Homeland security educationNew issues of the Journal of Homeland Security Education is available online

The latest issue of the Journal of Homeland Security Education is out. It contains a number of articles relevant to the teaching of homeland security practices, which is now one of the top ten majors for undergraduates in the United States.

Among the articles in the current issue:

• Steve Recca, director of Partnership Programs for the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) Center for Homeland Defense and Security, comments on the state of homeland security education, in his “Homeland Security Education: Reading the Tea Leaves.”
• Linda Kiltz, assistant professor of public administration in the Master of Public Administration Program at Texas A&M, argues that higher education homeland security and emergency management programs should be collaborative, integrated, and should involve multiple disciplines. In “The Benefits and Challenges of Integrating Emergency Management and Homeland Security into a New Program,” Kiltz highlights the benefits and challenges of an interdisciplinary approach to EM-HS education.
• In “Training and Education for First Response Emergency Personnel: An Examination of Physical Fitness Requirements for the State of California and the Federal Government,” Lita Megan Grace, adjunct professor at Chabot Community College, examines physical fitness requirements for first responder agencies within California and for the Federal government.
• There are also reviews of two new textbooks: Introduction to Homeland Security Education by Logan and Ramsay, and Business Continuity and Homeland Security by McIntyre and Hancock