July 11, 2006 FEMA Emergency Management Higher Education Project Activity Report

(1) DISASTER MENTAL HEALTH COURSE SYLLABUS:

Received today from Dr. Larry Schor, Department of Psychology, University of WestGeorgia, copy of course syllabus on "Disaster Mental Health" to be taught this summer. Forwarded the syllabus to the EMI Webmaster to upload to the EM HiEd Project website -- Syllabi Compilation tab -- where it should be accessible shortly -- scan down to "University of West Georgia" to access.

(2) EM & HS/D HIGHER EDUCATION CONFERENCE JUNE 2006 BOOK PROJECT:

Received today the following note from Drs. Arthur Oyola-Yemaiel, and Jennifer Wilson, Directors of the Emergency Management Program at North DakotaStateUniversity:

"Dear conference participant,

On behalf of the FEMA Higher Education project and North DakotaStateUniversity, Emergency Management Program, we are soliciting papers based on the themes of this year's FEMA Higher Education Conference, 'Catastrophe Readiness and Response.' Selected papers will be peer-reviewed and published as an E-book at the FEMA Higher Education website. Provided there are sufficient numbers of high quality submissions, we may be able to arrange for a publishing house to publish the book in hard copy. Guidelines for paper submissions are as follows:

Title, authors names, contact information Abstract Section subtitles References Endnotes

1 inch margins

12 pt. Times New Roman font

Double spaced

25 page maximum, not including graphs, tables and references APA style, if possible MSWord or text format

Your paper should be based on your conference presentation, dialogue emerging from the break out sessions, issues based on discussions at the conference, and/or your work that may be related directly to the conference theme. Publishing selected papers on the conference topic will provide relevant, quality material in support of emergency management and homeland security/defense higher education and the professionalization of the field as a whole. We sincerely hope that conference participants will contribute to this important effort. If possible please indicate your interest in the project by sending an email as soon as possible with a working title. Submissions should be sent electronically to ith copy to . First drafts of papers will be due August 30th. For information, please contact us at the addresses below.

Sincerely,

Arthur Oyola-Yemaiel, Director ()

Jennifer Wilson, Co-Director ()"

(3) FEMA:

Sobel, Russell S. and Peter T. Leeson. "`Reforming' FEMA Will Fail - Katrina Exposed Flaws in an Overly Centralized Agency. Free Markets Would Do The Job Better." Philadelphia Inquirer, July 11, 2006.

Accessed at:

The article notes that the authors are professors of economics at West VirginiaUniversity and will soon be publishing "Flirting With Disaster:The Inherent Problems With FEMA."

(4) HURRICANE INSURANCE:

Royse, David. "Smith: State Should Cover Part of 'Necessity' of Hurricane Insurance." Associated Press, 11 July 2006. At:

(5) WAR ON TERROR:

Priest, Dana. "Rethinking Embattles Tactics in Terror War - courts, Hill and Allies Press Administration." Washington Post, July 11, 2006.

Accessed at:

B. Wayne Blanchard, Ph.D., CEM

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