Dec 12, 14:00 - 15:00 (ET)
Higher Education Academician Caucus The purpose of the IAEM-USA Higher Education Academician Caucus is to create a space for emergency management researchers and professors to coordinate with FEMA’s Higher Education Program to share and contribute to improving the emergency management profession. Caucus initiatives include providing increased networking opportunities for IAEM member researchers and professors, enhancing IAEM’s efforts to professionalize emergency management through discussions on a Code of Ethics and other contemporary issues, providing a voice within IAEM for the researchers and professors that are teaching future emergency managers, and providing advice to IAEM leadership on matters relating to higher education for emergency managers. Examples of Initiatives: Recommendations for a Lead Organization to Oversee EM Accreditation Processes Issue Paper on Professionalization Recommendations for Accreditation and Professionalization Documents and Processes Subgroup Development in the Following Topics: Accreditation Professionalization