HIGHER EDUCATION PROGRAM

HIGHER EDUCATION PROGRAM

NATIONAL EMERGENCY TRAINING CENTER ? EMMITSBURG, MD

NATIONAL TRAINING AND EDUCATION DIVISION / NATIONAL TRAINING AND EDUCATION SYSTEM

Program News for the week ending January 10, 2020

Table of Contents Message from the Higher Education Program Manager ....................................................................................................1 Higher Education Program Updates...................................................................................................................................2 College List ........................................................................................................................................................................4 Employment .......................................................................................................................................................................5 Internships, Scholarships and Training ..............................................................................................................................6 Resources ...........................................................................................................................................................................7 Calendar .............................................................................................................................................................................7

Message from the Higher Education Program Manager

Happy New Year Emergency Management Higher Education Academics & Friends!

It's 2020! It's hard to believe it's 2020. I remember growing up in the early 80s and thinking about what life would be like in the year 2020. Would we be like the Jetsons or Star Trek? Would we all have robots? Would we take our meals in pellets? Would we have personal aircraft? Well, it's not exactly where my imagination took me then, but life has change dramatically! Even since my first `emergency management' event of Y2K- things have changed. I would say today more people have access to further emergency management knowledge than ever before. Every event we learn, we document, we discuss, we share, we debate, and we focus on what we can do better. We think about what emergency managers need to know and figure out how we can learn and teach it. This discipline is ever evolving- just this week I received a message inquiring about the development of emergency management as it relates to space and extraplanetary colonization. I expect in the next 40 years the emergency management academic discipline will be interesting, exciting, challenging as topics emerge, life and systems change.

As our year begins, we are fortunate to welcome Ms. Lisa Lofton as the new branch chief responsible for activities that engage academic programs and education within the National Training & Education Division (NTED). She comes to us with 30 years of experience working for FEMA. For the seven years prior to joining us, she served as the senior policy analyst for the National Preparedness Directorate. In this position she led the collaborative development of a strategic framework with senior leaders, and their regional counterparts, who oversee 490 personnel and $321 million annually to help people prepare for disasters. In prior FEMA position she researched and designed plans to increase preparedness for national security emergencies, reviewed legislative requirement, developed resources for the National Advisory Council, the FEMA Administrator and other agency leadership. She has a meta view of the highest levels of FEMA

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strategy and will be able to help ensure that education requirements and academic capabilities are integrated and coordinated to support FEMA mission activities.

Ms. Lofton has served as a branch chief for the National Preparedness Assessment Division & the National Exercise Division. Her support and knowledge of the operational environment brings a rich perspective for us to discover additional opportunities for the emergency management academic discipline community of practice to engage. In her new role, she will provide leadership and support to the FEMA Higher Education Program (HiEd), the Center for Homeland Defense & Security (CHDS), the National Domestic Preparedness Consortium (NDPC) and the Continuing Training Grant (CTG). We will also continue to work closely with the National Training and Education System ((NTES) team within the National Training & Education Division. The HiEd team is excited to learn and grow with our new leadership and look forward to her meeting many of you at the upcoming 2020 Emergency Management Higher Education Symposium!

Higher Education Program Update

The EM Higher Education Community Conference Call is Friday, Jan. 17, 2020, from 2-3 p.m. Eastern Time, 800-320-4330, PIN: 376368. Please join us. Learn from the emergency management academic community about what is new and exciting in their world. Find out about ongoing projects and discuss higher education community needs that the Higher Education Program can address. Contact Wendy Walsh, wendy.walsh@fema., with your discussion topics.

Higher Education Program Webinars - The Higher Education Program regularly hosts webinars for the emergency management higher education academic community. If you have a pertinent topic or idea suggestion, contact Wendy Walsh (wendy.walsh@fema.).

