# Presentation: 442652

## Kyle Rhone

- Assistant Professor of Emergency Administration and Management

## What’s Happening in Higher Education?

- Student Needs and University Responses.

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## Have you incorporated new perspectives on emergency management into your program (e.g. resistance, resilience, sustainable hazards mitigation, vulnerability, etc.)?  If so, how?

## The Three Es of Prevention

**Engineering, Enforcement, Education**
**Encourage student to become involved with **
**	****LEPC**
**	****SERC**
**	****Building Code  and Land Usage Committees**
**	****Red Cross**
**	****Association of Contingency Planners**

## How has 9/11 changed your program?  

##    It has marketed our program in ways we could not have done otherwise.

   Increase awareness for emergency preparedness on our campus, in our community and in our State.

	Increased calls for internships in the private sector.

**   ****Increase awareness for emergency preparedness on our campus, in our community and in our State.**
**	****Increased calls for internships in the private sector.**

## One Fear

- Everybody is talking about Terrorism.
- Are we are leaving the all hazards approach to planning, response, and training behind?

## Is a balance between academic education and practical training desirable?  Why or why not? 

## EM in the future will need 
Research and Development (Education)
Mitigation
Public Policy
Technology
Practitioners who can learn and apply new theories and ideas in the field. (Training)
Public Education
Technology

**Research and Development (Education)**
**Mitigation**
**Public Policy**
**Technology**
**Practitioners who can learn and apply new theories and ideas in the field. (Training)**
**Public Education**
**Technology**

## Externship

- 150 Contact hours of outside training is required in our program.

## What challenges confront emergency management programs and how can they be overcome (e.g. distance learning, availability of text books, quality internships, etc.)? 

## Challenges with Distant Learning

- Educational Integrity
- Time Management
- Class size
- Socialization and relational skills not honed

## Challenges with Distant Learning

- The Good Stuff!!!
- Great for the Working Professional
- Great for scheduling
- Web-based class management software is great to support traditional classes too.
- Web CT
- Blackboard
- Others?

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## What will your program do in the future to address the specific knowledge, skills and abilities that students and employers demand? 

## Higher Education Conference 2002

- “I believe that emergency management, at least in governmental terms, is not a “thing” but a place or arena where many disciplines converge”  ***(Jim Mullen, Director of Emergency Management City of Seattle.)***
- “...any effective and successful emergency manager is a jack of all trades yet a master of none.” ***(Steven Charvat, Director of Emergency Management Washington DC.)***

## Degree programs should address a broad range of academic disciplines

- Education
- Management theory
- Economic theory
- Sociologic theory
- Public Administration (Budget and Finance)
- Training
- Public speaking
- Plan development
- Team building

## Future improvements

- More research internship opportunities through ATU.
- Continue to develop relationships with practitioners and invite there involvement in our program.
- Continue GIS and other technology integration.
- Promote Critical Thinking through experiential learning opportunities in class and in the field.
- Pursue certification examination for graduates from IAEM and DRII.

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