Higher Ed Emergency Management Grant Winners Announced

September 19, 2010 CS Staff

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Education has provided an updated list of the Emergency Management for Higher Education (EMHE) grant winners for fiscal year 2010.

The winners are:

ALABAMA
Auburn University
Auburn, Alabama
$708,471

COLORADO
Pikes Peak Community College
Colorado Springs, Colorado
$476,355

ILLINOIS
Joliet Junior College
Joliet, Illinois
$521,787

INDIANA
Indiana University
Bloomington, Indiana
$642,847

Purdue University
(Purdue University Calumet)
Calumet, Indiana
$486,281

MASSACHUSETTS
Emmanuel College on behalf of the Colleges of the Fenway
Boston, Massachusetts
$512,081

Tufts University
Medford, Massachusetts
$503,138

MISSOURI
Missouri Southern State University
Joplin, Missouri
$401,981

NEVADA

College of Southern Nevada
Las Vegas, Nevada
$756,474

NEW YORK
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York
$587,684

Sullivan County Community College
Loch Sheldrake, New York
$284,435

OHIO
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, Ohio
$568,090

TENNESEE
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Chattanooga, Tennessee
$499,252

TEXAS
University of St. Thomas
Houston, Texas
$245,694

WASHINGTON
Clark College
Vancouver, Washington
$744,402

Western Washington University
Bellingham, Washington
$512,742

WISCONSIN
Milwaukee Area Technical College
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
$791,439

The EMHE grant program supports institutions of higher education (IHE) projects designed to develop, or review and improve, and fully integrate campus-based all-hazards emergency management planning efforts. A program funded under this absolute priority must use the framework of the four phases of emergency management (Prevention-Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery) to:

Develop, or review and improve, and fully integrate a campus-wide all-hazards emergency management plan that takes into account threats that may be unique to the campus;
Train campus staff, faculty, and students in emergency management procedures;
Coordinate with local and State government emergency management efforts;
Ensure coordination of planning and communication across all relevant components, offices, and departments of the campus;
Develop a written plan with emergency protocols that include the medical, mental health, communication, mobility, and emergency needs of persons with disabilities, as well as for those individuals with temporary special needs or other unique needs (including those arising from language barriers or cultural differences);
Develop or update a written plan that prepares the campus for infectious disease outbreaks with both short-term implications for planning (e.g., outbreaks caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) or food-borne illnesses) and long-term implications for planning (e.g., pandemic influenza);
Develop or enhance a written plan for preventing violence on campus by assessing and addressing the mental health needs of students, staff, and faculty who may be at risk of causing violence by harming themselves or others; and
Develop or update a written campus-wide continuity of operations plan that would enable the campus to maintain and/or restore key educational, business, and other essential functions following an emergency.

Typical activities included in grantee programs include reviewing and revising existing emergency management plans; conducting vulnerability assessments of campus facilities and grounds; providing training to campus staff, faculty and students; organizing tabletop exercises or large-scale drills; improving on-campus communications; collaborating with local first responders and community partners; and developing or enhancing behavioral threat assessment processes on campus.

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