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As you continue on your path of empowered preparedness and resiliency, we can help you foster growth through higher education, explore our partner training institutions, find training resources for current NDEMU students, learn how to become an NDEMU instructor, and more.

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Resources for the whole community

Take preparedness to higher levels with help from our Higher Education program

Explore the list below to find out about higher education, our training partners, and resources for the whole community.

FEMA Higher Education Program

The mission of the Higher Education Program is to engage academia, emergency management professional organizations, and practitioners to work together to foster a culture of continuous learning and innovation through education and research to meet the challenges that confront the nation.

Higher Education program seeks to bolster our national security and resiliency through collaboration with the capabilities of academia as a well-defined member of our whole community.

If you are interested in pursuing a degree program, the FEMA Higher Education Program maintains an active list of college and university degree programs to help you find your career path in emergency management.

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  • Higher Eduction Program fosters a culture of continuous learning and innovation.
  • NDEMU will work to establish satellite locations with select FEMA Regions and university partners.
  • NDEMU will focus on working with federal, state, local, tribal and territorial government agencies to enable local training opportunities.

NDEMU Training Partners

NDEMU works to provide emergency managers access to training where they are located. Courses may be accessed at various satellite locations throughout the nation, including pre-established training sites, as well as areas where education and training opportunities may be historically underdeveloped. In the future, the NDEMU will work to establish satellite locations with select FEMA Regions and university partners. This is intended to make in-person attendance easier and geographically localize education and training opportunities. NDEMU will continue to offer courses at the National Emergency Training Center campus, as well as mobile deliveries in the field and continue on line and virtual deliveries.

Working with our training partners NDEMU will bring together emergency management professionals, strategic thinkers, policymakers, academics, and researchers to build a continuum of training, professional development, and education, from the beginning of an emergency manager’s career through the most senior executive levels, filling gaps in emergency management training and enhancing the emergency management profession. Consistent with past practices at EMI, NDEMU will provide certificates of course completion, but will not be issue degrees.

State, Local, Tribal and Territorial Partnership

One of the core aspects of NDEMU will be to provide training to emergency management professionals where they are. This means a focus on working with federal, state, local, tribal and territorial government agencies to enable local training opportunities. In addition, NDEMU will expand access to in-person and virtual training and education by establishing satellite locations throughout the nation with FEMA Regions and select university partners and modernizing our e-campus architecture.

Whole Community

Preparedness is a shared responsibility; it calls for the involvement of everyone — not just the government — in preparedness efforts. By working together, everyone can help keep the nation safe from harm and help keep it resilient when struck by hazards, such as natural disasters, acts of terrorism, and pandemics.

The NDEMU School of National Resilience (SNR) will be focused on strengthening the whole community. SNR will combine targeted trainings in the fundamentals of emergency management with deeper dives into disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, and other topics specifically relevant to whole community members. In this way, SNR will serve as a bridge between the emergency management profession and the broader emergency management community.

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Other Training Resouces

FEMA provides world-class training and education for the nation’s first responders and emergency managers and other members of the whole community through a robust enterprise of institutions and partnerships managed by the National Preparedness Directorate’s National Training and Education Division (NTED) and the U.S. Fire Administration (USFA) National Fire Academy.

Explore other avialable FEMA resources for emergency managers & the whole community including:

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Information for Students

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Campus Information

In the future, the NDEMU will work to establish satellite locations with select FEMA Regions and university partners. This is intended to make in-person attendance easier and geographically localize education and training opportunities. NDEMU will continue to offer courses at the National Emergency Training Center campus, as well as mobile deliveries in the field and continue on line and virtual deliveries.

You can find many common student resources here:

In this section:

  • NDEMU will work to establish satellite locations with select FEMA Regions and university partners.
  • The complete list of all NDEMU courses can be found in the national training catalog
  • The NDEMU Student Portal allows students to view their course completions and request transcripts.

National Training Catalog & Schedule

The National Preparedness Course Catalog is an online searchable catalog featuring a compilation of courses managed by the three primary FEMA training organizations: the Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP), the National Disaster & Emergency Managment University, and the National Training and Education Division (NTED). The National Preparedness Course Catalog features a wide range of course topics in multiple delivery modes to meet the increasing training needs of Federal, state, local, territorial, and tribal audiences.

NDEMU curriculum and certificate programs will also indicate all of the courses required for completion of each program. The complete list of all NDEMU courses can be found in the national training catalog:

Student transcripts & certificates

The NDEMU Student Portal allows students to view their course completions as well as print certificates and/or an unofficial student transcript. In addition, students can request an official transcript from the FEMA Independent Study Program (FEMA ISP) office. For more information review the FEMA ISP Information page.

Contact and FAQ

Do you have a question, comment or suggestion? For general information, or information about specific programs please visit our contact us, or frequently asked questions page.

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Resources for Instructors

Resources to help instructors successfully deliver exceptional training

Discover information for course developement and section 508 compliance in teaching

Become an NDEMU Instructor

NDEMU is the emergency management community’s flagship training institute, and provides training to Federal, state, local, tribal, volunteer, public, and private sector officials to strengthen emergency management core competencies for professional, career long training. NDEMU is committed to building a cadre of instructors who are reflective of the diversity of the field of emergency management and current practitioners in the emergency management career field.

NDEMU instructors must have subject area expertise and proven successful teaching experience for the courses they teach. Course-specific requirements for applicant instructors may be found on our instructor page.

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  • NDEMU instructors must have subject area expertise and proven successful teaching experience for the courses they teach
  • Accessibility benefits everyone.
  • Visit our developers resource guide to discover how to develop courses for NDEMU.

Section 508 Compliance in Teaching

Accessibility benefits everyone.

The National Disaster & Emergency Management Univerity and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) are committed to providing accessible Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to individuals with disabilities, including members of the public, disaster survivors and federal employees, by meeting or exceeding the requirements of Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act (29 U.S.C. 794d), as amended in 1998.

Section 508 is a federal law that requires agencies, during the procurement, development, maintenance or use of ICT, to ensure that individuals with disabilities have access to and use of ICT information and data comparable to the access and use afforded to individuals without disabilities (i.e., "ICT accessibility"), unless an undue burden would be imposed on the agency. The law applies to software and hardware with a user interface, all public facing electronic content (web and non-web) and to non-public facing electronic content that is "agency official communication or business" along with support services and documentation.

These same requirements apply to education documents, courses and all ICT povided by NDEMU during training.

Instructors at NDMEU will find the following FEMA Section 508 resources beneficial in meeting the requirements training & document compliance:

Course Developer Resources

The successful development of Independent Study and Resident courses for NDEMU will require following our development workflow, including careful attention to the details of our chosen instructional model, using only our new Learning Content Management System, and inclusive product design following section 508 compliance.

Visit our developers resource guide to discover how to develop courses for NDEMU using the new dominKnow LCMS, our developments standards, templates, and some tips & tricks to help meet the requirements that entail completing a successful course development.

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