Are You Prepared for the 2007 Hurricane Season and Other Potential Crises?

This brief item by Florence Kizza in The Greentree Gazette, discusses information from Lynn University, NACUBO, and SCUP about preparedness and response to disaster. A related item in the same magazine is an interview with Casey Green, of the Campus Computing Project, regarding IT crisis management activities:

Actually, IT crisis management activities have stalled. While upwards of two-thirds of campuses have IT disaster plans, the percentage reporting strategic IT disaster plans barely increased between fall 2002 and fall 2005. No doubt the Katrina experience will be a catalyst for many institutions to either update their current plans or finish the initial ones.

The Chronicle of Higher Education's "Wired Campus" blog also has a brief item with several links on a very recent statewide security and technology meeting of college and university officials in Virginia.

SCUP has a Web document, Crisis & Disaster Management Planning for Higher Education, dedicated to links to places and resources that can be of assistance. Among other items, it links to the monograph cited in the Kizza item. That monograph is Lessons From the Front: The Presidential Role in Disaster Planning and Response (PDF).