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

\(1\) CAMPUS COMMUNITY EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM PROGRAM \-- UNIVERSITY OF
CALIFORNIA, DAVIS:

Received note, excerpts pasted in below, from Valerie Lucas, Emergency
Management Director, University of California, Davis, concerning an
upcoming Campus Community Emergency Response Team training event at the
University of California, Davis, November 28-30, 2006.

\"Who Should Attend: Campus police, public safety, fire service, EMS,
emergency management, security officers, faculty or other personnel
employed by any public or private college or university who may be
called upon to train or lead campus CERT teams, or teach CERT as a
college course. Current CERT trainers from any local public safety
agency, Red Cross chapter or other NGO that provide services to colleges
and universities are also welcome. As a prerequisite, trainees are
expected to have completed basic CERT training or the online FEMA-EMI
independent study course IS-317 prior to attending this
train-the-trainer program. This regional training session is open on a
first-come, first-serve basis to qualified registrants from agencies or
academic institutions in California, or from any state in the Western
region.

Training Highlights: Building on the standard CERT curriculum adopted by
the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, this three-day Campus
Community Emergency Response Team (C-CERT) Train-the-Trainer Program
includes information and guidelines for teaching and implementing CERT
in the unique context of the campus community. This training is provided
at no cost. Continental breakfast and lunch is provided each day.
However, the grant does not cover any other travel, lodging or per diem
expenses. Registrations for the Program MUST be made no later than
Friday, November 17, 2006\.... contact Tracy Loynachan
<loynacha@msu.edu> (517) 432-0727 or Phill Schertzing (517) 432-3156.\"

\(2\) DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY:

Phillips, Zack. \"One-Hit Wonders.\" Government Executive, October 29,
2006. Accessed at:
[[http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/1006/103006ol.htm]{.underline}](http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/1006/103006ol.htm)

\[Excerpt: \"\...the government must stop coming up with new defenses
against single threats and adopt a more systematic approach to improving
security.\"\]

\(3\) ELMIRA COLLEGE, ELMIRA NY \-- GRADUATE \"EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT\"
PROGRAM APPROVED:

Heard from and talked with Dr. Glen Fried, Dean of Continuing Education
and Graduate Studies at Elmira College \-- near Corning, NY. Dr. Fried
notes that last week the New York State Board of Regents approved the
Elmira College proposal to implement an \"Emergency and Disaster
Management\" concentration within the Masters of Science in Management
Degree. This will be a roughly three-year, cohort oriented, program with
new cohorts to start each Fall and Spring Semester. It is hoped that the
first cohort will begin this-coming Spring Semester (January 2007) with
a now-scheduled \"Crisis Management, Disaster Recovery and
Organizational Continuity\" course and a cohort of 10-15 students. Based
on research and networking the last six months in particular, Dr. Fried
believes that it is not unreasonable to anticipate a mostly private
sector cohort group of this size to come together. An \"open house\" for
this new program is scheduled for November 18th. If successful, as
anticipated, this classroom-based cohort framework may well grow to
incorporate some distance learning flexibilities and perhaps the
development of site specific cohorts \-- i.e., taking a course off-site
to a cohort organized at a company or business site. The Project
Assistant will soon be replacing the description of the Elmira College
EM investigation (\"Programs Being Investigated/Proposed\" section) with
an updated description based on these recent events. In the meantime,
for additional information, Dean Fried can be reached at:

<gfried@elmira.edu>

\(4\) EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING \-- BRANDON UNIVERSITY, CANADA, PRACTICUM
CONTRIBUTION:

Received from John Lindsay of Brandon University, Manitoba, Canada, for
posting on the FEMA EM HiEd Project website, a 16-page paper,
commissioned by the EM HiEd Project, on Brandon University\'s Department
of Applied Disaster and Emergency Studies (ADES) Practicum Program. This
practicum program is cross between a traditional internship and applied
research. As has been noted by the EM HiEd Project many times, our view
is that, in general and recognizing that there are individual
exceptions, it takes a combination of education, training and experience
to make for the professional hazard, disaster, emergency manager of the
21st century. Thus, for collegiate emergency management programs with
traditional college kids as students, in whole or in part, or with
adults without emergency management experience as students, some way of
bringing \"experience\" to their inexperienced students should be a
critical component of programs. This could be via such mechanisms as
internships, disaster exercise participation, service learning
incorporated into courses, and Practicums, such as the one at Brandon
University.

