Committee

Professional Development

Mission

Find and create professional development opportunities for EDEN delegates and encourage professional development in disaster education.

Committee’s Charge

• Produce 6-8 webinars yearly,
• Name one reviewer to the Annual Meeting review panel. The review panel will score presentation and poster proposals for the EDEN annual meeting, and
• Provide the Post-Session Workshop at Annual Meeting

Membership

Open to all delegates. The committee meets on the first Wednesday of every month at 11AM Eastern.

The Professional Development Committee Recommend Trainings for All Delegates

• FEMA ICS-100 (IS-100.C: Introduction to the Incident Command System)
• FEMA ICS-200 (IS-200.C: Basic Incident Command System for Initial Response)
• FEMA ICS-700 (IS-700.B: An Introduction to the National Incident Management System)
• FEMA ICS-800 (IS-800.D: National Response Framework, An Introduction)

Committee Leadership Roles and responsibilities

Chair

• Plan and conduct monthly committee calls
• Send out communications to committee members and delegates as needed
• Coordinate committee produced webinars in partnership with the EDEN Support Team
• Representative of Professional Development Committee on the EDEN Executive committee
  • Attend EDEN Executive committee monthly call (third Thursday, 3 pm Est.)
  • Attend EDEN Executive Committee Mid-Winter Board Meeting (February or March in-person)
  • Attend EDEN Executive Committee Meeting at Annual Meeting
• Submit monthly and yearly Reports
• Appoint subcommittees and committee working groups as needed
• Attend the Annual Meeting
• Coordinate other projects as needed
• The chair can serve up to 3 consecutive terms

Vice Chair

• The vice-chair shall assume the duties of the chair in the chair’s absence
• Send out communications to committee members and delegate as needed
• Representative of Professional Development committee on the EDEN Annual Meeting committee
  • Attend Annual Meeting committee monthly calls (Fourth Friday, 12:00 pm Est.)
  • Name one reviewer to the Annual Meeting review panel
  • Determine and coordinate the Annual Meeting post-session workshop in partnership with Purdue staff
• Coordinate other projects as needed
• Attend the Annual Meeting
• Elected to a one-year term
• May be elected as chair-elect if the chair is beginning a third consecutive term or planning to step down at the end of their next term
  • If elected as chair-elect, the committee will only hold a vice-chair election in June. The chair-elect will automatically assume the chair at the next Annual Meeting.

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Chair

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Committee Members

Last Name	First Name	Institution
Kirkland	Brittani	Penn State University
Hubbard	Bill	Maryland Sea Grant
Hoffman	William	USDA National Institute of Food & Agriculture
Hyde	Glenda	Oregon State University
Yandow	Cathy	University of Vermont Extension
Rizza	John	Oregon State University Extension
Kocher	Susan	University of California Cooperative Extension
Whitford	Fred	Purdue University
Gmeinder	Gwen	University of Minnesota
Jensen	Michael	Washington State University
Ira	Gregory	UC California Naturalist Program
Friend	Duane	University of Illinois
Estwick	Noel	Prairie View A&M University
Tannehill	Linda
Davis	Kimberly	Florida A&M University
Black	Lynette	Oregon State University
Bearnes	Kim	University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Hilbun-Benoit	Anne-Howard	Mississippi State University
Griffith	Rick	New Mexico State University
Finley	Gill	Kentucky State University
Davis	Tim	University of Georgia
Skjolaas	Cheryl	University of Wisconsin-Madison
Nelson	Sherry	University of Missouri
Yoder	Mike	North Carolina State University
Burnham	Conne	University of Missouri
Higdon	Andrea	University of Kentucky
McKillip	Carrie	University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Mueller	Ashley	University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lillpop	Abby	Purdue University
El Afandi	Gamal	Tuskegee University
Lovelace	Susan	South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium