Solutions for Colleges & Universities
higher education
Looking to enhance the emergency management capabilities of your campus, motivate your leadership, or create training programs that actually work? We’re here to help you engage your higher education stakeholders take work off your plate.
Our Solutions
Higher Education
Epicenter Innovation has been a leader in emergency management programming at all phases of the disaster management lifecycle since 2013. We’ve worked with higher education institutions of all sizes – our clients range from small private institutions with fewer than 700 students to large state school systems with tens of thousands across multiple campuses. We are the foremost global experts on human-centered, resilience-focused innovation and have a unique focus on campus safety.
- Training sessions for your emergency management teams
- Program reviews & assessments to benchmark your progress
- Leverage your existing on and off-campus resources
University & College Clients Worldwide
Solutions for Any Size Institution
Testimonials
What our Resilience Innovators are saying...
Incident Commander & Associate Professor of Cybersecurity | Utica College
“Epicenter Innovation worked for over a year with the Utica College Campus Emergency Management Team to help us mitigate, prepare for, respond to, and recover from a wide range of hazards. In the early days, our team’s capabilities were rudimentary, our training was uneven, and few of our processes were documented in the formal sense. Epicenter Innovation was indispensable in strengthening our working knowledge of concepts like the National Incident Management System (NIMS) and Incident Command System (ICS), assessing risks to raise awareness of the hazards our institution faces, and increasing our confidence when responding to crises of any size or scope.”
Communications Manager | Indiana Department of Homeland Security
“The work of emergency management, and especially disaster communication, has been rapidly evolving. The way that Epicenter Innovation connects traditional marketing, risk communication, and disaster principles is a significant step forward in creating stronger relationships and building trust with the public. Even more valuable is the opportunities they provide to connect, discuss, and learn with other practitioners who truly care about building a stronger, more resilient nation.”
LabX Program Officer | National Academy of Sciences
“Working with Epicenter Innovation has been an amazing experience. They were able to take our initial vision and turn it into a project we never could have imagined on our own. Their team is both friendly and professional and I highly recommend anyone operating in the resilience space to consider working with them.”
Our Process
The proven process we use to systematically build resilient culture & develop innovative approaches with our clients is called the “Four E’s”. First we ENGAGE your leadership team and partners in your efforts, next we work together to EXPLORE opportunities for growth, ELEVATE your organization and its output with systems and capability-building exercises, and finally EMPOWER every Resilience Innovator in your organization to support the resilience-building process.
Training & Exercise Programming
Emergency Management Program Development
Campus Safety & Resilience Assessments
Work With Our Team of Resilience Innovators
Our people work on cutting edge problems that impact countless communities & save millions of lives. By working with our team you’ll understand why our clients say that Resilience Innovators “think differently” by approaching tough challenges with a unique skillset.
FAQ
We've conducted a variety of off-the-shelf and custom assessments for higher education - Threat/Hazard Identification & Risk Assessments (THIRA), Safety Technology Assessments, and more.
Absolutely! Whether you need completely new documentation or want a comprehensive review of what you already have, we can help edit your Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan (CEMP), Crisis & Emergency Communications Plans, Cybersecurity Response Plans, and more.
Whether you want help with a single tabletop exercise or would like a team of experts to completely manage your training program, we'll help you out with world-class incident command training, professional development, and discussion-based or operations exercises.
Sometimes. While we specialize in higher education emergency management and campus safety, we have also worked with school districts and other groups to support their resilience-building efforts as well!