NCEMHS Overview, Vision Statement, Mission Statement

National Council for Emergency Management and Homeland Security (NCEMHS) Overview, Vision Statement, Mission Statement

September 2016

The National Council for Emergency Management and Homeland Security (NCEMHS) formed to bring together an academic community of faculty, administrators, and students together with the public and private sectors to enhance collaboration with our colleagues on teaching, research, and service learning opportunities in the critical fields of Emergency Management (EM), Homeland Security (HS), and Cybersecurity (Cyber).

Profound issues like climatic change, extreme weather, and turbulent global political and economic conditions pose a challenge to government agencies, local communities, first responders, the private sector, and academics globally. Continued drought, historic flooding, dramatic wildfires, earthquakes, public health emergencies, cybercrime, active shooter situations and other natural and human caused events affect everyone and it is important to direct our academic research and scholarly creative activities to improve global quality of life, safety, and preparedness.  

The purpose of the NCEMHS is to enhance access, availability, and quality of Emergency Management, Homeland Security, and Cybersecurity education, training, service, and research. Additionally, we seek to build collaboration and partnership to enhance and coordinate EM-HS-Cyber education and training programs, faculty/agency/private sector  research needs and development, as well as support community service, engagement, and resiliency efforts.

NCEMHS’s primary means of achieving noteworthy scholastic activities (education, research, and service) is through developing increased collaboration and communication in partnering with institutions of higher education and government agencies (state, local, national), private sector, and Nongovernment Organizations (NGOs).

NCEMHS Vision Statement

The vision of NCEMHS is to lay the foundation for the development of a comprehensive suite of linked Homeland Security, Emergency and Disaster Management, and Cybersecurity education and training academic standards, model curriculum and programs at all levels of education and related research and service initiatives to solve current challenges and innovate new solutions in this critical area of international and national need.  

NCEMHS Mission Statement

The mission of NCEMHS is to develop quality and sustainable academic standards and model curriculum to support Career Pathway programs in partnership with the EM-HS-Cyber professional community replicable at all levels of secondary and post-secondary education.  These templates will be used to create coursework and related professional development opportunities and programs leading to a comprehensive and linked series of EM-HS-Cyber K-12, Associate’s, Bachelor’s, Master’s, Doctoral Degrees and Certificate Programs developed in collaboration with leading academics, practitioners, and the public sector nation-wide to meet educational and workforce needs.