**16-20 June 2003 FEMA EMI Hi Ed Project Activity Report**

**(1) Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning:**

June 19, 2003 \-- Talked with Dr. Wim, Wieval, College of Business
Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago, and President of the
ACSP, concerning an investigation of partnership initiatives \-- after
reading a notice in \"Partnerships in Action,\" the newsletter of the
Partners for Disaster Resistance, Oregon Showcase State Program, to the
effect that a recent graduate of the University of Oregon\'s Master of
Community and Regional Planning Program had won an award from the
Institute for Business and Home Safety which was presented at the annual
conference of the ACSP this past year \-- for her paper on \"An
Evaluation of Hazard Mitigation Planning in Oregon: Four Case Study
Flood Mitigation Plans.\" After providing an overview of the EM HiEd
Project, Dr. Wieval appeared to be very interested in opening channels
of communication and investigating initiatives. Specifically talked
about (1) ways of sharing information, (2) EM HiEd sponsorship of modest
awards for the best student paper and best planning department faculty
paper on hazards and emergency management related topics at the 2004
ACSP annual conference, (3) ACSP providing representation at the next EM
HiEd Annual Conference, June 9-10, 2004, at EMI, and (4) ACSP assistance
in developing future planning-related EM HiEd course development
projects.

**(2) Brandon University \-- Applied Disaster and Emergency Studies
Program \-- Course Syllabi:**

June 17, 2003 \-- Received from ADES Director, Fred May, copies of two
course syllabi to add to the Syllabi Compilation on the EM HiEd Project
website: Conceptual and Applied Issues in Emergency Management, and
Foundations of Hazards and Disaster Studies.

**Conceptual and Applied Issues in Emergency Management**:

Course Description:

> This course will introduce students to the current practices of
> emergency management and the theories that they are based on. The
> course will review the evolution of the current emergency management
> research and its professional practices. In doing so, students will
> examine the development and relevance of the field's concepts and
> practical applications. The principles and components of a
> comprehensive emergency management program will be presented and
> related to both urban and rural settings. The legislative framework
> and organizational relationships of the Canadian emergency management
> system will be discussed and contrasted to other sectors within Canada
> and to international examples. The four phases of comprehensive
> emergency management will each yield topics for consideration
> including mitigation planning, public awareness programs, incident
> management systems, and community recovery.

Rationale**:**

> The past two decades have seen an alarming rise in the number and
> magnitude of catastrophic events impacting our communities. One of the
> few positive outcomes of these events is the refinement of a distinct
> body of knowledge concerning the affects of hazards and disasters on
> our society. The emergency management profession has matured in
> parallel to this improved understanding of the issues. This course
> will allow students to critically examine the profession and its
> relationship to the research in preparation for employment or further
> classes in the Applied Disaster and Emergency Studies program.

**Foundations of Hazards and Disaster Studies:**

Course Description:

> This course will introduce students to the basics models, theories,
> and concepts that underlie modern emergency management's understanding
> of hazards and disasters. Students will examine the Canadian
> hazard-scape, using various hazard models, with a focus on hazard
> mitigation and emergency management issues. The interdependence of
> physical, social and economic characteristics in determining
> vulnerability will be considered in past disasters and for future
> planning. The importance of hazard and risk management in a
> comprehensive emergency management program will also be presented.
>
> The principles and components of a comprehensive emergency management
> program will be presented and related to both urban and rural
> settings. The legislative framework and organizational relationships
> of the Canadian emergency management system will be discussed and
> contrasted to other sectors within Canada and to international
> examples. The practice of emergency management is developing its own
> unique body of theoretical knowledge and professional practices.

Rationale:

> The practice of emergency management is based on an understanding of
> the social and physical processes that create hazards. This first year
> course will provide students with a broad introduction to the field
> and serve as a basis for further studies within the Applied Disaster
> and Emergency Studies program.

**(3) Canadian Disaster Management Higher Education:**

June 13, 2003 \-- While at the National Academies Disaster Roundtable
Workshop on The Emergency Manager of the Future, talked with Leanna
Falkiner, Research Officer and Coordinator, Partner Relations, Institute
for Catastrophic Loss Reduction, and author of the recent \"Inventory of
Disaster Management Education in Major Canadian Universities\" report
for the Canadian Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection and
Emergency Preparedness (mentioned in an earlier activity report). Ms.
Falkiner was interested in learning more about how and why the FEMA
Emergency Management Higher Education Project can into existence, what
it has been doing and seeking to do since then, and in helping to
establish on-going lines of communication between Canadian and US
governmental offices interested in emergency or disaster management
higher education. Told her the EM HiEd Project would be delightfully
receptive to the establishment of open communication channels with
Canadian counterparts. For additional information, Leanna Falkiner can
be reached at lfalkiner@iclr.org.

