Radford University Radford , Virginia

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Radford UniversityRadford , Virginia
Academic Continuity
Dr. Dennie TempletonExecutive Director of
Emergency Preparedness Dr. Gary
Ellerman Professor Emeritus, Radford University
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Four Phases of Emergency Management
IHE
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Higher Education Challenges

• NYU
• UCLA
• University of Oregon
• University of Hawaii
• Virginia Institutions

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HE Chronology of Incidents

• 1970 University of Wisconsin - Madison bombing
• 1972 Hurricane Agnes
• 1983 Hurricane Alice
• 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake
• 1994 Cal State Northridge earthquake
• 1999 Texas AM bonfire collapse
• 2000 Seton Hall University fire
• 2001 University of Washington arson
• 2001 Tropical Storm Allison
• 2003 James Madison University fire
• 2005 Hurricane Katrina
• 2005 Hurricane Rita
• 2007 Virginia Tech massacre
• 2007 Pepperdine University fire
• 2008 Union University tornado
• 2008 Northern Illinois University
  shooting
• 2008 Louisiana Tech shooting
• 2008 Indiana earthquake
• 2008 Southern Arkansas train
  derailment

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Instructional Disruption

• Violence on campus
• Weather
• Technology
• Pandemic

Tulane University
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Disaster planning
Response
Disaster Recovery
Aftermath
BusinessContinuity
Campus Safety and Security
Preparedness
IT Systems
Institutional Resilience
Student readiness
Continuity
Faculty readiness
Mode of instruction
OperationalContinuity
Academic Continuity
Advising
Learning Mgmt System
Scalable courses
Library
Special needs populations
Sloan-C International Symposium
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Strategic StrategiesSloan-C International
Symposium 2008

• Develop academic emergency plans as facility/IT
  plans are being formulated
• Develop a plan for re-establishing institutional
  Web sitesfast
• Develop student continuation plansonline
  learning should be a key component
• It is difficult to develop online courses or to
  undertake faculty training in a crisis

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• Develop a set of guiding policies and obtain
  policy commitments. Include
• Admission to another institution
• Tuition and fees
• Financial Aid
• Credit transfer/recognition
• Course completion/extension of terms

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Approaches

• Assessment of resources
• Faculty skills and expertise
• Communication
• What do you already do well ?
• Learn from the past
• Alternative delivery
• Emergency management
• Partnerships

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Distance Education

• Out of the box teaching
• Multiple instructional tools
• Instructional challenge
• Faculty choice
• Training Plan
• Practice

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Distance Education Relevance to Institution

• Current users
• Level of practice
• Required ?
• Minimum standards
• Survey
• Emergency and Non emergency benefits
• Avoid all or nothing approach

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Faculty/Staff Concerns

• Out of the box teaching
• Technology competency
• Increased work load
• Student knowledge
• Evaluations
• Choices..

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Student Concerns

• Knowledge of technology
• Comfortable with alternative instruction
• Grades

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Academic Continuity

• the continuity of teaching and learning, in
  particular, is not usually on the emergency
  management radar screen, despite the fact that
  this is the core business of higher education.
  (Schweber, 2007)

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continued

• academic continuity is a process that serves to
  sustain and maintain teaching and learning during
  a crisis situation, whether a natural disaster, a
  man-made disaster, or some precipitating
  factor.(The Sloan Consortium, 2008)

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The Radford University Model

• Derived from a model created by Farleigh
  Dickinson University
• A web-based resource that is accessible to
  faculty as a means of providing access to
  instructional, tools, regardless of the level or
  understanding and skills they posses with regard
  to the use of technology.

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The Radford University Model

• The model is designed in a manner which
  facilitates customization as appropriate to the
  unique academic mission of any university.
• Continuing in the spirit of the work completed by
  FDU, anyone who adheres to the guidelines
  established by the Creative Commons Attribution
  Share-Alike Non-Commercial License version 3.0 is
  free to use, edit, and redistribute the content
  on the Radford University site consistent with
  specific provisions.

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We will now look at the live Wiki Academic
Continuity web site