SEATTLE -- The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, as well as earthquakes and World Trade Organization protests, have led colleges to take a serious look at emergency management as an academic discipline.

Community and technical colleges serve as an extension of the community and play a pivotal role in defining their community’s culture of preparedness, as well as planning for disasters and emergencies ...

Doug Wintemute is a staff writer for Forbes Advisor. After completing his master’s in English at York University, he began his writing career in the higher education space. Over the past decade, Doug ...

New College of Florida recently hired Luis Suarez as its first director of emergency management. Suarez previously served as an emergency management officer with Manatee County government. In that ...

Colleges in Maricopa County are among nearly 100 schools nationwide offering new courses in homeland security and emergency management, something critics say is adding to the explosion of so-called ...

Key representatives of the College’s primary functional areas make up the Campus Emergency Management Team (CEMT). CEMT members and alternates meet regularly to prepare for any conceivable campus ...

An apprenticeship program proposed by Frederick Community College, which would develop a pool of potential employees in the emergency management field, has received state approval. The Maryland ...

Smith College uses an all-hazards approach to emergency management and emergency preparedness. It’s impossible to prepare for every single emergency that may occur, and it’s equally impossible to ...

How can American colleges and universities serve as emergency infrastructure in fighting the Covid-19 pandemic? Here are eight ideas. As colleges cancel on-campus activities, send their students home, ...

Key representatives of the College’s primary functional areas make up the Campus Emergency Management Team (CEMT). CEMT members and alternates meet regularly to prepare for any conceivable campus ...