Aligning Institutions of Higher Education emergency preparedness plans with the National Response Framework

Colleges and universities must be prepared to respond to events that could compromise the safety of any person in a classroom, residence hall, office, or any other campus facility as well as for any event that could jeopardize the continuation of use of any campus facility. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) states, “Higher education institutions ... are realizing that improving their campus’ resistance to disaster will not only protect their own lives and those of their students, it will also safeguard their campus’ instruction, research, and public service.” The US Department of Homeland Security, FEMA developed the overarching strategy, the National Response Framework (NRF), for emergency preparedness for “government executives, private-sector and nongovernmental organization leaders.” FEMA and the Department of Education (DOE) developed specific guidelines for emergency preparedness for colleges and universities. This study linked these guidelines to the five principles of the NRF. Most institutions have an emergency preparedness plan, but just how effective are these plans? Do community colleges, state, independent, and proprietary institutions differ in terms of their level of emergency preparedness? The target population for this study is colleges and universities in the United States. This quantitative study measured how aligned the emergency preparedness plans of these colleges and universities are to the recommendations of FEMA and the US DOE, Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools. The data suggest that much more needs to be done to bring college and university emergency plans into alignment with the government recommendations. Alignment with the government documents for this sample of US colleges and universities is extremely low for each principle of the NRF.

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The Globalization of Postsecondary Education: The Role of International Students in the US Higher Education System

The Journal of Economic Perspectives ◽

10.1257/jep.35.1.163 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 35 (1) ◽

pp. 163-184

Author(s):

John Bound ◽

Breno Braga ◽

Gaurav Khanna ◽

Sarah Turner

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Postsecondary Education ◽

The United States ◽

Colleges And Universities ◽

Higher Education System ◽

Highly Educated ◽

Mediating Role ◽

The Us ◽

Student Demand ◽

Type Of Institution

In the four decades since 1980, US colleges and universities have seen the number of students from abroad quadruple. This rise in enrollment and degree attainment affects the global supply of highly educated workers, the flow of talent to the US labor market, and the financing of US higher education. Yet, the impacts are far from uniform, with significant differences evident by level of study and type of institution. The determinants of foreign flows to US colleges and universities reflect both changes in student demand from abroad and the variation in market circumstances of colleges and universities, with visa policies serving a mediating role. The consequences of these market mechanisms impact global talent development, the resources of colleges and universities, and labor markets in the United States and countries sending students.

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Winning the Argument and Moving the Fight: The Legacy of a Grassroots Humanitarian

Public Voices ◽

10.22140/pv.24 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 115

Author(s):

Mary Coleman

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

United States ◽

Winning Strategy ◽

Supreme Court Decision ◽

The United States ◽

Colleges And Universities ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

The Political ◽

Political Actors ◽

Trade Offs

The author of this article argues that the two-decades-long litigation struggle was necessary to push the political actors in Mississippi into a more virtuous than vicious legal/political negotiation. The second and related argument, however, is that neither the 1992 United States Supreme Court decision in Fordice nor the negotiation provided an adequate riposte to plaintiffs’ claims. The author shows that their chief counsel for the first phase of the litigation wanted equality of opportunity for historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), as did the plaintiffs. In the course of explicating the role of a legal grass-roots humanitarian, Coleman suggests lessons learned and trade-offs from that case/negotiation, describing the tradeoffs as part of the political vestiges of legal racism in black public higher education and the need to move HBCUs to a higher level of opportunity at a critical juncture in the life of tuition-dependent colleges and universities in the United States. Throughout the essay the following questions pose themselves: In thinking about the Road to Fordice and to political settlement, would the Justice Department lawyers and the plaintiffs’ lawyers connect at the point of their shared strength? Would the timing of the settlement benefit the plaintiffs and/or the State? Could plaintiffs’ lawyers hold together for the length of the case and move each piece of the case forward in a winning strategy? Who were plaintiffs’ opponents and what was their strategy? With these questions in mind, the author offers an analysis of how the campaign— political/legal arguments and political/legal remedies to remove the vestiges of de jure segregation in higher education—unfolded in Mississippi, with special emphasis on the initiating lawyer in Ayers v. Waller and Fordice, Isaiah Madison

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Can India’s Higher Education Improve Through Better Management of Human Resources: A Comparative Study of India and the United States

Indian Journal of Human Development ◽

10.1177/00699667211063846 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 006996672110638

Author(s):

Jai Mohan Pandit ◽

Bino Paul

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Performance Management ◽

The United States ◽

The Other ◽

Hrm Practices ◽

Other Hand ◽

Global Standards ◽

The Us ◽

Education In India ◽

Recruitment And Selection

This study investigates human resource management (HRM) practices in higher education institutions (HEIs) based on a comparative analysis of India and the US. Although higher education in India has grown over the decades, its quality, in general, has not kept up with global standards. On the other hand, many US universities have performed consistently well in international university rankings. Based on qualitative research collected from principal stakeholders of HEIs in India and the US, HRM practices and policies followed by them are presented and discussed. Data collection for the research study was through web interviews during the period August–October 2020. The study reveals that Indian public HEIs do not have professional HRM teams. Also, they are in a formative stage in autonomous and private institutions. On the other hand, many HEIs in the US have developed mature HRM systems. This difference resonates in attributes such as structure of HRM, recruitment and selection processes, training and development programmes, performance management, career progression and talent retention.

