Welcome to the Department of Emergency Management's homepage. You will find information on news and events within the Department, program requirements and resources for undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, student resources, and a variety of special projects through the subpages of our website.
On this page of the website, you can learn about how we define emergency management as a discipline, our Department's vision, mission, and goals, the history of emergency management at NDSU, and information on how to support the development of our program.
The discipline of emergency management studies how human beings create, interact, and cope with hazards, vulnerability, and associated events. The discipline places special emphasis on the study of how human beings cope with hazards, vulnerability, and associated events through activities related to preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation.
The academic discipline of emergency management serves the profession of emergency management charged with protecting "communities by coordinating and integrating all activities necessary to build, sustain, and improve the capability to mitigate against, prepare for, respond to, and recover from threatened or actual natural disasters, acts of terrorism, or other man-made disasters" (Principles of Emergency Management, 2007, p. 4).
Emergency management professionals are employed at each level of government (e.g., city, county, state, and federal) and within various governmental agencies at each level (e.g., Departments of Emergency Management, Departments of Public Health, Departments of Transportation, Departments of Public Works), domestic and international nongovernmental organizations (e.g., Red Cross, Salvation Army, Lutheran Social Services), and businesses (e.g., Booze Hamilton, Halliburton, and many others).
Through educating students and research, the academic discipline of emergency management also serves a host of other professions such as law, natural resources management, business administration, public administration, social work, and engineering.
The mission of NDSU's Department of Emergency Management, therefore, is to educate people in the emergency management body of knowledge while simultaneously adding to the body of knowledge through research. Specifically, the goals of the Department of Emergency Management are to:
The North Dakota State University Development Foundation now has a separate account for donations to the newly formed Department of Emergency Management.
Those interested in supporting the program can mail checks to the NDSU Development Foundation at 1241 N. University Drive, Fargo, North Dakota 58102. In the subject or notation line of the check you should write Department of Emergency Management.
Gifts can also be made online by going to the Foundation website at: http://www.ndsufoundation.com/ and clicking on the link "Make a Gift Online".