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Global Disaster Management Program Comes to Millersville University

Unique global collaboration with the University of Reading

university-of-readingA new partnership agreement between Millersville University (MU) and the University of Reading in Reading, United Kingdom will provide a unique global collaboration between MU’s Emergency Management program and Reading’s two new graduate programs in Disaster Law and Global Crisis, Conflict and Disaster Management.

Dr. Kirsten Bookmiller of government and political affairs and Dr. Sepi Yalda of earth sciences hosted Dr. Katja Samuel from the School of Law, University of Reading, on the Millersville campus last semester. Both Bookmiller and Yalda are involved with the Center for Disaster Research & Education (CDRE) at Millersville.

This partnership combines Reading’s strengths in research and theoretical perspectives and its emphasis on international assistance with MU’s focus on domestic emergency management from an operational, practitioner vantage point. In addition, it will allow for an exciting integration of European and US perspectives in the field.

“The partnership will give MU and its CDRE/MSEM unparalleled international visibility given Reading’s global reputation,” said Bookmiller.

Students in residence at the University of Reading for Reading’s graduate programs will be able to simultaneously pursue MU’s new 15 credit Graduate Certificate in Emergency and Disaster Management (EDM), which will be available 100% online like its parent MS in Emergency Management (MSEM) program. Reading will count Millersville’s EM courses toward the completion of Reading’s programs.

“Our students at Reading [in the United Kingdom] will receive practical experience from our counterparts at Millersville on best practices within the U.S. on domestic disaster management, while we provide a theoretical perspective and a view of international humanitarian assistance,” said Samuel.

Both universities will cooperate to provide other international opportunities in the area of disaster management, including practical training, research, simulation exercises, non-credit seminars and consulting and grant applications.

Millersville offers a master of science in emergency management, a joint master’s degree in social work and emergency management; and a bachelor’s in multidisciplinary studies with a concentration in environmental hazards and emergency management.

For more information contact Dr. Bookmiller or Dr. Yalda or visit http://www.millersville.edu/cdre/ for more information.

 

 

 

 

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