Upcoming Hi Ed January webinars:

SoTL Focus Group at the AERA Conference Application Opportunity, January 22, 2020, 2:00 pm ? 3:30 pm ET The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Special Interest Group (SIG) is soliciting interested participants from the Emergency Management and Homeland Security higher education community to apply for a special project targeted at improving teaching and learning in the disciplines. The project includes the development of three teams that will each produce a publishable manuscript around an issue that seeks to inform the delivery of HS/EM education.

The teams will attend the American Education Research Association (AERA) conference in San Francisco, CA (April 17-21) and attend a mix of sessions that both inform the work of the group and contributes to personal professional enrichment. In addition to attending conference sessions, meetings of the teams or full group will occur through the course of the conference. Applicants must commit to conference attendance, additional team meetings, and pre and post-conference collaboration on a manuscript.

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Applicants must have previous successful peer-reviewed publication in HS or EM, preferably related to teaching and learning. In addition, experience with curriculum and course development is preferred. Each team will have a lead that will determine the topic and assign roles within the work group.

In addition to an overview of this project and application process, the webinar will cover the requirements for contracting with the FEMA Higher Education Program.

Presenters: Dr. Carol Hackerott, North Dakota State University Dr. Mark Landahl, University of Maryland Global Campus Wendy Walsh, Higher Education Program Manager

Registration ()

Conference Call-In: 1-800-320-4330, PIN: 376368# Full announcement

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Disaster Resilience Design Syllabus, January 28, 2020, 2:00 pm ? 3:30 pm ET The FEMA Higher Education Program has collaborated with Dr. Gavin Smith of North Carolina State University to support the development of a sharable syllabus to enable faculty to integrate disaster resilient design into emergency management curricula offerings.

This webinar presentation will focus on a description of the disaster resilient design syllabus to include a discussion of the: 1) purpose and process of developing the syllabus, 2) goals and objectives, 3) class flow, readings, cases & project, 4) exercises and discussion questions and 5) assessment and evaluation.

Dr. Smith will provide an overview of the resources he developed, which include a course slide deck and instruction guide and share other relevant resources on the topic of disaster resilience design.

Presenter: ? Gavin Smith, North Carolina State University

Moderator: ? Wendy Walsh, Higher Education Program Manager

Registration () Conference Call-In: 1-800-320-4330, PIN: 376368# Full Announcement

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Special Interest Groups (SIGs). FEMA's Higher Education Program encourages the organization of SIGs to support the increased exchange of knowledge in specific areas and applications of emergency management education. A SIG will provide a forum within the higher education community to bring together people who have a common curiosity, serving as a focal point for community development. SIG members can potentially become involved in co-authoring/researching and serving as mentors to students and as subject-matter experts to practitioners. Click here for more information and a list of SIGs (). To join a SIG, send an email to Barbara Johnson at Barbara.Johnson3@fema..

The 22nd Annual Emergency Management Higher Education Symposium, June 1-4, 2020, will be held at the National Emergency Training Center (NETC) in Emmitsburg, MD. Information is here on the Hi Ed website ().The 2020 symposium theme is "Imagination, Improvisation, and Innovation in Emergency Management Education." ? New - Applications for the 2020 Hi Ed symposium will be submitted to Admissions online only. The

application and instructions can be found on the Hi Ed's website symposium page (). Postal mail, faxed, or scanned applications will not be accepted by Hi Ed staff or the Admissions office.

o Symposium course code: E8510 and date: 6/1-4/2020. o Please note when completing the online application, the application will time-out after 15 minutes o Make sure you put in the proper country. This section defaults to the United States. o Applicants do not need to send the application to a supervisor. Applicants can sign off for

themselves. ? Call for Submissions for the 2020 Hi Ed symposium will be opening Feb. 3 with a March 1 deadline. A

webinar, explaining how to complete the submission form, how detailed the information should be is scheduled for February 4--webinar details will be in upcoming newsletters.

