap for students and workers who
> seek post-secondary education opportunities and training that is
> tailored to meet the needs of the States businesses; and\.....
>
> Now, therefore, I, James E. McGreevey, by virtue of the authority
> vested in me by the Constitution and by the Statutes of this State, do
> hereby ORDER AND DIRECT:
>
> \....
>
> 6\. The New Jersey Council of County Colleges shall make
> recommendations on the deployment of community colleges in support of
> statewide homeland security training initiatives administered by New
> Jersey Office of the Attorney General. The Office of the Attorney
> General shall then actively work with community colleges on the New
> Jersey Community College Homeland Security Training Project that has
> been endorsed by the New Jersey League of Municipalities, the New
> Jersey Association of Counties, and the New Jersey General Assembly.\"

**(4) North Dakota State University Call For Papers on Emergency
Management Higher Education:**

> The Institute for Regional Studies at NDSU is seeking paper
> submissions for its Emergency Management and Disaster Studies
> monograph series. The first issue will be conceptual, theoretical
> and/or position papers on emergency management higher education.
>
> All papers submitted will be peer reviewed. Deadline for paper
> submission is **March 31, 2004**. Papers should not exceed a maximum
> of 4000 words including abstract and bibliography in Times New Roman
> 12 pt. font, 1" margins all around with tables and figures embedded in
> the text. Papers should be written in accordance with the guidelines
> of the American Anthropological Association with in-text citations
> taking the following form: (Sahlins 1961:323). The form for the
> listing of references is as follows:
>
> [Journals:]{.underline}
>
> HUGHES, FELICIA. 1997. Consciousness in performance. *Social
> Anthropology* 5:55-68.
>
> [Books:]{.underline}
>
> KAPLAN, MATTHEW AND ATSUKO KUSANO. 1998. *Intergenerational programs:
> Support for children, youth, and elders in Japan*. Albany: State
> University of New York Press.
>
> [Sections of Books:]{.underline}
>
> LEHMAN, F. AND K. WITZ. 1974. \"Prolegomena to a formal theory of
> kinship,\" in *Genealogical mathematics*. Edited by P. Ballonoff, pp.
> 111-34. The Hague: Mouton.
>
> Please submit your paper electronically in Microsoft Word format via
> e-mail to [arthur.oyolayemaiel@ndsu.nodak.edu
> \<[mailto:arthur.oyolayemaiel@ndsu.nodak.edu](mailto:arthur.oyolayemaiel@ndsu.nodak.edu)\>]{.underline}.

**(5) Social Dimensions of Disaster, 2nd Edition \-- Upper Division
College Course Revision Project:**

December 15, 2003 \-- Received from course developer, Dr. Thomas Drabek,
recently retired from the University of Denver, the following sessions
for review:

> Session 36, Disaster Denial and Disaster Preparedness Behavior
>
> Session 37, Field Trip: American Red Cross
>
> Session 38, Field Trip: Local Emergency Management Agency
>
> Session 39, Field Trip: State Emergency Management Agency, and
>
> Session 40, Field Trip: Federal Emergency Management Agency

**(6) University of North Carolina at Pembroke:**

December 15, 2003 \-- Received note from Dr. Robert Schneider, Chair of
the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, that soon
after the holidays he and faculty member Dan Barbee will begin the
design of an Emergency Management Concentration within their Masters of
Public Administration Program. For additional information, Dr. Schneider
can be reached at: robert.schneier@uncp.edu.

**(7) University of North Texas White Paper:**

December 18, 2003 \-- Received for review from Dr. David McEntire,
Director of the Emergency Administration and Planning Program at UNT, a
sixteen-page White Paper entitled \"Foreseeing the Future, Revisiting
the Past: The Historical Development and Progress of the Emergency
Administration and Planning Program.\" After review this White Paper
will be posted on the EM HiEd website \-- Emergency Management Articles,
Papers and Presentations section.

**(8) University of Washington:**

December 15, 2003 \-- Received note from Dr. Trisha Dvorak at the
University of Washington to the effect that 30 students have signed up
for the roll-out of the new distance learning Masters Program in
Strategic Planning for Critical Infrastructures which begins in January,
2004. These students have already participated in November in an online
orientation to the program so that all will be ready this January. For
further information see the description of this program on The College
List on the EM HiEd Project website \-- within the Terrorism and
Homeland Security section. Applications are being taken now for the next
cohort group, scheduled to begin their program next August. Applications
can be accessed via:
[[http://www.depts.washington.edu/mspci]{.underline}](http://www.depts.washington.edu/mspci)
\-- the deadline is April 15, 2004.