**April 29, 2008 FEMA Emergency Management Higher Education Program
Report**

**(1) Emergency Management Higher Education Conference, June 2-5, 2008
-- Notes:**

Received confirmation today from Mary Waller, Learning and Development
Branch, Human Capital Division, FEMA, to the effect that the Human
Capital Division has accepted our invitation to set up a Hiring
Information Table at the EM HiEd Conference, and will provide
information on the FEMA Career Internship program as well as how to
apply for positions within FEMA and to seek to answer any
employment-oriented questions. This service should be of value to the
emergency management educators attending the conference as well as the
potentially more interested emergency management students who will be in
attendance. Not too late for other emergency management college students
to apply to attend -- in that the Admissions Office has **not** informed
us that all the free (to U.S. citizens), on-campus, dorm rooms have been
allocated. The URL for more information, including application form, is:
<http://training.fema.gov/emiweb/edu/educonference08.asp>

**(2) Emergency Management Student Testimonials:**

Received the following from North Dakota State University -- which will
also be uploaded to the "Student Corner" section of the EM Hi-Ed Program
Website, "Testimonials" subsection:

In my short tenure as a Ph.D. student in the Emergency Management
Program at North Dakota State University (NDSU), I have gained valuable
knowledge, insight, and experience in the emergency management
discipline via educational and real-world instruction, training, and
exercise implementation. The faculty has instilled a 'people centered'
mind-set and has established strong ties in the emergency management
community that have increased opportunities for students to participate
in federal, state, and local emergency management activities.

From a sociological perspective, my general coursework has provided
well-rounded, holistic views of the four phases and eight principles of
emergency management. The program has provided tremendous course
flexibility and unwavering personal support in pursuit of my doctoral
degree. For example, I expressed academic and career interests in
continuity of operations (COOP) and pandemic influenza planning. Through
NDSU and the program, I was provided the following opportunities: I
received training in *WebEOC*, Living Disaster Recovery Planning System
(*LDRPS*) and *Notifind* (Emergency Notification System). I was aided in
obtaining positions as a business continuity planner for an
international contract research organization and the NDSU COOP team. I
attended the North Dakota Department of Emergency Services Private
Sector Pandemic Flu Seminar and the Minnesota Governor's Homeland
Security and Emergency Management Conference. I was also involved in
writing a COOP plan for a local public school, an assessment of
Extension Disaster Education Network (EDEN) *Ready Business* teaching
modules, a media campaign for the Community Preparedness Toolbox, FEMA
Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) training, and several disaster
tabletop exercises.

The program kept me very busy my first two semesters and the learning
will continue into the summer semester. Beginning in May, nine graduate
credits are offered this summer in classroom study, field studies, field
work (real-time disaster response if a regional disaster occurs) and for
distinguished guest lecturer Lucien Canton. In June, a number of
graduate students will attend and present at the 11^th^ Annual FEMA EMI
Emergency Management Higher Education Conference. After the conference,
an NDSU team will facilitate a functional state level exercise in
partnership with local and state emergency management. In July, the NDSU
campus will be the site of a full-scale Homeland Security exercise;
students in the program will serve as exercise evaluators. Did I mention
that this was only my first year at NDSU?

The NDSU Emergency Management Program is dedicated to providing students
with a solid theoretical and methodological background in emergency
management and facilitating real-world opportunities and experiences
through student participation in field training and exercises,
internships, fieldwork, professional organizations and professional
conferences. The program faculty has extended the curriculum beyond the
classroom and the students have benefited greatly from the academic and
practitioner-friendly approaches. NDSU is a great place to be!

Alex Cole-Corde

Ph.D. Student

Emergency Management Program

North Dakota State University

**(3)** **Email Backlog:** Unresponded to emails in the am -- 532; in
the pm - 508.

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\
<http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/edu>

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