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Building and Maintaining your Emergency Management Program

Building and Maintaining your Emergency Management Program. Associate’s Degree, Diploma And Certificates Steve Ebsen: Division Chair Public Services Western Iowa Tech Community College Sioux City, Iowa. Demographics of the college. Established 1966 as a vocational school

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Building and Maintaining your Emergency Management Program

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  1. Building and Maintaining your Emergency Management Program Associate’s Degree, Diploma And Certificates Steve Ebsen: Division Chair Public Services Western Iowa Tech Community College Sioux City, Iowa

  2. Demographics of the college Established 1966 as a vocational school Current enrollments 6700 credit and over 50,000 non credit (7) AS degrees (3) ASCO degrees (46) AAS degrees (38) diplomas (66) certificates

  3. More data Serving 6 county area Campuses located in 5 municipalities Service area population approx. 175,000 Site of “United Flight 232” crash- 1989 with 111 fatalities. Competition: (at time of program creation) None in South Dakota, Nebraska or Iowa at 2 yr level

  4. Funding the start up Title III grant to the college to start three new programs. Provided for full time instructor/curriculum person, secretary and supplies. DACUM (develop a curriculum) conducted with industry professionals. Task analysis and then courses developed

  5. Challenges Grant did not allow for marketing Education of public/ college personnel as to what emergency management was Traditional students did not want to become managers. Prefer to be first responders. Marketing attempted to working adults. Many of those had schedule conflicts with college calendars

  6. Challenges cont. Lack of internship availability Hybrids don’t accommodate online students Formal education not required for many positions Professional Development Series is often the only requirement

  7. Program Accreditation March 2008 the EDM program earned Accreditation by the Foundation of Higher Education Accreditation (FoHE) based on meeting 23 standards of excellence. Full time instructor left to pursue higher educational levels. College replaced with adjunct instructors. Course work then moved to an online format.

  8. Current Status Enrollments now consist mostly of working adults seeking: career advancement or a change of employment. Much interest in converting work experience to credit. (military, law enforcement, fire, ems) Training is often close, but does not line up course by course – so “Technical EDM” developed.

  9. Technical EDM Can bring in 27 credits of related training Select 24 credits of EDM courses Select 15 credits of general eds. Serves well for our area, when the EM’s serve multiple roles and need experience in lots of fields.

  10. Enrollments Older Working adults Part time Many have Bachelors degree already Often from distant areas, including over seas Maintaining numbers, but limited change

  11. Placement County Emergency Managers Business Continuity type positions private industry Managers of businesses – sometimes not related Public Health Hospitals Security Transfer to 4 year programs with 2+2 agreements

  12. Non-Credit Status US Dept. of Labor grant (Homeland Security) To increase numbers of credit students and provide training for area responders in the HS fields. 3 year grant – ending Dec. 2011 Currently at 1300 Participants Over 13,000 trained (capacity building) Over 80,000 hours of training provided

  13. Non-Credit Status Credit enrollments have increased Graduates have increased All training is transcripted and available to convert to credit to apply toward a degree/diploma Grant has benefited area responders, of which the majority are volunteers Many applying their training toward the EDM program

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  15. Challenges Marketing/Recruiting Education of what EM is and job duties Employment – (won’t happen to me!!) Most EM’s in Iowa are half time Graduates who won’t leave the area for employment

  16. Contact Steve Ebsen 712-274-8733 ext. 1232 Steve.Ebsen@witcc.edu http://www.the-security-institute.org/ www.witcc.edu/programs

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