Hurricane Katrina: Lessons for Academic Emergency and Disaster Management Degree Programs

The paper presents an overview of higher education response to the training and educational needs of the emerging field of emergency and disaster management by exploring the deepening associations between FEMA and higher education, the recent lessons of the Katrina hurricane disaster and a general discussion of a "full measure" of the philosophy of higher education in action via the development of emergency and disaster educational programs. As a central fundamentally involved social vehicle and having a critical role in the development of citizens and leaders at all levels of private and government organizations, higher education must rise to the needs and challenges of its responsibility to educate, train, and support the first duty in emergency and disaster response. It's not just about tactics; it's about values through performance. (C) 2006 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved.