Overcoming Disaster

What Colleges Learned from Catastrophe to Recovery

Katherine B. Persson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

220 Seiten

2022
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-4758-6441-0 (ISBN)

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This provides a resource to help leaders at many levels in an organization understand what can help and hinder their disaster recovery, whether natural or man-made caused.

Overcoming Disaster: What Colleges Learned from Catastrophe to Recovery provides a resource to help leaders at many levels in an organization understand what can help and hinder their disaster recovery, whether natural or man-made caused. The author and contributors share their lessons learned on recovering from hurricanes and a mass shooting on campus where nine were killed. The seven parts of the book include the aftermath to recovery with chapters on trauma and grief, being overwhelmed, healing, and recovery strategies for individuals, organizations and communities. The finale of the book is a master crisis response cheat sheet.

Katherine Persson was a founding faculty member and a long-time college president of Lone Star College-Kingwood when Hurricane Harvey’s sewage-laden floodwaters washed over eighty percent of everything on the main campus just before the start of 2017 fall classes. With 113 classrooms lost, LSC-Kingwood built a new instructional business plan and started classes 27 days after flooding with no employee layoffs, and an increase in student enrollment of over five percent for that eventful first semester.

Dedication
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1: What Happened
Chapter 1: Lone Star College-Kingwood
Chapter 2: Gulf Coast State College
Chapter 3: Umpqua Community College
Part II: Hindsight: What We Wish We Knew
Chapter 4: The Settings
Chapter 5: Don’t Be Naïve
Chapter 6: Guns, Drugs and Money
Chapter 7: Power
Chapter 8: Move Things to a Higher Place
Chapter 9: Identity Theft
Chapter 10: Loss of Personal Items and Loss of Lives
Chapter 11: What You Should Know and Do to Help Recovery Efforts
Part III: What Helped Us
Chapter 12: Leadership Team
Chapter 13: Culture
Chapter 14: Policies
Chapter 15: Resources
Chapter 16: Friends, Partners, and Others Wanting to Help
Part IV: What Hindered Us
Chapter 17: Inexperience
Chapter 18: FEMA and Other Bureaucracies
Chapter 19: Procurement Policies
Chapter 20: Personnel Changes
Part V: Aftermath to Recovery
Chapter 21: Trauma and Grief
Chapter 22: Overwhelming State of Mind
Chapter 23: Healing and Recovering
Chapter 24: Recovery Strategies Used by Individuals
Chapter 25: Recovery Strategies Used Organizations
Chapter 26: Community Healing
Part VI: Preparation for the Next Crisis – A Global Pandemic
Part VII: Master Crisis Response Cheat Sheet
Closing Statement
Appendix A:Harvey Timeline Summary: August 23, 2017 - February 2020
Appendix B.LSC-Kingwood Student Success Pre and Post Harvey
Appendix C:Harvey Revenues and Expenses
Appendix D:LSC Procurement Process
Appendix E:Testimonials from Student, Staff, and Faculty
References
About the Author
About the Contributors

Erscheinungsdatum	16.08.2021
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 228 mm
Gewicht	549 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Didaktik
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
ISBN-10	1-4758-6441-8 / 1475864418
ISBN-13	978-1-4758-6441-0 / 9781475864410
Zustand	Neuware