College List

The College List, located at , is an invaluable and comprehensive online resource that showcases the development of programs at all levels of study in the emergency management higher education community, as well as homeland security and related fields of study. This includes public health, international disaster relief, and humanitarian assistance. Information for the College List is stored in a program database for analysis and management, ensuring that it stays up-to-date and relevant. Higher Education Program staff do not provide college recommendations or discuss the relative merits of the colleges and universities listed. If you have a new or updated program to include, send an email to fema-emi-collegelist@fema..

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NEW Programs:

? Columbia International University - BS in Disaster Relief and Emergency Management ? Columbia International University - MA in Disaster Relief and Emergency Management ? Columbia International University - Minor in Disaster Relief and Emergency Management

Employment

Federal Emergency Management/Homeland Security Vacancies: ? Emergency Management Specialist (Recovery), IC 11-12, CLOSE 1/23/2020, FEMA-20-KSR335656-CORE (), Charleston, WV (2 Vacancies) ? Supervisory Emergency Management Specialist, GS 14, CLOSE 1/23/2020, FEMA-20-HJ-327526DE (), Washington, DC (2 Vacancies) ? Emergency Management Specialist (Situational Unit Leader), IT 2, CLOSE 1/13/2020, FEMA-20KLL-333967-IMAT (), Oakland, CA (2 Vacancies) ? Epidemiologist, GS 12-13, CLOSE 1/13/2020, HHS-CDC-D5-20-10680549 (), Atlanta, GA (Many Vacancies) ? Epidemiologist, GS 13-14, CLOSE 7/3/2020, HHS-CDC-OD-20-10679646 (), Multiple Locations (Angola, Benin, Bangladesh, Botswana)

Higher Education Vacancies:

? Northern Kentucky University () - Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Cybersecurity

? Grand Canyon University () - Faculty - Cybersecurity - College of Science, Engineering and Technology

? University of Maryland University College (

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Adjunct-Faculty_10010256) - Cybersecurity Management and Policy, Undergraduate School - Adjunct Faculty ? Keiser University () - Criminal Justice Instructor ? Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey () Epidemiologist/Instructor ? Wheaton College

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8a78859f6ee9a612016f0fd7888868cd&source=) - Humanitarian & Disaster Leadership

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? University of Washington () - Disaster Preparedness and Toxicology (2 positions)

Other Vacancies: ? New England Commission of Higher Education

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Internship, Scholarship and Training Opportunities

Northern Arizona University (NAU), Flagstaff, AZ, School of Forestry, Mountain Campus, Human Dimensions of Forestry program at the is inviting applications for one (1) fully-funded, four (4)-year Graduate Fellowship to work on an interdisciplinary research focused on the role of forest landscapes in the resilience of Navajo (Din?) Nation. The Fellowship is expected to start in August 2020. The review of applications will start on January 15th, 2020 until the candidate is finalized. Interested applicants, please contact: alark.saxena@nau.edu

The International Honors Program of the School for International Training is currently recruiting Traveling Faculty for our IHP Climate Change: The Politics of Land, Water, and Energy Justice for either or both Fall 2020 & Spring 2021. We are an academically rigorous, multi-country study abroad program for undergraduates from across U.S. colleges and universities. Job posting and application instructions

(

5fcb05de82e2&lang=en_US&sid=d29ybGRs&type=MP).

Virtual Student Federal Service (). Students (both grad and undergrad students) can participate. Through the Virtual Student Federal Service (VSFS) program, students can work on projects that advance the work of government on multiple fronts. Projects include helping counter violent extremism, strengthening human rights monitoring, developing virtual programs, engaging in digital communications, mapping, economic and political reporting, data analysis, graphic design, and app building. For more information and to apply ().

Applications are now open for the NHERI Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program. The 10-week summer opportunity is open to U.S. citizens and permanent residents enrolled in an undergraduate degree program. We encourage all students interested in mitigating the effects of natural hazards to apply! The application will remain open until February 1, 2020 at midnight. Details and online application ().

