**November 13, 2006 FEMA Emergency Management Higher Education Project
Activity Report**

\(1\) BALL STATE UNIVERSITY \-- INVESTIGATING HOMELAND SECURITY PROGRAM:

Talked today with Dr. Francine Friedman, Department of Political Science
at Ball State, who is investigating the development of some sort of
graduate level homeland security program \-- most likely a certificate.
Dr. Friedman is currently teaching a \"Politics of Terrorism\" course
and is preparing to teach a Graduate Seminar on Terrorism next semester.
I argued for the inclusion of an \"all-hazards, all-actors, all-phases\"

perspective in this investigation and, if successful, eventual new
courses. Went through a description of several \"tabs\" on the EM HiEd
Project website which contain information and/or material that would
support an investigation into the development of even a
terrorism-centric homeland security program. Worth noting in passing a
comment from Dr. Friedman to the effect that she has been totally
unsuccessful getting in touch with anyone else from DHS \-- no returns
to phone calls placed, even when fortunate enough to get a phone number
to call (see emergency management note below to take this thought
forward). For additional information Dr. Friedman can be reached at:

<fsfriedman@hotmail.com>

\(2\) CITIZEN CORPS:

The National Office of Citizen Corps has initiated this month a monthly
newsletter. Volume 1, Issue 1 contains several references to CERT
(Community Emergency Response Teams) which is a topic relevant to
collegiate emergency management programs. The first issue of the Citizen
Corps Monthly Newsletter can be accessed at:

[[http://www.citizencorps.gov/pdf/newsletter/cc-newsletter-nov2006.pdf]{.underline}](http://www.citizencorps.gov/pdf/newsletter/cc-newsletter-nov2006.pdf)

\(3\) CITRUS COMMUNITY COLLEGE, GLENDORA CA \-- DEVELOPING EMER.MGMT. &
HS AAS/CERTIFICATE:

Received from Cliff Hadsell, Professor of EMS at Citrus Community
College, a very large greater Los Angeles area community college,
information for the drafting of a \"College List\" posting within the
\"Programs Being Investigated/Proposed\" section concerning their
development of an Associate of Science Degree and Certificate of
Achievement in Emergency Management and Homeland Security.

\[Citrus Community College is developing an Associate of Science Degree
in Emergency Management and Homeland Security. The program will provide
students with the competencies required of emergency management
professionals in federal, state or local government with specific
emphasis on emergency response agencies such as emergency medical
services, fire, police officers of emergency services and specific
agencies such as the Red Cross and other both public and private
providing on-site emergency response and support. The program is
designed for students preparing for a career with local, state, federal,
and private, volunteer, humanitarian and relief agencies and for
professionals currently employed as emergency medical technicians and
disaster service workers seeking to gain new skills and supervisory
practices.

Proposed Associate of Science Degree in Emergency Management and
Homeland Security curriculum:

Required Courses (15 Units)

Principles of Emergency Management (3 units)

Introduction to Terrorism and Emergency Management (3 units)

Managing Hazardous Materials Incidents (3 units)

Emergency Planning and Methodology (3 units)

Case Studies of Large Disasters (3 units)

A minimum of 6 units selected form the following

Public Policy in Emergency Management (3 units)

Global Information Systems (3 units)

Emergency Medical Technician (7 units)

Proposed Certificate of Achievement Curriculum Required Courses (12
Units)

Principles of Emergency Management (3 units)

Introduction to Terrorism and Emergency Management (3 units)

Managing Hazardous Materials Incidents (3 units)

Emergency Planning and Methodology (3 units)

A minimum of 6 units selected form the following

Case Studies of Large Disasters (3 units)

Public Policy in Emergency Management (3 units)

Global Information Systems (3 units)

For more information contact Cliff Hadsell at: <CHadsell@SMFD.US>

\(4\) DISASTERS WAITING TO HAPPEN:

Grissett, Sheila. \"Armor All \-- Critics of the rebuilding of the
levees fronting the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Pontchartrain say the Corps
of Engineers is setting them up for failure again by not armoring their
sides with rock and concrete.\" New Orleans Times-Picayune, November 12,
2006. At:
<http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-7/1163319378112270.xml&coll=1>

\(5\) EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT:

