FEMA News Photo

The Diva just returned from the 3 day annual Higher Ed Conference, sponsored by FEMA at their training facility in Emmitsburg, MD. For more details about the conference content and attendees, go to this link.  More than 220 institutions in the U.S. teach courses on emergency management and homeland security.  Plus, there were attendees from Canada and a few other countries.

There are many changes occurring and and concerns abound about higher ed in EM, some of which I hope to blog about in future postings.  The year attendance was at an all time high, with more than 400 participants. Copies of many presentations were collected on a CD rather than an oversized loose-leaf notebook.  Presently, the content materials are not on the Higher Ed website. I suggest you write the staff to check on availability of the CD.