**(4) Core Competencies To Develop Successful 21st Century Emergency
Managers Outline:**

June 16-20, 2003 \-- Continued to refine this one-page outline of Core
EM Competencies developed last week for the Natural Hazards Center in
preparation for a panel discussion on this topic at the July 13-16
Hazards Workshop in Boulder, based on review comments from
practitioners, disaster researchers, and academics with emergency
management programs on their campus.

**(5) East Tennessee State University \-- New Emergency Management
Minor:**

June 17, 2003 \-- Talked with Dr. Tom Coates about his comment at the
HiEd Conference that the proposal to develop an Emergency Management
interdisciplinary minor at ETSU within the College of Public Allied
Health has been approved. Told me that the point of contact for the time
being is Dr. Wilsie Bishop, Dean of the College of Public Allied Health.
In process of getting additional information from Dean Bishop on the
content of the new EM Minor and anticipated roll-out date.

**(6) Floodplain Management Graduate Course Development Project:**

June 20, 2003 \-- Received news from Procurement Office that they had
received approval to issue Requests for Proposal for a contract to
develop this course. Great news in that this contract package was
forwarded up the line in late January and is the first EM HiEd Project
procurement to go forward this fiscal year (in the 9th month). Hopefully
this means that other EM HiEd Project course development projects and
other procurements will be funded this fiscal year. Now Procurement must
go through an advertisement and request for proposals exercise,
resulting in proposals to review and a contract to award, and a focus
group to be put together and held at EMI to meet with whomever is
awarded the contract \-- to guide the development effort. Will be a
two-year course development project, developed at the urging of and in
cooperation with the Association of State Floodplain Managers/

**(7) George Washington University, Center for Excellence in Municipal
Management, Homeland Security Curriculum:**

June 20, 2003 \-- Received from Laura Olson, Department of Public
Administration, and member of the Center for Excellence in Municipal
Management, copy of course descriptions for a proposed new Homeland
Security Curriculum at GWU. The three main objectives that frame the
courses that would be offered if the proposal is approved are:

-   To broaden students' knowledge of the administrative issues that
    constitute the federal, state, and local dimensions of the
    ***current*** Homeland Security environment. The state-of-the-art of
    threat and vulnerability identification, prevention of terrorist
    acts, response and recovery are intended to bring students
    up-to-speed on the rapid pace of change across all sectors of this
    national effort.

-   To teach students a broad range of leadership skills necessary to
    help them become entrepreneurial administrators ready to lead
    disaster response and prevention efforts. In this regard, modules
    will focus on interoperability, innovation and creativity to promote
    strategic thinking that crafts new solutions.

-   To teach participants to build networks of relationships that will
    enable them to examine the special challenges and responsibilities
    that come with leading across large, complex public organizations in
    an uncertain, changing institutional environment.

> The core curriculum consists of seven modules that will be covered in
> five working days. Follow-on electives and stand-alone courses and
> seminars offer participants the opportunity to explore specific public
> leadership and management issues in more depth, while expanding their
> network of relationships in the National Capital Area. Structured
> around a "cohort" of 25-30 actors working to secure the National
> Capitol Area, classes will be comprised participants from the
> following three groups:
>
> 1\. Elected Officials, Emergency Planners, Incident Commanders,
>
> 2\. Incident Commanders, First Responders, Support Staff,
>
> 3\. Federal, State, and Local Government Homeland Security
> specialists.

Proposed Core Curriculum Modules are:

> The Current Homeland Security Environment: A Summary of the State of
> the Art
>
> How We Think About What We Do As Public Servants
>
> Team and Relationship-Building
>
> Organizational Change and Development
>
> A Leadership Model for the Homeland Security Context: The Essentials
> of Networking
>
> Grappling With Real-Life Scenarios: Lessons Learned
>
> Analysis of Group Planning Process as a Microcosm Reflecting National
> Efforts

For further information, Laura Olson can be reached at: lolson@gwu.edu

**(8) Hazards Risk Management Upper Division Course Development
Project:**

June 12, 2003 \-- Receive for review from Greg Shaw, George Washington
University, draft Session 13, \"Identify the Risks: Community and
Environment.\"

June 19, 2003 \-- Receive for review from Greg Shaw, draft Session 18,
\"Analyze Risks: Determine Likelihood and Consequence.\"

**(9) Millersville University, PA:**

June 12, 2003 \-- Was informed by Dr. Henry Fischer, Department of
Sociology, that he has proposed to his administration the development of
an on-line Masters of Science Degree in Emergency Management. Expects to
hear from the Millersville Provost on this proposal this summer.
Millersville currently offers an undergraduate multidisciplinary minor
in Environmental Hazards and Emergency Management. For further
information Dr. Fischer can be reached at: hfischer@millersville.edu

**(10) Myers University, Cleveland, OH:**

June 16, 2003 \-- Received news from Michael O\'Connor, Associate Vice
President for Academic Affairs, that as a \"first fruit of our labors
after attending the conference \[June 4-5 EM HiEd\]\" Myers University
has decided to offer a Certificate in Homeland Security starting this
coming Fall semester. For additional information, VP O\'Connor can be
reached at moconnor@dnmyers.edu.

