Higher Education Committee

Special Webinar:
Best practices for higher education response to simultaneous disasters during COVID-19 (and How to Adapt Your ShakeOut Drill)

Last year, nearly 22 million people across the country participated in Great ShakeOut Earthquake Drills, including 3.5 million students, staff, and faculty of institutions of higher education.  

But what about this year? Unfortunately, earthquakes may still happen, and your existing plans may not apply to your current environment. This applies to your normal ShakeOut drill plans too, especially if your school will have limited on-campus instruction or continue to have staff and faculty work from home. ShakeOut 2020 can allow your school to practice for when things won’t be as planned, and to encourage earthquake drills wherever your campus community may be – at home across the country, in campus housing, in the office, or in the classroom.

To address these topics, EM Weekly and the Earthquake Country Alliance Higher Education Committee hosted a special webinar with a panel of higher education emergency managers from across the country to learn how they would respond now to an earthquake, how they will be adapting their drills, tips for encouraging broad participation, and how to leverage ShakeOut to meet other goals.

(NOTE: Guidance for higher education ShakeOut participation is available at ShakeOut.org/highereducation, including the minimal requirements for registering your campus population, resources for instructors, and messaging for administrators.)

Webinar Details:

Date: June 24, 2020

Presenters: Sue Fisher (California State University, Fullerton)
Jon Carvell (Arkansas State University)
Mike Colver (Coastline College)
Mark Benthien (ECA and So. Cal. Earthquake Center, USC)

Facilitator: Todd Devoe, EM Weekly and Titan HST

Webinar Resources and Links

Webinar Presentation (PDF)

Webinar Video Recording (Youtube; also view below)

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