The number of emergency-management programs in higher education has jumped from about 70 in 2001 to at least 232 now, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency. In 1995, the year after FEMA began encouraging the development of new academic programs to supplement training at its Emergency Management Institute in Maryland, there were just five. In addition, there are now at least 112 “homeland security” programs, which focus mainly on terrorism — all of them begun since 9/11.
State University of New York is offering a course in emergency management and disaster response according to The New York Times. These programs have multiplied as a result of recent terrorist activities and weather disasters such as the Hurricane Katrina. I don't know what to make of it really.
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