FEMA Emergency Management Higher Education Program Vision (Long Version) 1
FEMA Emergency Management Higher Education Program Vision (Long Version) 1 : We foresee a future wherein more and more emergency managers in government as well as in business and industry will come to the job with college education that includes a degree in emergency management. We believe that an emergency management educational experience and foundation will not only lead to a more highly educated emergency management cadre but a cadre which will be more (1) Knowledge and theory-based (2) Executive-level (3) Strategic-thinking (4) Highly skilled (5) Technologically sophisticated (6) Customer-service directed (7) Diverse. We believe that a better understanding of the hazards, disasters and emergency management body of knowledge, implicit in an emergency management higher education experience, will also provide the philosophical foundation upon which future technical training and professional development, as well as the lessons of real-world experience, will better take root so that the emergency managers of the future can better achieve their tasks and missions - for the betterment of their customers, the American people. We envision a future wherein this development will significantly contribute to (1) Transformational and sustained professional capability and competence (2) Disaster loss reduction led by emergency managers who work to develop cultures of disaster reduction, mitigation, prevention and preparedness - out of an awareness that the best operational disaster response capability in the world does little to address the escalating trend of future disaster losses. (3) The development of more disaster resistant and resilient communities through leadership provided by the emergency management professional and higher education communities. (4) Creation of a more professional, capable, networked, customer-service-driven nationale mergency management system. (5) Putting to an end the doubling-to-tripling of disaster losses per decade which has been the recent past, the current condition, and, without successful intervention, the certain future of the United States
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