Campus Crisis Management: A Comprehensive Guide to Planning Prevention, Response, and Recovery.Campus Crisis Management: A Comprehensive Guide to Planning Prevention, Response, and Recovery By Eugene L. Zdziarski II, Norbert W. Dunkel, J. Michael Rollo & Associates; Jossey-Bass; 384 pp.; $45; www.josseybass.com THE TRAGEDY AT VIRGINIA TECH IN APRIL April: see month. had many institutions reexamining crisis response plans. But as the authors of Campus Crisis Management point out, such review isn't something to be done after the fact but must be a continual practice. "When a crisis unfolds, or a tragedy overwhelms staff and resources, it is not the time to begin making Lists of needed actions. It is not the time to begin searching for that three-ring binder binder: see combine. An earlier Microsoft Office workbook file that let users combine related documents from different Office applications. The documents could be viewed, saved, opened, e-mailed and printed as a group. that some of the staff put together a few years ago after attending a workshop or living through a different experience." Crisis management, they argue, is an ever-evolving process of learning, training, evaluating, and implementing best practices. The book provides an understanding of the impact of environmental crises, facility crises, and human crises, as well as lessons learned. Included are the 1966 sniper See sniping software. attacks at the University of Texas, the 1991 meningococcemia outbreak at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Early years: 1867-1880 The Morrill Act of 1862 granted each state in the United States a portion of land on which to establish a major public state university, one which could teach agriculture, mechanic arts, and military training, "without excluding other scientific , the Seton Hall (N.J.) dorm fires in 2000, and Hurricane Katrina  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. in 2005.
The authors review these scenarios--and many more--while outlining responses to crises and changes made in the aftermath. |
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