Action Guide for Emergency Management at Institutions of Higher Education

This guide assists campuses in developing and implementing a sound comprehensive emergency management plan. The Action Guide can help personnel from higher education institutions and their partners better understand the field of emergency management within a higher education context, develop and implement an institution’s emergency management plan, and serve as a reference and resource to improve an institutions existing plan. Finally, the guide walks readers through a step-by-step process of how to prevent, prepare, respond, and recover to a wide variety of emergency and crisis situations.