Northern Kentucky U and its refurbished MPA

NKU has "re-aligned" its MPA program to include homeland security and non-profit management concentrations.

Northern Kentucky University is announcing the addition of a new master degree program and several certificate programs, as well as significant changes to some of its long-standing master degrees.

The NKU College of Arts and Sciences has realigned its Master of Public Administration program, adding three areas of concentration. Joining the existing concentration on Nonprofit Management will be concentrations on Homeland Security and Metropolitan Government. Both a master’s degree and certificates will be available for each of these concentrations. “We are the only school in our area to offer Homeland Security and Nonprofit Management,” stated MPA director Dr. Shamima Ahmed.

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Northern Kentucky University
Highland Heights, KY

MS in Legal Studies - Homeland Security track at California U of PA

California University of PA's acute understanding of this extraordinary need in contemporary society has led to the creation of the Homeland Security track in Legal Studies. It presents a neat and clean track that prepares supervisory personnel to tackle the many challenges inherent in the protection of a nation. It allows justice professionals, health specialists and legal specialists, to concentrate on the methodology of security in this narrow context. Aside from the recurring demands of professional justice duty, Homeland Security delivers another slant and perspective to harried and often over-tasked public servants.

http://www.cup.edu/graduate/homeland/index.jsp

Towson University has graduate HS and forensic chemistry programs

Towson University is only one of four schools in the nation to offer a professional masters science degree in forensic science.

The university is planning on getting federal funding to go towards their forensic chemistry institute to help train scientists in bomb analysis, which is a critical part of homeland security.
They also have an online integrated HS management program with an embedded certiifcate program in Security Assessment and Management.

More info on Towson's program is here:
http://grad.towson.edu/program/master/ihsm-ms/

NPS Center for Homeland Defense and Security turns 5!

NPS graduate HS program celebrates its 5-yr anniversary! This gold standard of graduate-level HS education is expanding to the East Coast (Shepherdstown WV, so I read) this year as part of its 5-yr anniversary.

Born out of the chaos and tragedy of Sept. 11, 2001, the Naval Postgraduate School's Center for Homeland Defense and Security has lived up to expectations, say those who started it.

The center is celebrating its fifth anniversary this week at the Navy school with a reunion of founders and alumni that started with a reception at the school Tuesday. The program has about 90 graduates a year.

It began its first class of 14 master's degree candidates in 2003, and some of them, like retired New York Fire Capt. Vincent Doherty, were there when the World Trade Center was hit by suicide pilots flying jetliners, collapsing the mammoth twin towers and killing more than 3,000 people.

Full story:

http://www.montereyherald.com/news/ci_8116508

George Mason University - graduate Biodefense programs

George Mason’s biodefense program is designed to educate the nextgeneration of biodefense and biosecurity professionals. By combining afoundation in the biological sciences with a focus on policy analysis, itis the first program of its kind in the United States to offer a broadfield of study in the defense against biological threats and other weaponsof mass destruction. The risks posed by biological threats have increasedsubstantially in recent years due to globalization, advances in scienceand technology, and the changing nature of conflict and security. As theUnited States embarks on a range of ambitious efforts to enhance itsbiosecurity, there is a greater need than ever to instill a strongintersection of knowledge of policy, science and technology across thenational security community. The nature of the problem defines the natureof the solution: interdisciplinary, interagency, intergovernmental, andinternational. The Biodefense program at George Mason University is unique in this approach. If your career choice requires you to furtheryour knowledge of biological warfare and bioterrorism, counterterrorism,WMD non-proliferation, homeland security, emergency planning andpreparedness, or global health, we encourage you to apply. The department offers an MS and a PhD in biodefense.

Please visit http://pia.gmu.edu/grad/biod/ for more information.