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The Future of Turkey - United States Relations

Jurnal ICMES ◽

10.35748/jurnalicmes.v2i2.24 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 179-196

Author(s):

Firmanda Taufiq

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

Economic Interests ◽

The Us ◽

The Future ◽

Foreign Policies ◽

The Government ◽

The Cold War ◽

Role Of The Government

Throughout 2018, relations between Turkey and the United States seemed to deteriorate. The leaders of the two countries issued sharp diplomatic statements and the US even imposed economic sanctions on Turkey. This article aims to analyze how the future of relations between Turkey and the United States. Cooperation between the two has a long historical side after the Cold War. Relations between the two countries are based on various interests, both economic, political, military and security interests. The theory used in this study is the theory of national interest. The US has great interests in the Middle East and Turkey is the front-line ally in achieving those interests. However, there are many US foreign policies that ignore the Turkish concern and create tensions between the two countries. On the contrary, Turkey also has considerable economic interests, but the role of the government elite (in this case, President Erdogan) has a significant influence in the determination of Turkish foreign policy. The findings of this study, although it will go through complex challenges and processes, the US and Turkey will continue to maintain their relations.

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Warlords, the United States, and the state of anarchy in Afghanistan

Central European Journal of Politics ◽

10.24132/cejop_2021_1 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Ahmad Shah Azami

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

State Building ◽

The State ◽

Negative Consequences ◽

Human Rights Abuses ◽

Illegal Mining ◽

The Us ◽

The Government ◽

The Impact

As part of its “War on Terror”, the United States (US) provided immense sums of money and advanced equipment to Afghan warlords in order to defeat and dismantle the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. Nearly two decades after the 2001 US-led intervention in Afghanistan that toppled the Taliban regime, the US continues supporting the warlords in various ways. As the intervention was also aimed at establishing a functioning state and reconstruction of the war-torn country, the US needed the support of local warlords to achieve its goals. However, over time, warlords and warlordism became a major challenge to the postTaliban state-building project and in many ways undermined the overall security and the state monopoly on violence. These warlords, who had been mostly expelled and defeated by the Taliban regime, returned under the aegis of the B52 bombers, recaptured parts of the country and reestablished their fiefdoms with US support and resources. They not only resist giving up the power and prestige they have accumulated over the past few years, but also hamper the effort to improve governance and enact necessary reforms in the country. In addition, many of them run their private militias and have been accused of serious human rights abuses as well as drug trafficking, arms smuggling, illegal mining and extortion in the areas under their control or influence. In many ways, they challenge the government authority and have become a major hurdle to the country’s emerging from lawlessness and anarchy. This paper explores the emergence and reemergence of warlords in Afghanistan as well as the evolution of chaos and anarchy in the country, especially after the US-led intervention of late 2001. It also analyzes the impact of the post-9/11 US support to Afghan warlords and its negative consequences for the overall stability and the US-led state-building process in Afghanistan.

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MANDATORY DEATH PENALTY IN THE GLOBALIZED WORLD

Journal of Foreign Legislation and Comparative Law ◽

10.12737/19202 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 0-0

Author(s):

Ирина Нагорная ◽

Irina Nagornaya

Keyword(s):

Death Penalty ◽

The United States ◽

Global Trend ◽

The Us ◽

Us Supreme Court ◽

The Subject ◽

Points Of View ◽

The Government ◽

Globalized World ◽

Further Development

The subject of this research is the death penalty as a mandatory punishment for the most serious crimes in the United States, Asia and the Caribbean and corresponding constitutional problems. The author analyses foreign courts’ judgments and foreign researchers’ points of view. The author considers the influence of the jurisprudence of the US Supreme Court on the countries with similar legal systems, the importance of legal thought in other countries for further development of law-enforcement practice in a particular region and the globalized world. The author analyzes inconsistent position of Singapore, as well as the indecisiveness of the government of Malaysia, because until recently these two countries were fervent supporters of the mandatory death penalty in the Commonwealth. The author supports the global trend towards the abolition of the mandatory death penalty and the fact that the “Asian values” are not an insurmountable barrier to achieve this goal.

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Academic Libraries in For-Profit Schools of Higher Education

College & Research Libraries ◽

10.5860/crl-179 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 72 (6) ◽

pp. 568-582 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Jinnie Y. Davis ◽

Mignon Adams ◽

Larry Hardesty

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Academic Libraries ◽

The United States ◽

Colleges And Universities ◽

Library Services ◽

Profit Motive ◽

Proprietary Schools ◽

For Profit ◽

Proprietary Colleges ◽

Considerable Controversy

For-profit schools constitute the fastest-growing sector of higher education institutions in the United States.1 Yet accompanying the phenomenal growth of these proprietary colleges and universities has been considerable controversy over the role that the profit motive should play in higher education.2 The literature of higher education contains increasingly more works about proprietary schools. The library literature, however, offers little in this arena. Through this article, the authors seek to introduce the library readership to U.S. for-profit colleges and universities. We summarize their history and their characteristics, and we explore reasons for their success and present areas in which these schools appear to excel. With regard to their library services and resources, we focus on issues of concern based specifically on our experience with academic libraries in proprietary schools operating in the state of Ohio. Finally, we suggest ways in which these for-profit institutions can address the challenges faced by their libraries.

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Benchmarking Online Learning Practices in Higher Education

Virtual Learning Environments ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-0011-9.ch508 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 1005-1018

Author(s):

Julie A. Ray

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Online Courses ◽

The United States ◽

Colleges And Universities ◽

Course Management Systems ◽

Degree Programs ◽

Instructor Training ◽

Learning Practices ◽

State Area ◽

Selection Of

Colleges and Universities across the United States have experienced an unprecedented growth in the availability of and demand for online courses and degree programs in the recent years. However, this medium for instructing is still relatively new compared to other traditional forms of instruction. Therefore, an overall lack of research on the online medium exists. This study benchmarks the practices of colleges and universities in the tri-state area of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia on factors that contribute to the selection of Course Management Systems (CMS), the availability and/or requirements for instructor training, and the evaluation or lack thereof of online courses. A total of thirty institutions participated in this mixed methods study.

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