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Resources

The Disaster Information Management Research Center Disaster Lit?: Database for Disaster Medicine and Public Health () database has recently been updated, and is now available.

Edscoop Communication is Critical Before an Emergency, Says University CIO (

is-critical-before-an-emergency-says-university-cio/)

Domestic Preparedness Preparing for the Next Pandemic () Triggered Collapse, Part 1: A Nation Unprepared ()

Inside Higher Ed Free College With Grants for Basic Needs () Students' Sense of Belonging Varies by Identity, Institution (). New research highlights the differences in students' sense of belonging by race, institution type and first-generation status. The Case for an Institutionally Owned Knowledge Infrastructure (). The many bottlenecks that the commercial monopoly on research information has imposed are stimulating new strategies. Ten Higher Education Predictions for a New Decade (). Colleges closing, NCAA transformation and more.

Calendar

Opportunity to participate in the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Conference In an effort to advance the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) within the Emergency Management and Homeland Security disciplines, FEMA's Higher Education Program is sponsoring a group of faculty to prepare for, attend, and report on selected elements of the AERA Conference. Six selected faculty will attend the American Education Research Association (AERA) conference in San Francisco, CA (April 17-21) and attend a mix of sessions that both inform the work of the group and contributes to personal professional enrichment. In addition to attending conference sessions, meetings of the teams or full group will occur through the course of the conference. Applicants must commit to conference attendance, additional team meetings, and pre and post-conference collaboration on a manuscript as well as contribute to a report out at the FEMA Emergency Management Higher Education Symposium in June. Applicants must have previous successful peer-reviewed publication in HS or EM, preferably related to teaching and learning. In addition, experience with curriculum and course development is preferred. Each team will have a lead that will determine the topic and assign roles within the work group. We strongly encourage faculty who are developing, delivering and evaluating emergency management/homeland security academic programs to apply.

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To obtain an application, send an email to Dr. Caroline Hackerott (caroline.hackerott@ndsu.edu). A webinar will be held on January 22nd from 2-3:30 to discuss the opportunity, process and expectations. All applications must be received by February 5th. Drs. Caroline Hackerott, Mark Landahl, and Cameron Carlson are leading this initiative and will review applications. Notifications will be sent to all applicants by February 21st. Webinar announcement (

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National Hurricane Conference, April 6 ? 9, 2020, Orlando, FL. The primary goal of the National Hurricane Conference () is to improve hurricane preparedness, response, recovery and mitigation in order to save lives and property in the United States and the tropical islands of the Caribbean and Pacific. In addition, the conference serves as a national forum for federal, state and local officials to exchange ideas and recommend new policies to improve Emergency Management.

? Three full days of workshops and training sessions on a wide range of topics for Hurricane Responders.

? A full day of general session speakers including many of the nation's top experts in hurricane related issues.

? EMI and FEMA Certificate Training courses and rap sessions.

For more information and to register ()

Registration Now Open: 2020 National Earthquake Conference (NEC) () - March 4-6, 2020, in San Diego, CA. The dynamic agenda will feature the first public release of results from a new earthquake scenario and risk study for the San DiegoTijuana region. Developed by experts over the last five years, the scenario will showcase the impacts and consequences of a potential magnitude 6.9 earthquake on the Rose Canyon fault that runs through the San Diego harbor. The scenario will open the conference and is sure to be one of the highlights along with findings/lessons learned from the Ridgecrest earthquake (July 5, 2019), and the aftershock sequences.

NEC provides a unique opportunity for engagement and sharing amongst representatives from all levels of government, National Earthquake Hazard Response Program agencies, academia, building code experts, engineers, businesses, design/build professionals, first responders, geologists, local emergency managers, insurance and reinsurance professionals, private sector practitioners, U.S. State and Territorial Earthquake Managers, and volunteers.

For more information and registration ()

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