Please pass this message forward to our HBCUs.
The Emergency Management Institute (EMI), in
partnership with the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and
Universities (WHI-HBCU), is hosting the E390 Integrating Emergency
Management Education into Your Institution By-Invitation. This course was
formerly titled, "Emergency Management Planning, Preparedness, Training
and Education for Colleges and Universities." The desired outcome and
single focus of the new course is to achieve a more diverse population of
emergency management (EM) professionals who reflect the communities in which
they live and work.
This 2-day course is targeted for Historically
Black Colleges and University (HBCU) Department Chairs of EM-related
disciplines such as sociology, geography, public administration, or psychology.
The primary goal of the workshop is to assist TCUs by providing information
about EM and the benefits and resources available for integrating EM course
offerings. It is an interactive workshop focused on creating an action plan to
be applied within each participant’s academic department. Participants will
discuss issues surrounding minority and minority-serving institutions of higher
education and will begin the process of identifying and overcoming
institutional roadblocks to increasing their schools’ EM-related offerings.
The course will be held on the campus of the
Federal Emergency Management Agency’s National Emergency Training Center (NETC)
in Emmitsburg, Maryland – about 75 miles northwest of Washington, DC.
The course is scheduled to begin at 8 a.m. on
Thursday, September 27, and conclude at 5 p.m. on Friday, September 28,