The Brandon University ADES \"case study\" paper has been forwarded to
the EMI Webmaster for upload to the EM HiEd Project website,
\"Experiential Learning\" tab on the left side of the homepage in the
blue column. After clicking on \"Experiential Learning\" click on
\"Field-Based Practicums\" to access John Lindsay\'s paper. Should be
accessible shortly.

We are very much interested in collecting additional material for the
\"Experiential Learning\" section of the FEMA EM HiEd Project website.
While volunteer contributions are especially welcome (given the funding
situation with the EM HiEd Project), we are hopeful of receiving a
budget for the current fiscal year 2007 which will include sufficient
funding in a Micro Purchase Work Order account to commission
contributions. If interested just drop an email or call.

\(5\) FEDERAL CYBER SECURITY SERVICE: SCHOLARSHIP FOR SERVICE:

Received today from Activity Report reader Avagene Moore the following
announcement just passed her way which she thinks some of the readership
would be interested:

\"The Federal Cyber Service: Scholarship for Service (SFS) program,
sponsored by the National Science Foundation, seeks to increase the
number of qualified students entering the fields of information
assurance and computer security and to increase the capacity of the
United States higher education enterprise to continue to produce
professionals in these fields to meet the needs of our increasingly
technological society. The SFS program is composed of two tracks:

\* The Scholarship Track provides funding to colleges and universities
to award scholarships to students in the information assurance and
computer security fields. Scholarship recipients shall pursue academic
programs in information assurance for the final two years of
undergraduate study, or for two years of master\'s-level study, or for
the final two years of Ph.D.-level study. These students will
participate as a cohort during their two years of study and activities,
including a summer internship in the Federal Government. A limited
number of students may be placed in National Laboratories and Federally
Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs). The recipients of the
scholarships will become part of the Federal Cyber Service of
Information Technology Specialists whose responsibility is to ensure the
protection of the United States Government\'s information
infrastructure. Upon graduation, after their two-year scholarships,
recipients will be require! d to work for two years in the Federal
Government. A limited number of students may be placed in National
Laboratories and Federally Funded Research and Development Centers
(FFRDCs). This number shall be set by the program office each year.

\* The Capacity Building Track provides funds to colleges and
universities to improve the quality and increase the production of
information assurance and computer security professionals. Professional
development of information assurance faculty and development of academic
programs can be funded under this track. Proposal Deadline \-- January
29, 2007 (due by 5 p.m. proposer\'s local time).\" Solicitation at:

[[www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf07512]{.underline}](../www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp%3Fods_key=nsf07512)

\(6\) NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION:

Feldman, Noah.\"Islam. Terror and the Second Nuclear Age.\" New York
Times Magazine, October 18, 2006, 17 pages. Accessed at:

<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/29/magazine/29islam.html?_r=1&th=&oref=login&emc=th&pagewanted=print>

\(7\) PANDEMIC:

New York Times. \"Preparing the World for a Flu Pandemic.\" October 29,
2006. Accessed at:

<http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2006/10/29/opinion/edflu.php>

\[Excerpt: \"The World Health Organization\'s new plan for ramping up
the production of flu vaccine is a measure of how unprepared the world
is to cope with an onslaught of pandemic influenza. The plan, conceived
by a group of more than 120 experts, lays out a sensible path toward
vaccine sufficiency - but it will take years to complete and cost up to
\$10 billion\.... both the American and global efforts ought to be
intensified. The Bush administration\'s goal of being able to make
enough vaccine quickly to protect all Americans is also probably four to
five years away. Neither America nor the rest of the world is yet ready
to handle a worst-case pandemic.\"\]

\(8\) WAR ON TERROR \-- AFGHANISTAN:

Rubin, Elizabeth. \"Taking the Fight to the Taliban.\" New York Times
Magazine, 29Oct2006, 11 pages. At:

<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/29/magazine/29taliban.html?th=&emc=th&pagewanted=print>

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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