universitIes & colleges
special interest Committee
The mission of the Universities & Colleges Committee is to represent the emergency management issues
surrounding college and university campuses. Although they are a part of the communities in which they
reside, higher education institutions take on special and sometimes unique considerations when
preparing their students, faculty, staff and visitors for responding to, recovering from and mitigating
against emergencies. The purpose of this committee is to provide emergency managers from higher education institutions a voice on a national and international scale to ensure their needs are also being addressed by government and industry officials.
The IAEM UCC maintains a repository of information, plans, documents, templates and literature for the higher education campus Emergency Management practitioner. The repository is maintained by UC Davis at http://safetyservices.ucdavis.edu/emergency-management/dru. It is populated with information posted on the DRU (Disaster Resistant University) listmail or provided by DRU list members. The information is not vetted or endorsed and is posted as received. For more information, contact Valerie Lucus at vjlucus@ucdavis.edu.
The DRU Listserv is intended for university and/or college emergency management professionals to share information and engage in discussions and dialogues related to the profession and emerging issues around campus emergency management. The DRU Listserv is hosted by the University of Oregon Emergency Management Program.
 IAEM-USA Universities & Colleges Committee (UCC) Continues to Update its Higher Education H1N1 Flu Map, as Traffic to the Site Continues to Grow (06/10/09)
IAEM-UCC Chair Dave Bujak and IAEM-UCC 1st Vice Chair Brendan McCluskey continue to make regular updates to the Higher Education H1N1 Tracking Map at http://tinyurl.com/HigherEdH1N1Map. Kyle Clayton, an intern of Dave's, conducted a comprehensive review of all current entries and made changes based upon content published on each institution's Web site. Please remember that this map is only as good as the content submitted to us. We encourage everyone to check the map regularly, especially with respect to your institution's entry, and submit any updates, additions or corrections to us.
We are quickly approaching one-half of a MILLION viewers. Note that Google reports individual viewers based upon IP address, and not repeated clicks/views by the same person. This implies that nearly 500,000 separate people have viewed the map!
IAEM-USA Universities & Colleges Committee (UCC) Extends the Scope of its Higher Education H1N1 Flu Map (05/05/09) After receiving tremendous feedback from numerous people, IAEM-USA-UCC has made a number of improvements to the Higher Education H1N1 Flu Map. The address remains the same: http://tinyurl.com/HigherEdH1N1Map.
Version 2.0 now features the following additional information:
- Campus operational status: partial closure, total campus closure, events cancelled, campus reopened
- Sporting event status
- Travel restrictions
- Study abroad program status
- Commencement, Convocation, Graduation alterations / cancellations
- Quarantine
- Clinics
- Infirmaries
- Advisories
- Notes
- News Items
- Photos
- Videos
- Webcam feeds
Each item includes a link to the appropriate reference source. As before, the success of this map is dependent on the flow of data we receive to populate it. Please forward additions/corrections to dbujak@fsu.edu or mccluske@umdnj.edu.
IAEM-USA Universities & Colleges Committee (UCC) Creates Map to Track H1N1 Cases on Higher Education Campuses (04/29/09) The International Association of Emergency Managers Universities and Colleges Committeee (IAEM-UCC) has produced a Google Map which tracks the cases of H1N1 Influenza on college and university campuses in the United States and Canada.
The map is available at: http://tinyurl.com/HigherEdH1N1Map.
The map is derived with information shared by our peers on our Disaster Resilient Universities (DRU) list serve and from the U.S. Department of Education Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools (OSDFS). Information is verified with each affected university's web site, which is cited and linked on the map.
Additions/corrections to the map may be directed to dbujak@fsu.edu.
IAEM-USA Assists in Development of FEMA’s ICS-100 for Higher Education Training Course (24 Mar 2009)
IAEM-USA and the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators Sign Joint Letter to U.S. Dept. of Education on Proposed Rulemaking to Implement Sections of the Higher Education Opportunity Act (10/01/08)
Federal Agency Report Presented to U.S. President on School Safety Issues Raised by Virginia Tech Tragedy (06/20/07)
Higher Education Opportunity Act Amendments
During the IAEM 2008 Mid-Year Meeting, the Universities & Colleges Special Interest Committee drafted an issue paper recommending that the IAEM Board support certain provisions of S.1642 and reject certain provisions of H.R.4137 and H.R.5735 as they related to the Higher Education Act. IAEM President Mike Selves, CEM, moved, seconded by Russ Decker, CEM, to adopt the position and to give the Committee approval to take action consistent with the concepts presented. The motion passed by unanimous vote on June 7, 2008.
On Aug. 14, 2008, President George W. Bush signed legislation to renew the Higher Education Act.
IAEM-UCC members participated at the EMI focus group
for planned new ICS-100 for Higher Education Institutions
training program, Aug. 20-21, 2008, McLean. Virginia.
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