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ResourcesMCNY BlogsMCNY's Emergency and Disaster Management Blog MCNY Presentation - The Titanic RememberedMarch 30th, 2009 On Wednesday, April 15, 2009, the Emergency Management and Homeland Security MPA program at Metropolitan College of New York (MCNY) will host its annual “Titanic Day” presentation. Titled, “The Titanic Remembered”, this year’s presentation will feature Professor David Longshore in a remembrance of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, on April 15, 1912 - an event that not only resulted in the loss of 1,533 men, women, and children, but also a change in global mindsets regarding the culture of disaster. In many ways, disaster at sea prior to the Titanic’s loss was simply a case of “bad luck”, of being on the wrong ship at the wrong time. But after the Titanic disaster, the emphasis of safety at sea shifted to a more preventative paradigm, one that we still employ with great efficacy to this day. “The Titanic Remembered” will begin at 6:30 pm on April 15, 2009, at MCNY’s Manhattan Campus, located at 431 Canal Street, 11th Floor Conference Center. Unlike the Titanic, we have seats available for everyone, so please join us for this respectful, and interesting, remembrance. Questions can be directed to Disaster Central, or to MCNY’s Admissions Office. Email this · Subscribe to this Feed · Bookmark This! · Post a Comment » Posted by David Longshore in Events, MCNY EDM Program. David Longshore is the former Director of MCNY’s Emergency and Disaster Management MPA Program. 2 Responses to “MCNY Presentation - The Titanic Remembered”Leave a Reply
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April 16th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
I am very interested in disaster and emergency management. I do not have a bachelor’s degree, but I have been a Registered Nurse since 1974. I have wanted to become involved in disaster relief, and my plan has been to pursue that interest when I retired, which is now going to happen in a few months. I have worked in the field of physical medicine and rehabilitation since 1985.To me, Rehab is the guts of nursing;you have to deal with every disability, every medical emergency, and you must be coherent in every situation. I am very pragmatic and my colleagues believe me to be an excellent problem solver. So, my questions are, what course should I pursue to gain the fastest acceptance into a program such as yours, and are any of your classes the kind that I could enroll in without prior study? I feel that I am very well positioned to make a difference in this field, and I will be grateful to receive your assessment.
I just want to leave one more comment before I log off. I think emergency management is a subject that should be taught now starting in middle school or before. Call it personal security to national security, with an emphasis on recognizing signs of eminent breaches of safety. I think it should become a required course for college freshmen. It can’t be something that only people in security or law enforcement learn, because more and more our lives are depending on us being pro-active in prevention. Thanks again, Mary Williams
April 30th, 2009 at 5:18 pm
Hi Mary,
The most important qualification for any would-be emergency manager is a desire to save lives through saving systems. You’re 100% correct when you stress the importance of education in emergency management and homeland security - not simply in terms of learning, but in terms of transforming the social paradigm which holds that only a government agency or organization can effectively serve the emergency management community. EM’s exist at all levels of government and society to prepare for, respond to, and assist in recovering from, emergency situations. But at the heart of this equation lies the human being, the families and businesses that can be negatively impacted by emergency situations. Our MPA program in Emergency Management and Homeland Security seeks to provide a venue by which all people can gain experience and qualifications in EM through education - then, in turn, take that gained knowledge back to their organizations, their companies, their communities, and their families in an effort to close any gaps in our collective knowledge. Through doing so, EM can become better ritualized, become a more accepted participant in the educational matrix, and hopefully (when disaster does strike) a system by which everyone can be educated on how to be better prepared.
Please email me at dlongshore@metropolitan.edu I’d like to set up a telephone call or a meeting to discuss with you in greater detail how you can take your valuable professional and life experience, and transform that into a new mission area for your life.
Thanks again, Mary. Keep prepared. Keep safe.
Professor Longshore