**(11) New Directions in Hazard Mitigation: Breaking the Disaster Cycle
\-- Graduate Course Development Project:**

June 19, 2003 \-- Received from lead course developer, Dr. David
Godschalk, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, for review,
Session 8, \"Implementing Mitigation at the State Level: Sustainable
Hazard Mitigation Criteria,\" (Godschalk)

Session 9, \"State Planning Assistance for Mitigation at the Local
Level; Assessing Local Hazard Mitigation Plans,\" (Godschalk)

Session 10, \"Coastal Erosion Issues: Shifting Hazardous Development
Costs to Users,\" by Dr. David Salvensen, UNC-Chapel Hill.

**(12) Paper on \"A Strategic Overview of the \'New\' Emergency
Management\"**

June 17, 2003 \-- Reviewed draft paper, noted above, developed for the
EM HiEd Project by Dr. Robert Schneider, Chair, Department of Political
Science and Public Administration, University of North Carolina at
Pembroke, which is, in my opinion, first rate. Provided review comments
on the draft to Dr. Schneider.

June 19, 2003 \-- Receive final 17-page paper from Dr. Schneider and
forwarded to the EMI Webmaster for upload to the \"Emergency Management
Higher Education Articles, Papers and Presentations\" section \--
http://training.fema.gov/emiweb/edu/highpapers.asp \-- and to the
\"Practitioner\'s Corner\" section \--
http://training.fema.gov/emiweb/edu/practitioner.asp. From the paper\'s
conclusion:

> \"The old emergency management tended to be event or disaster driven.
> Its primary focus was on response and recovery with a narrow focus on
> technical capabilities. The new emergency management, driven by the
> development of a stronger emphasis on hazard mitigation and
> increasingly connected to the concept of sustainable development,
> requires that the technical components of emergency management be seen
> as a part of a holistic and more strategic system that connects the
> emergency manager to the broader concerns of community planning. This
> requires the integration and consistency of all technical components
> with integrated policies and programs related to disaster mitigation
> as it is connected to the building of sustainable communities.
> Resident in this development is both the opportunity and the need to
> broaden the definition of the emergency management function. This
> broadening and redefinition in turn requires a more broadly trained,
> strategic, and proactive emergency management professional.
>
> The suggestions made herein are intended to further the discussion and
> analysis of the new emergency management. With a conceptual
> orientation centered on sustainable development and a practical
> emphasis on hazard mitigation, the outline for the future of the
> profession is clearly visible. The challenge now is to prepare new
> emergency management professionals for the future suggested by that
> outline.\"

**(13) Practitioner\'s Corner Potential Article:**

June 20, 2003 \-- Talked with Greg Moser, Plans, Training and Exercises
Coordinator, Jefferson County, CO Department of Emergency Management,
after reading his Letter to the Editor in the May/June 2003 issue of
*Homeland Protection Professional*. Was intrigued by his discussion of
the \"myth\" that \"we are all on the same team.\"

> \"As a retired military officer with little experience with the first
> responder community, this was one of my most stunning revelations when
> I got into this business \[emergency management\] in 1999. The
> parallels in parochialism between the military services and the first
> responder agencies are amazing! Each is the product of its unique
> mission, experience and culture and has only a grudging appreciation
> of the roles of its \'partners\'. Eisenhower recognized the fact of
> joint and combined operations at the end of WWII and directed the
> services to integrate this reality into combat planning, training,
> exercises and operations. Almost 60 years later, the military is still
> struggling to create both operability and interoperability. Given the
> monolithic and directive nature of the military, versus the haphazard
> and community unique nature of our first responders, I am not
> optimistic that we will ever get this problem fixed.\"

I suggested that an expansion of this topic would be a fruitful
contribution to the Practitioner\'s Corner section of the EM HiEd
Project website \-- that part of the site devoted to practitioner
attempts to communicate to academics responsible for emergency
management and homeland security collegiate programs on items of
particular interest. My view is that such academics do have a role to
play in, at the minimum, sensitizing their students to the problems of
networking, coordinating, partnering, and team-building at the local
level. Mr. Moser was interested in my proposal and agreed to draft an
expanded \"letter to the editor\" type piece for the Practitioner\'s
Corner.

