I spent the past week at FEMA’s Emergency Management Training Institute with 71 county officials and emergency professionals. We attended a four-day course tailored to Humboldt County on responding to ...

Ken Blanchard who is with FEMA and heads up their Higher Education Project at the Emergency Management Institute (EMI), has put together a list of the Top Ten Competencies for Professional Emergency ...

WAUPUN, Wis. (WBAY) - Train derailments, chemical spills, tornadoes, and flooding - those are just some emergencies that would prompt a big response from multiple agencies. Major events were the focus ...

Emergency management has traditionally been a white man’s profession, following a typical progression from military officer, law enforcement officer or firefighter or fire chief to emergency manager.

The Disaster Center Highlights resources related to weather, natural disasters, fires, and newspapers/radio/TV links. Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Response Association (DERA) Highlights ...

The emergency management field can provide extensive career opportunities for transitioning veterans in the public, nonprofit, and private sectors. Some titles that may interest veterans seeking a new ...

Emergency Management (EM) Practitioners and Academicians have been investigating key elements to professionalize and standardize the EM career field for over twenty years. This paper presents findings ...

Here is a fun trivia question to throw out at dinner parties. What was the name of America’s oldest learning institution when it was founded in 1636? The Answer? New College. It was founded by the ...