Resources
Campus Crisis Management is a practical resource that helps campus administrators evaluate, revise, or establish a comprehensive crisis management plan appropriate for their college or university.
Prepared Campus Consulting's Gene Zdziarski is senior editor.
Crisis Management illuminates how responding from the heart has the incredible power to energize the response process and contribute to a positive outcome. Prepared Campus Consulting's Brent Paterson and Gene Zdziarski are co-editors and contributing authors.
Reflections from Crisis: A Phenomenological Study of the Texas A&M Bonfire Collapse.
Nearly 20 years later, researchers explored how campus leaders experienced the tragedy and reflected on their role over time. Prepared Campus Consulting's Brent Paterson is co-researcher and co-author.
Enough is Enough presents first-hand accounts and experienced counsel from professionals who have lived through a violent incident, and continue to deal with its aftermath. Prepared Campus Consulting's Brent Paterson is author of the chapter entitled "Too Close to Home: Realities of Campus Shootings."
In Search of Safer Communities presents a framework of planning for and responding to emergencies such as incidents of violence using a crisis management model. Prepared Campus Consulting's Gene Zdziarski is co-editor.
The survey of 388 emergency management personnel on university and college campuses examines emergency management programs, disaster recovery plans, resource needs and COVID-19 pandemic responses.
Crisis, Compassion, and Resiliency in Student Affairs focuses on the personal lived experiences of student affairs professionals who frequently encounter crisis situations and disasters on college and university campuses. Prepared Campus Consulting's Kevin Jackson is author of the chapter entitled "Making Sense Out of the Senseless: A Framework for Understanding the Impact of Traumatic Events on the Lives of Student Affairs Professionals."
This story reflects on Prepared Campus Consulting's Eric Hodges contributions to emergency management at Illinois State University. Hodges created an incident management team, a group of university leaders from across campus who are prepared to respond to everything from weather events and water main breaks to bomb threats, active shooters, and cyber security threats.
Prepared Campus Consulting's Brent Paterson shares his 10 key aspects of crisis management in higher education refined during his career in higher education administration and crisis management.
Prepared Campus Consulting's Eric Hodges shares his thoughts on the changing landscape of emergency management and suggests that the term, institutional resiliency, better describes the field.