The Civil Defense Staff College opened on April 1, 1951 with the intention of teaching civil defense courses due to anxiety over the Cold War. Concerns about a potential attack led the college to relocate the campus from Olney, Maryland, to St. Joseph’s campus in Battle Creek, Michigan.
When FEMA was created in 1979, the Civil Defense Staff College joined with several other federal agencies focused on disaster response, including the Defense Civil Preparedness Agency.
In the same year, the Civil Defense Staff College closed and merged its programs and students with the National Emergency Training Center. President Jimmy Carter dedicated the former Mount Saint Mary’s University, in Emmitsburg, Maryland, as the FEMA National Emergency Training Center.
The training center was changed to the Emergency Management Institute, a broader name to include the National Fire Academy and reflect the nation’s readiness posture. The Emergency Management Institute was moved from Battle Creek, Michigan to Emmitsburg, Maryland a year later; and in 1981, the institute held its first class.
When Hurricane Andrew devastated portions of South Florida, Louisiana, and the Caribbean in 1992, the urgency to address the training implications for emergency managers at all levels of government was highlighted. After careful consideration, it became apparent that the institute could no longer serve as both a training and an educational institution.
To address this, FEMA develop a plan to transition the institute’s educational mission to colleges and universities to foster a higher level of commitment to emergency management. A year later, FEMA launched the Emergency Management Higher Education Project. The name of was changed in 2008 to Emergency Management Higher Education Program.
At that time, only three higher education institutions offered emergency management programs. This repositioning encouraged and supported the teaching of emergency management in colleges and universities across the country to help ensure that the next generation of emergency managers come to the job with a degree in emergency management
In 2017, the Higher Education Program was reassigned from the Emergency Management Institute to the National Training and Education Division at FEMA headquarters to raise the profile and expand the reach of the program. The move also helps build closer relationships with FEMA’s training and education programs.
Today, there are more than 721 emergency management programs around the nation and the globe. In 2020, there were about 8,000 graduates who earned an emergency management degree; nearly half of graduates move on to public sector emergency management positions. More than 50% of faculty are part-time and nearly 30% of faculty have an emergency management practitioner background.
Emergency managers are integral to our efforts to protect the nation: with their experience and support, our homes, families and communities are safer and more resilient.
Having the tools, resources and space available to train these professionals is critical. The ability of the Emergency Management Institute and the Higher Education Project to provide these is vital to the country’s future.
The Emergency Management Institute will be hosting a 70th anniversary on its website in the upcoming weeks. Stay tuned for upcoming notices and events.
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