International City/County Managers Association. A Networked Approach to
Improvements in Emergency Management. Washington DC: ICMA, August 2006,
16 pages. Accessed at:
[[http://www.icma.org/main/ld.asp?ldid=20175&hsid=10&tpid=23&t=0]{.underline}](http://www.icma.org/main/ld.asp?ldid=20175&hsid=10&tpid=23&t=0)

\[Note: Document looks at what I refer to as one of the \"principles\"
or \"fundamentals\" of emergency management \-- coordination \-- said in
the same breath as \"communication\" and \"networking.\" These have come
under attack from some quarters following the move of FEMA into the
Department of Homeland Security, and even in one of the post-Katrina
review reports \-- as opposed to the currently in-vogue \"command and
control\" model (typically hierarchical) \-- seemingly in ignorance of
more than 50 years of social science research on hazards, disasters and
what to do about them \-- including work on human and organizational
behavior in relation to disasters and how to more effectively organize
and work in a hazardous world and in disaster environments. But, hey,
who has time to read anymore \-- particularly anything written pre-9/11.
Remember, \"the world changed\" after 9/11 so why read anything
concerning a different world than this one \-- or so the argument goes.

In any event, an excerpt from the Executive Summary: \"Federal, state,
and local governments need to bring a greater sense of urgency to the
critical objective of improving our emergency preparedness and response
system. Agencies at all levels must put the public first, giving
effective priority to effective coordination and communications without
engaging in turf battles\.... Too often, the U.S. has tried to manage
disasters by \'command and control\' - an approach that has significant
limitations. ICMA and other organizations representing local governments
are proposing an alternative \-- a dynamic and network-centered approach
that has the flexibility to move resources and assets where they need to
be, when they need to be there.\"

BWB comment: good luck with that \-- it will be needed in today\'s
command and control world.

BWB Note: While on the subject of \"command and control\" versus
\"cooperation, coordination, networking,\" or in Robert Gates\' words
\"involvement,\" see the recent \"Washington Post\" piece on a Sept 8,
2006 speech of Robert Gates (nominated as DOD Secretary) while serving
as President of Texas A&M University: \"How (Not) To Run The Pentagon.\"
Washington Post, November 12, 2006. At:

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/10/AR2006111001368.html>

Excerpt: \"I have long believed that the secret to successful leadership
of public institutions \-- especially in leading change \-- is the
involvement in decision-making of those who carry out the institution\'s
mission: involvement in setting the agenda, involvement in shaping
options, involvement in decisions, and involvement in
implementation.\"\]

\(6\) INTEGRATED EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT TRAINING COURSE \-- HURRICANE
RECOVERY & MITIGATION:

Received the following \"EMI Gram\" today, and passing it along for
possible relevant interest:

\[Course: E906 Hurricane Recovery & Mitigation; Dates: January 22-26,
2007; No prerequisite

Course Information: The Emergency Management Institute will conduct the
Integrated Emergency Management Course (IEMC) Hurricane Recovery &
Mitigation in fiscal year (FY) 2007. This IEMC focuses on recovery from
a hurricane event while also mitigating for future hurricanes. This
exercise-based course places public officials and other key community
leaders in a disaster simulation. The course methodologies of classroom
instruction, planning sessions, and exercises, allow for structured
decision- making in a learning, yet realistic, environment.

Course Length: Course starts Monday at 8:00 a.m., and ends Thursday at
5:00 p.m. Buses depart from the NETC campus Friday at 9:30 a.m.

Audience: The following vacancies are open for this course:

1\. Mayor

2\. City Council Member

3\. County Board

4\. City/County Attorney

5\. Personnel Director

6\. Fire Chief or Assistant

7\. City Clerk

8\. Police Chief or Deputy

9\. Sheriff or Deputy

10\. Sheriff Operations Officer

11\. Public Information Officer

12\. Public Works Director

13\. Street Superintendent

14\. Water Superintendent

15\. Building & Safety

16\. Sewer Superintendent

17\. Emergency Manager

18\. Red Cross

19\. Salvation Army

20\. School Superintendent

21\. Hospital Coordinator

22\. EMS Coordinator

23\. Epidemiologist

24\. Environmental Health

Location: National Emergency Training Center in Emmitsburg, Maryland

To Apply: Complete a FEMA Form 75-5, General Admissions Application with
student signature and supervisor or sponsoring office signature through
the State emergency management training office and fax to the National
Emergency Training Center Admissions Office at (301) 447-1658. For
further information, please refer to the IEMC web site at:
[[http://training.fema.gov/emiweb/iemc]{.underline}](http://training.fema.gov/emiweb/iemc)
or contact Kevin Thompson, course manager, at (301) 447-1220 or email at
<Kevin.thompson@dhs.gov>.\]

BWB Note: My own thought is that even though not specifically being
sought, it might work out for an emergency management educator to apply
and benefit. To access this EMI Gram in full, as well as other EMI Grams
(mostly sent out to Training Officers in State Offices of Emergency
Management), go to:
[[http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/grams/]{.underline}](http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/grams/)