Learned that Mr. Moser is also adjunct faculty at the University of
Denver and is assisting in the development of the graduate-level
Homeland Security Certificate program that is being put together for
Fall Semester, 2003 roll-out (see April 11, 2003 Activity Report item
\-- in Activity Report Archives on the EM HiEd Project website). Greg is
developing several of the courses and will provide us with course
syllabi to add to the Syllabi Compilation on the website when in final
form. See item below on University of Denver for an update on the new
Homeland Security Certificate.

**(14) Service Learning in Emergency Management:**

June 17, 2003 \-- Received permission from Dr. Tom Coates, East
Tennessee State University, to upload his remarks on service learning at
the June 4-5 EM HiEd Conference to the \"Service Learning in Emergency
Management\" section of the EM HiEd Project website \-- will be up
shortly at: http://training.fema.gov/emiweb/edu/sl_em.asp

**(15) Social Vulnerability to Disasters \-- Upper Division Course
Development Project Completion:**

June 18, 2003 \-- Finished review of the final draft of this 600-plus
paged upper division college course, written by Elaine Enarson, Cheryl
Childers, Betty Hearn Morrow, Deborah Thomas and Ben Wisner, and
forwarded course to Admin Support for a small number of minor editorial
fixes prior to uploading onto the FEMA EM HiEd Project Website
\"Academic Emergency Management and Related Courses\" section, Courses
Completed subsection \--
http://training.fema.gov/emiweb/edu/completeCourses.asp. This course is
now the 13th educational college course to be placed on the website to
support hazard, disaster and emergency management collegiate courses and
programs. The course should be available for downloading within the next
couple weeks. From the Course Goal statement:

> \"This course introduces students to an approach to understanding
> hazards and disasters grounded in social vulnerability analysis. Using
> a multi-disciplinary approach, we will examine historical,
> geographical, social, and cultural factors and conditions that put
> people differentially at risk before, during, and after disasters. In
> particular, the course will focus on global, national, regional, and
> local patterns of development. Drawing on current theory and research,
> field studies, class activities, and life experiences, students will
> explore how vulnerable social groups are affected by and cope with
> hazardous conditions and events, and strategies for community-based
> mitigation engaging those most at risk.\"

**(16) Sociology of Terrorism Course Syllabus:**

June 12, 2003 \-- Received from Dr. Henry Fischer, Millersville
University, PA, a copy of his \"Sociology of Terrorism\" course syllabus
to add to the \"Syllabi Compilation\" on the EM HiEd Project website.
Has now been uploaded to the website and can be found at:
http://training.fema.gov/emiweb/edu/syllabi.asp. From the course
description:

> \"What can you expect from this course? You will have the opportunity
> to develop a **sociological** understanding of terrorism as a means of
> *negative bargaining* pursuant to goal attainment, insight into how
> one becomes a terrorist, how terrorist groups emerge, where terrorism
> if most frequently found today, contemporary weapons of choice, how
> terrorists are trained and financed, short-term as well as long term
> strategies for countering terrorism, and means for redressing
> grievances without resulting to terror.\"

**(17) Sonoma State University, CA:**

June 16, 2003 \-- Craig Zachlod, Emergency Management Project Director,
School of Extended Education, emails with good news:

> We have had confirmation about the grant to develop the certificate
> program and leadership program at Sonoma State University. The
> California State University System has funded our start up with
> \$49,325 to which has been added other matching commitments of in-kind
>
> and projected income totaling \$107,350.
>
> We are now planning a regional stakeholder conference for September
> 11, 2003, a 2 day (Statewide) conference in early 2004, regional
> collaboration with community colleges and a summer institute for 2004.
> We certainly appreciate your advice and support and of course we will
> be looking for additional grants, strategic partnerships and contracts
> to help sustain our current efforts. We are currently exploring
> Department of Education money for Schools and seeking funds for local
> emergency services organizations to help build sustainable and more
>
> self-reliant communities.

**(18) University of Denver, Graduate School of International Studies,
Homeland Security Programs:**

June 20, 2003 \-- Received from adjunct faculty member, Greg Moser,
Jefferson County, CO Division of Emergency Management, a four-page
description of the new graduate-level Homeland Security Certificate
Program, which is under development, pending approval, and being readied
for Fall Semester, 2003 roll-out:

The following will be required HS Certificate Courses:

> International Terrorism
>
> American Government and Policy-Making
>
> Homeland Security: Introduction
>
> Homeland Security, Civil Society, and Human Rights

Additionally, students will be required to take one of the following:

> Homeland Security: Prevention and Mitigation
>
> Homeland Security: Response and Recovery
>
> Intelligence and National Security Policy

Elective courses will include:

> Regulatory Policy, Public Choice and Administrative Law
>
> Homeland Security and the Law
>
> Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Threats

For additional information, Greg Moser can be reached at:
GMoser@co.jefferson.co.us