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Idaho State University's Homeland Security and Emergency Management degree program offers three fully online (asynchronous) degrees including an Associate of Science, Bachelor of Science, and Master's degree with courses starting every 8 weeks.We’re facing new threats like extreme acts of violence, intense storms, aging infrastructure, and system failures that have a direct impact on life safety. These threats, require new approaches and plans to keep the public safe. It’s essential for those working in homeland security and emergency management positions to leverage new technologies and build relevant core competencies. Investing in yourself to earn an advanced degree and certifications will improve your job prospects and ability to enhance your career and open new doors. Our students explore emerging technology, systems thinking and sensemaking, and policy and crisis leadership. The wide variety of careers with a nexus to homeland security provides flexibility. That means your HSEM degree from ISU is transferable to many different careers without starting over.

Idaho State University's Homeland Security and Emergency Management degree program offers three fully online (asynchronous) degrees including an Associate of Science, Bachelor of Science, and Master's degree with courses starting every 8 weeks.We’re facing new threats like extreme acts of violence, intense storms, aging infrastructure, and system failures that have a direct impact on life safety. These threats, require new approaches and plans to keep the public safe. It’s essential for those working in homeland security and emergency management positions to leverage new technologies and build relevant core competencies. Investing in yourself to earn an advanced degree and certifications will improve your job prospects and ability to enhance your career and open new doors. Our students explore emerging technology, systems thinking and sensemaking, and policy and crisis leadership. The wide variety of careers with a nexus to homeland security provides flexibility. That means your HSEM degree from ISU is transferable to many different careers without starting over.

Idaho State University's Homeland Security and Emergency Management degree program offers three fully online (asynchronous) degrees including an Associate of Science, Bachelor of Science, and Master's degree with courses starting every 8 weeks.We’re facing new threats like extreme acts of violence, intense storms, aging infrastructure, and system failures that have a direct impact on life safety. These threats, require new approaches and plans to keep the public safe. It’s essential for those working in homeland security and emergency management positions to leverage new technologies and build relevant core competencies. Investing in yourself to earn an advanced degree and certifications will improve your job prospects and ability to enhance your career and open new doors. Our students explore emerging technology, systems thinking and sensemaking, and policy and crisis leadership. The wide variety of careers with a nexus to homeland security provides flexibility. That means your HSEM degree from ISU is transferable to many different careers without starting over.

The Emergency Services Department offers the Bachelor of Science in Health Sciences degree with a concentration in Emergency Medical Services (EMS). This concentration meets the needs of students who already have an associate’s degree in Paramedic Science, students interested in Emergency related career fields, or as an option for pre-PA and pre-med students. Students may take many of the courses either in the classroom or online. Regardless of residency, all online classes are charged at the affordable in-state tuition rate.

We partner with communities to listen deeply, plan collaboratively, and build lasting resilience that starts with trust and ends with action.Our vision is a future where universities, communities, and practitioners collaborate to create place-based solutions that help communities, especially rural and under-resourced ones, adapt, thrive, and remain resilient through change.

The NDPTC is a member of the National Domestic Preparedness Consortium (NDPC), which was expanded in 2007 to address all-hazards capabilities by the addition of the University of Hawai`i. The NDPTC is authorized to develop and deliver training and educational programs related to homeland security and disaster management, with a specific focus on natural hazards, coastal communities, and the special needs and opportunities of islands and territories. The NDPTC actively engages internally with FEMA and the University of Hawai`i, as well as with external partners across the region to integrate the delivery of its trainings, products, and services.

The Institute for Sustainability and Resilience (ISR) provides campus-wide leadership and coordination for interdisciplinary education, research, and outreach related to climate change, environmental sustainability, and community resilience in Hawaiʻi and beyond. ISR:Equips students with the knowledge and skills to address critical local and global environmental challenges.Conducts collaborative research to address the climate crisis and other environmental change.Supports community engaged research on social-ecological systems.Brings communities and other decision-makers together to share knowledge about environmental sustainability and community resilience.

Pacific Disaster Center (PDC) is a leading scientific innovator of global risk reduction science and technology. As a University of Hawai’i applied science and research center, our work intersects with a variety of government, community, academic, and scientific organizations at home and around the world to build resilience to natural and man-made hazards, assess risk, and enhance the capacity to quickly and accurately anticipate and prepare for new and emerging threats.Our innovations in multi-hazard early warning systems, predictive analytics, data science, and machine learning provide decision-makers with the powerful tools and insights they need to navigate today’s complex and interconnected risk landscape.Bringing decades of experience in rapid, multi-dimensional risk analyses across diverse domains, we. can help you identify cross-cutting risks and mitigation strategies to enhance safety and stability in support of:- humanitarian and disaster response (HADR) operations- resource allocation- logistics- training and exercises- public awareness