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 ...

FEMA has announced the agency is establishing a new university called National Disaster & Emergency Management University (NDEMU) to help train emergency managers to keep pace with the rapidly ...

WASHINGTON - Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Craig Fugate announced that current FEMA Region VI Administrator Tony Russell was selected to become the new Superintendent of FEMA's ...

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 ...

Like all professions, emergency management has evolved throughout the years to become what it is today — a defined field of work that’s paving a career path for future employees. The modern concept of ...

The FEMA Emergency Management Institute’s (EMI) Curriculum Management Branch offers the Independent Study Program (ISP). This is a distance learning program which offers training, free of charge, to ...

Emergency management is a field dedicated to creating frameworks that help communities reduce their vulnerability to different types of disasters and cope with their aftereffects. These threats may ...

Many articles are written about all of the disciplines in the public safety sector, and both fire operations and EMS have been the focus of many available journals. Yet, emergency management has been ...