\(7\) KATRINA:

Dreier, Peter. \"Katrina: A Political Disaster.\" Shelterforce Online,
Issue #145, Spring 2006, National Housing Institute. Accessed at:

[[http://www.nhi.org/online/issues/145/politicaldisaster.html]{.underline}](http://www.nhi.org/online/issues/145/politicaldisaster.html)

\(8\) PREPAREDNESS \-- PLANNING \-- EVACUATION (BWB: I don\'t Make This
Stuff Up):

Laughlin, Jason. \"Evacuation Plans Kept Under Wraps.\" Courier-Post
(NJ), 11 November 2006. At:

<http://www.courierpostonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061111/NEWS01/611110381/1006>

\[Excerpts: \"Camden County, as well as Burlington and Gloucester
counties, don\'t make evacuation plans public. All three counties have
said disseminating the information could allow terrorists to anticipate
and disrupt evacuation routes. \'If someone had asked me for a copy
years ago, I wouldn\'t have had issues with it,\' said Len Clark, deputy
emergency management coordinator for Gloucester County. \'But the
posture has changed because of the times we live in. It\'s not that
we\'re trying to hide anything\'\.... But how much or how little people
need to know is an open debate in a time when people may have to flee
not just from hurricanes and fires, but a dirty bomb or other terrorist
attack.

\'There\'s been an active debate between those two schools of thought
and I have to say neither one of them have ever conclusively won,\' said
John Copenhaver, a former Federal Emergency Management Agency director
for the Southeast United States and currently president of the Disaster
Recovery Institute. Some argue releasing too much information would make
people inflexible when an emergency happened. They\'ll panic if
circumstances require changes in the evacuation routes. Others, though,
believe people will be uncooperative and difficult to move if they
don\'t understand where they are going and why. Copenhaver is one who
believes the more information people can access, the better. The
terrorist threat for most places in the country is relatively low,
though not something to take lightly, Copenhaver said. And though a
terrorist could learn evacuation routes, he believes public safety is
best served by being more open with evacuation plans, rather than less.
\'I would think that the weighting of factors should still come down on
the side of giving people information,\' he said\.... That\'s a policy
the state of New Jersey follows. Everything in the state emergency plan
is public except an entry specifically dealing with terrorist attacks,
state Office of Emergency Management spokesman Neal Buccino said\....
Generally, Copenhaver believes cautious counties like those locally may
be leaning too much toward privacy. \'That strikes me as being a bit
overzealous in terms of dealing with potential terrorism,\' he said. \'I
think that\'s an overreaction and I think they need to reconsider it.\'
He believes people who have easy access to evacuation plans during times
of calm will react better when an emergency demands quick action.\"\]

\(9\) SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY \-- EMERGENCY/DISASTER MGMT.
FACULTY POSITION:

Received for posting to the \"EM Faculty Positions\" tab on the EM HiEd
Project website \-- toward bottom of blue column, left side of homepage
\-- the following tenure-track faculty solicitation from Dr. Bernadette
Madara:

\[Department: SHHS-Public Safety Program; Rank: Assistant Professor;

Specialization(s): Emergency-Disaster Management. Brief Description of

Duties/Responsibilities:

The successful candidate will be expected to participate in
interdisciplinary graduate-level curriculum development for a proposed
MPA in Emergency-Disaster Management and in emergency-disaster
workshop/certificate development. Participation in Connecticut-based
community service workshops for small and minority business owners is
expected. Student advisement and mentoring are integral to the position.
The appointment includes opportunities for program development, grant
writing, research and teaching.

Required Qualifications: Applicants must have at least ABD. If, ABD, the
candidate must have an earned doctorate in emergency-disaster management
or a related field by the time of appointment or by the end of the first
year of appointment. The successful applicant will have a strong
background and work experience in the field of emergency-disaster
management. Graduate-level teaching experience is required. Experience
in curriculum development, grant writing and workshop design is
expected.

Preferred Qualifications: A doctorate in emergency or disaster
management is preferred. Teaching experience utilizing distance
education and/or web-conferencing is preferable. Familiarity with
private and public funding sources for emergency-disaster program
development will strengthen the application.

Application Process: Please submit a Letter of Interest, current
Curriculum Vita, Official Graduate Transcripts and three letters of
recommendation to: Dr. Bernadette Madara, Public Safety Program
Director, Jennings Hall-135-C, Southern Connecticut State University,
New Haven, CT 06515.\]

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, K-011

Emmitsburg, MD 21727

\(301\) 447-1262, voice

\(301\) 447-1598, fax

wayne.blanchard@dhs.gov

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