After brief introductions, participants in the EDUCAUSE Summit, “The Role of Information Technology in Campus Security and Emergency Management,” began working in small groups, imagining the “hallmarks” of an effectively managed disaster and a 100 percent safe campus.
They came back together, as a larger group, to share their lists. Among the top characteristics of an effectively managed disaster:
- As a guiding principle: Prevention, Detection, Recovery
- Effective, useful, and appropriate communications
- Minimizing Losses
- Smooth transitions from emergency environment to normal status and vice versa
- Speed of execution
- Key actors understood and performed their roles as expected (Able to adapt as situation evolves)
- All the technology worked
- No turf wars, jurisdiction understood
- Unified leadership
- “Playbook” (manual of emergency procedures and processes) up to date and available
- Practice made perfect
And a campus that’s 100 percent safe:
