DOUG LANDAU, D.A., M.P.A.
Professor of Public Safety Management
Edison State College
Dr. Doug Landau is a Professor of Public Safety Management at Florida’s newest 4-year college. Previously, he led an international relief agency which shared in the Carnegie Peace Prize for saving more than 400,000 lives; as a result, he received a Presidential Citation. Dr. Landau has been the U.S. representative to the United Nations’ Conference on Kampuchea. He has also been selected as a Carnegie Fellow and a Sloan Fellow as well as a Fulbright Scholar. He has experience as a criminal investigator, firefighter and EMT, and heavy rescue responder which allowed him to work through his M.P.A. and D.A. Dr. Landau is a former city manager with direct authority over all emergency services and Federal Emergency Management Agency planning experience. His professional portfolio may be accessed at http://douglandauportfolio.tripod.com/
Edison State College—with campuses in Fort Myers, Naples, and Port Charlotte, and centers in Hendry and Glades Counties in southwest Florida—has grown from a community college to a full bachelor degree-awarding institution in the last year. Dr. Landau is the College’s first Bachelor of Applied Science professor, and he oversaw the award of the first Bachelor of Public Safety Management degrees in May 2008.
Students at Edison State College must complete a Capstone Project and then post their work online in a professional portfolio. Projects that graduates have undertaken include the design of a state-of-the-art emergency station for an international airport; radiation safety training and response protocol for both the staff and the first responder for Radiotherapy Medical Institutions that has been adopted by the parent company at their 174 cancer clinics nationwide; EMS turnover; personnel career development in the fire service; leadership in crisis; gang growth and terrorists in prison; and police department strategic operation plan. Edison State’s website can be accessed at http://edison.edu/academics/psm/.
The program is modeled after the “Top Ten Competencies for Professional Emergency Management” by B. Wayne Blanchard (October 7, 2005). The program requires A.S. or A.A. degrees in fire science, law enforcement, EMS, or criminal justice/forensics before admission. The program is heavily weighted toward mid-career professionals who aspire to leadership positions. The program enjoys an endowment by the International Association of Fire Fighters and tuition support by all levels of the county and local government and the first responder community.
March 5, 2009