**January 30, 2006 FEMA Emergency Management Higher Education Project
Activity Report**

\(1\) CLIMATE CHANGE:

Eilperin, Juliet. \"Debate on Climate Shifts to Issue of Irreparable
Change - Some Experts on Global Warming Foresee \'Tipping Point\' When
It Is Too Late To Act.\" Washington Post, January 29, 2006.

Accessed at:
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-yn/content/article/2006/01/28/AR2006012801021_pf.html>

References book to be published this week entitled \"Avoiding Dangerous
Climate Change,\" after the name of a British government sponsored
conference last year which examined potential climate change tipping
points. The book is listed on Amazon.com

\(2\) EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT BODY OF KNOWLEDGE SURVEY:

January 30, 2006 \-- Communicated with Carol Cwiak, Emergency Management
Doctoral Student at North Dakota state University, concerning the survey
she is attempting to do on behalf of the Emergency Management Higher
Education Project \-- to be reported on at the June 5-8, 2006 Higher
Education Conference here. This survey is directed at the 120 colleges
and universities listed and identified in The College List on the EM
HiEd Project website as having some sort of hazard, disaster, emergency
management program. Carol is seeking to update the survey conducted last
year for report out at the EM HiEd Conference on the specific readings
academics associated with different levels of emergency management
programs and emergency managers thought were the most important readings
in emergency management \-- thereby constituting an emergency management
body of knowledge. We would like to see such a survey conducted
annually.

Carol has produced a survey instrument seeking just the top ten
emergency management readings faculty associated with Associates,
Bachelors, and Graduate collegiate programs think are the most important
for their students. Carol tells me that the response rate to her emailed
survey instrument is fairly low. In our opinion projects such as this
benefit all EM collegiate programs \-- as Carol puts it \"by providing a
shortcut to information about what materials are being valued and
utilized in the current programs.\" This is, as she notes, a
contribution \"that should be considered foundational in our movement
toward professionalization via higher education.\"

Thus, if the reader has received one of Carol\'s survey instruments and
has not yet responded, would you please take about 15 minutes to compile
your own top ten list of EM readings and return the survey to Carol? For
additional information, or a copy of the survey instrument, Carol Cwiak
can be reached at: <madamgovnr@msn.com> Thanks.

\(3\) FLOODPLAIN MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE:

January 30, 2006 \-- Met with Jim Wright, adjunct faculty at the
University of Tennessee at Knoxville, about the development of a college
course on floodplain management to complement the one just developed as
an Introduction to Floodplain Management \-- namely a more floodplain
management practitioner oriented course on floodplain management
principles and practice. Also discussed an alternative project involving
the development of a floodplain management textbook. Left the discussion
with Mr. Wright agreeing to send some material in to review in a few
weeks, and will go from there.

\(4\) HIGHER EDUCATION PROJECT CONFERENCE, JUNE 5-8, 2006:

January 30, 2006 \-- Communicated with Dr. David Neal, Director, Center
for the Study of Disasters and Extreme Events, and Professor in the Fire
and Emergency Management Program at Oklahoma State University, on the
topic of his development of a Breakout Session at the Conference on
Command and Control versus Cooperation & Coordination Models in Disaster
Response.

\(5\) HOMELAND SECURITY:

Wodele, Greta. \"Mayors Vent Over Changes In Homeland Security Grants.\"

Congress Daily, January 27, 2006. Accessed at:

[[http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=33259&dcn=todaysnews]{.underline}](http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=33259&dcn=todaysnews)

\(6\) HURRICANE KATRINA:

CBS News. \"Papers: FEMA Passed Up Available Aid.\" January 30, 2006.

Accessed at:

<http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/01/30/ap/national/printableD8FES9K00.shtml>

Hsu, Spencer S. \"Post-Katrina Promises Unfulfilled - On the Gulf Coast,
Federal Recovery Effort Makes Halting Progress.\" The Washington Post,
January 28, 2006. Accessed at:
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2006/01/27/AR2006012701818.html?referrer=email&referer=email>

Warrick, Joby. \"Interior Offered Extensive Katrina Aid - FEMA Ignored
Proposals or Didn\'t Use Resources Effectively, Department Says.\"

Washington Post, January 30, 2006. Accessed at:

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-yn/content/article/2006/01/29/AR2006012900786_pf.html>

Washington Post (Editorial). \"New Orleans Betrayed.\" January 29, 2006.

Accessed at:
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/28/AR2006012801080_pf.html>

Weeks, Linton. \"New Orleans Feels Cast Adrift - Perception of
Washington Indifference Compounds Despair.\" Washington Post, January
28, 2006. Accessed at:

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/27/AR2006012701456_pf.html>

\(7\) INTRODUCTION TO EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT TEXTBOOK:

January 30, 2006 \-- Received from Dr. Anne Drabczyk, Director of Health
Education, Department of Health and Human Performance, Indiana State
University, review comments on the Introduction to Emergency Management
Textbook develop by a team led by Dr. Michael Lindell, Texas A&M
University. Reviewed comments and forwarded same to Dr. Lindell for his
consideration. The deadline for review comments is February 22nd.

\(8\) WAR ON TERRORISM:

Ellis, Joseph J. \"When Overreacting Is The Greater Danger.\" New York
Times, January 29, 2006. Accessed at:

<http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2006/01/29/opinion/edellis.php>

Fuller, Graham E. \"Three Films That Break Ground in the Middle East.\"

International Herald Tribune, January 27, 2006. Accessed at:

<http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2006/01/27/opinion/edfuller.php>
The three films are: Munich, Paradise Now, Syriana.

International Herald Tribune (Editorial). \"An Indictment of America.\"

January 27, 2006. Accessed at:

<http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2006/01/27/opinion/edrights.php>

Perelman, Marc. \"War on Terror a la Francaise.\" International Herald
Tribune, January 27, 2006. Accessed at:

<http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2006/01/27/opinion/edperelman.php>

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

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