24th FEMA Higher-Ed Symposium: Emergency Management Higher Education Symposium NETC Emmitsburg, MD, United States, June 6-9, 2022 |
Conference website | https://training.fema.gov/hiedu/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=24thfemahigheredsymp |
Abstract registration deadline | April 1, 2022 |
Submission deadline | April 1, 2022 |
Introduction
The 24th Annual Emergency Management Higher Education Symposium will be hosted on June 6–09, 2022. FEMA’s Higher Education Program, within the National Training and Education Division will host this educational gathering.
Higher education is a primary vehicle for preparing emergency managers and growing the emergency management profession. Over the past 20+ years, extraordinary strides have been made in the development of the emergency management academic discipline, yet many challenges remain as the higher education community works to deliver a relevant, equitable, scalable, cost-effective education.
The emergency management discipline stands to advance significantly further and faster using more robust research and engagement methods. The academic research community has developed a robust body of knowledge, incorporating approaches capable of informing relevant education issues for myriad emergency management audiences. Access to such research and practice is a critical component of the evolutionary process given the expanding demands on Emergency Management Higher Education.
Aligned with this year’s theme of “Coming Together to Chart a New Path: Empowering the Higher Education Community to Create Transformational Change” the Symposium’s emphasis on professional learning will:
- Host dialogues, activities, and tools to explore the development and teaching of of empowering the Higher Education community to create transformational change.
- Offer workshops to hone the instructional, research, and program development skills of faculty.
- Share relevant and useful knowledge throughout the community to mentor faculty, students, and thewider profession.
- Showcase successful programs and highlight new and effective resources that promote continuousquality improvement.
Tracks
The presentation submissions for this year must be applicable to the faculty development focus. The template for submissions can be found here. Each submission must fall into one of the following five categories:
- TRACK 1: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) in Emergency Management
- The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning is an inquiry of student learning at the post-secondary level which can, in turn, advance the practice of teaching. Much of SoTL research is outside the discipline of emergency management and homeland security. Submissions for this track should address all or some of the following: trends, gaps, opportunities and/or challenges, benefits, applicable pedagogical/andrological theories and tools, program and course assessment, online learning, and/or creating and maintaining community partnerships in SoTL specific to emergency management and homeland security.
- TRACK 2: Research Methodology and Integration
- Submissions for this track should address current research integration into emergency management curricula, applicable research methods to promote the exploration and understanding of relevant emergency management topics, and/or techniques for teaching research methodology in emergency management and homeland security programs.
- TRACK 3: Policy and Administration of Emergency Management
- Submissions for this track should include successful approaches, practices, and challenges related to policy development and program administration of emergency management and homeland security programs. This can also include the administration and policy development and challenges that may come with administering blended programs that integrate emergency management programs with other disciplines such as public health, homeland security, criminology, and public administration. Other topics for this track include securing jobs and internships, program sustainability, and student and faculty recruitment.
- TRACK 4: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
- The need to diversify the practice of emergency management is an all hands on deck situation. Submissions to this track can include anything from successful EDI-driven initiatives, failures or lessons learned, and anything in between.
Submission Guidelines and Review Process
You will be asked to include details pertaining to the presenters, type of presentation, session length, and a brief summary of the activity or presentation topic. Be sure to complete all of the required sections of the template. For your initial submission, please keep your submissions anonymous. If your paper is not properly anonymized, it will not be accepted. In addition to completeness, each submission will be assessed by an independent review committee using the following criteria:
- Relevance: The proposal must demonstrate alignment with at least one of the conference tracks.
- Evidence-Based or Practice-Based: The proposal must clearly demonstrate an evidence- or practice-based approach. If the presentation involves new research, the proposal must outline how the study informs the existing body of knowledge.
- Clarity and Quality: The proposal must clearly outline the featured topic and main concepts and ideas that will be featured in the presentation. (Please quality control your proposal for spelling and grammar).
- Innovation: The topic should introduce new ideas, methods, and/or approaches that promote new knowledge and have the potential to contribute to the field.
- Focus: The topic should contribute to knowledge on broader issues of evaluation methods, theories, policies, and practices that have value to a wide community in contrast to presenting findings of a specific evaluation.
Submitting persons/teams will be notified of their acceptance, conditional acceptance, or rejection no-later-than mid-April 2022.
Compensation
No compensation or travel expenses are provided for presenters.
Important Dates
Deadline for Submissions: March 25, 2022 Notification of Acceptance: April 8, 2022 Submission of Support Materials for Print (if applicable): May 2, 2022 Submission of Camera-Ready Presentation (if applicable): May 2, 2022 Symposium Registration Deadline: April 18, 2022