Building a Statewide Higher Education Educational Partnership in Disaster Management and Homeland Se

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Association for Continuing Higher Education
Building a State-wide Higher Education
Educational Partnership in Disaster Management
and Homeland Security A Model for Interagency
Partnership Dr. Dennis Skip Parks, Dean,
Continuing Education and University
Outreach California Polytechnic State
University Tuesday, November 17,
2009 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Presentation OutlineDONE IN BIG CHUNCKS

• Assessing Californias Needs
• Using a State-wide Approach through Building
  Partnerships
• Initial Programmatic Roll-out
• Using a Financial Self-Support Option
• Next Steps
• Questions and Answers

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First Question Where is Cal Poly?
San Luis Obispo
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• A Few Agencies to Know
• CalEMA California Emergency Management Agency.
• Formed Jan 1, 2009 through the merger of
  Governors Office of Homeland Security and the
  Governors Office of Emergency Services
• CSTI California Specialized Training Institute,
  training branch of CalEMA
• CSU California State University System, 23
  campuses, 460,000 students

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• Need for a State-wide Program
• Received a grant from the Governors Office of
  Homeland Security
• Conducted a State-wide inventory of homeland
  security and disaster management programs in
  California and a gap analysis of whats needed
• A joint project of OES and HS
• Conducted in 2007-2008

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• Need, Cont
• Inventoried Federal, state and local DMHS
  personnel in all 58 counties
• Contacted more than 400 training academies,
  agencies, community colleges, and public and
  private universities

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• Selected significant findings for the CSU
• Public expectation for excellence and
  professionalism in disaster management and
  homeland security is very high
• The DMHS profession is searching for a clear
  identity and purpose
• DMHS is becoming a first choice career path
• Local government and public sector employees are
  demanding higher educational standards
• Unlike the fire service, there is no recognized
  or accredited core curriculum in California

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• There are essentially no associate degree
  programs in D/EMHS
• There are no bachelors degree programs offered
  by public universities. One offered by a private
  university
• Master degrees are very limited in California

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• Because of the shortage of educational programs
  in DMHS, employers are hiring employees with
  alternative degrees and providing additional
  training
• CSTI is the commonly used practitioner training
  site for career professionals in California
• CSTI and FEMA comprehensive programs offer the
  most promise for a guide to developing a
  standardized DMHS certification in California

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Addressing the Problem by Building a State-wide
Network

• CSU Council on Emergency Management and Homeland
  Security (CEMHS)
• A voluntary council of academics and
  professionals interested in the broad areas of
  emergency management and homeland security
• Initial members include CSU Fresno, CSU Long
  Beach, CSU Sacramento, San Diego State
  University, Cal Maritime Academy, and the CSU
  Chancellors Office.
• Cal Poly SLO serving as lead campus for
  state-wide educational programs

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• CEHMS cont
• Stated Educational Goals
• Assess the state of CSU DMHS programs
• Investigate methods to improve availability,
  access, quality and knowledge/skills within the
  CSU
• Researching key educational/training skills
  needed in California
• Strategize how to achieve CSU-wide educational
  and training objectives
• Applying findings toward multi-campus
  applications for California students and the
  future workforce

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• CEMHS cont
• Research and External Grant Goals
• Identify common areas of faculty research
• Facilitate state, county, and local agencies
  areas of common interest and grant opportunities
• Promote system-wide and multi-campus consortia
  grant applications
• Collaborate on basic and applied research

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Rolling Out A Model to Serve California

• CalEMA/Cal Poly Educational Partnership
• Designed to recognize educational programs
  offered by CSTI and Cal Poly and thus the CSU
• First Step - developed a certificate program
  utilizing courses from both
• Has great potential as a model to serve
  California and be replicated in other states
• Developed as a CSU special session program

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Certificate in Disaster Management and Homeland
Security

• DMHS 351 Introduction to Emergency Mgmt in CA
• DMHS 352 Terrorism Understanding the Threat
• DMHS 353 Introduction to Crisis Communications
• DMHS 401 Disaster Recovery
• DMHS 405 Disaster Sustained Operations
• DMSH 432 Disaster Operations Planning
• DMHS 466 Enhanced Exercise Design

May also be used in the masters degree program
http//www.continuing-ed.calpoly.edu/degrees/disas
ter/
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One Certificate but Many Uses

• As a stand alone certificate
• As a minor in the Natural Resources Department
• As a specialization in the BA in
  Interdisciplinary Studies / Adult Degree Program
• Can be transferred to another institution
• All 400 level courses can be applied to the
  Masters of Professional Studies in Disaster
  Management and Homeland Security January 2011

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Delivery Modes

• On-site CalEMA / CSTI and Cal Poly, SLO
• Envisioned Blended,
• CSU, Cal Poly, World-wide

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Certificate Partner Universities

• Fall 2009
• San Diego State University
• Summer 2010
• San Francisco State University

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Using A Self-Support Model

• Continuing and Extended Education units in the
  CSU are financially self-supporting
• i.e. No state general fund support
• Advantages and disadvantages
• Devil or saint depending on ones
• individual perspective
• Transition of summer back
• to self-support is a good example

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Using A Self-Support Model

• Authorized under the Education Code and CSU
  Executive Orders 794 and 802
• Can include everything from a single course to
  completed degree programs
• Referred to as special session
• Basic concept programs run as a special session
  must make a profit and return a percentage back
  to the university for support services

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Using A Self-Support Model

• ADVANTAGES
• The money you make is the money you keep
• Programs do not rely on general fund dollars,
  therefore dont compete for general fund dollars
• Facilitates starting programs in
• bad economic times
• Instructional fees can
• be set program by program

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Using A Self-Support Model

• DISADVANTAGES
• Programs MUST make a profit and contribute back
  to university
• Instructional fees may seem high by California
  standards
• Programs DO NOT contribute to campus FTE targets
  this became an advantage in the past several
  months
• On some campuses, fees may have to be approved by
  a campus fee committee

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Using A Self-Support Model

• Programs offered in special session must still be
  approved/authorized through standard academic
  approval procedures
• Most people outside the CE/EE world dont
  understand special session concept
• Programs are usually offered in a partnership
  between a college of continuing education and an
  academic college
• But not always

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Using A Self-Support Model

• Models of special session vary campus to campus
• Even vary within a single campus four at Cal
  Poly
• Models may blend special session and general fund
  support within the same program
• Often requires a great deal of negotiation
  between partners

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Next Steps

• Expanding the certificate through additional
  partnerships
• Developing and offering additional certificates
  in different and needed areas
• Expanding the use of existing models and policies
• Example resident credit
• Finding new models and ways to increase access
  i.e. blended/online

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Next Steps (cont)

• Developing and/or expanding undergraduate and
  graduate programs
• Seeking creative ways to complement and
  coordinate rather than compete
• Example multi-campus masters in sustainability
• Building on individual campus strengths
• Through CEMHS and other avenues develop funding
  partnerships
• Example COE - UNC

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Next Steps (cont)

• Currently developing a Masters of Professional
  Studies in DMHS
• Developing new online platforms to replace
  face-to-face DMHS exercises
• Using ElluminateLive to develop table-top
  exercises
• Still working on the clash of cultures in
  training and education approaches
• Eg use of the word certificates

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SO WHY DO WE NEED TO PREPARE FOR EMERGENCIES AND
DISASTERS?
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Because...

• The Nation is Depending on Us!

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• Time for Questions
• For additional information on Cal Polys programs
  
• GO TO
• http//www.continuinged.calpoly.edu/degrees/disast
  er
• For additional information on CEHMS
• GO TO
• http//www.calstate.edu/cemhs