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IAEM-USA members interested in participating in this caucus should email the caucus staff liaison and tell them how you can contribute to or learn from this committee's important work.
The purpose of the IAEM-USA Universities & Colleges Caucus (UCC) is to represent emergency management issues surrounding college and university campuses. Although they are a part of the communities in which they reside, higher education institutions take on special and sometimes unique considerations when preparing their students, faculty, staff and visitors for responding to, recovering from and mitigating against emergencies. The purpose of this caucus is to provide emergency managers from higher education institutions a voice on a national and international scale to ensure their needs are also being addressed by government and industry officials.
Only members of IAEM are eligible to be members of the Universities and Colleges Caucus. To be eligible to hold office in the caucus, and participate in the selection process for caucus officers, you must be a member of the IAEM-USA council and be an emergency management practitioner for an institution of higher education. To join the caucus, please complete the online form.
An “emergency management practitioner” is defined by the caucus rules as a university or college employee who has been designated by his or her administration with a primary role in administering emergency preparedness and management functions at their institution.
This is our premier 2-day practitioner symposium for higher education emergency managers. It is held the Saturday and Sunday prior to the annual IAEM conference. The weekend program will be filled with lessons learned and insights from peers in our profession. The program agenda talks and events is currently being developed. You won’t want to miss out on this year’s symposium in Long Beach. Here is the information to register: https://www.iaem.org/usconf
The UCC uses an online collaboration tool named Basecamp to share information, documents, an events calendar, and advance the goals of the caucus. All caucus members who are emergency management practitioners are provided access to Basecamp, including the UCC repository, a place where practitioners can share documents such as response plans, exercise plans, job descriptions, and after action reports. Access Basecamp at https://basecamp.com.
Beginning in 2014, a work group of UCC members researched and developed a mutual aid process for colleges and universities to share resources across the United States. By summer 2015, the process led to the development of what is now known as the National Intercollegiate Mutual Aid Agreement (NIMAA). The NIMAA is open to any institution of higher education who is willing to join.
2019 IAEM-USA Universities & Colleges Caucus Symposium, IAEM Annual Conference, Savannah, Georgia
2018 IAEM-USA Universities & Colleges Caucus Symposium, IAEM Annual Conference, Grand Rapids, Michigan
The UCC Symposium was not held in 2020 and 2021 because of the Covid-19 global pandemic.
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