Carol Cwiak, assistant professor of emergency management, has agreed to serve on the Urban Assembly School for Emergency Management’s advisory board. The board advises the school’s educational and administrative team on the delivery of a comprehensive, four-year educational experience that prepares students for a broad range of entry-level careers in the field of emergency management. The board’s members are industry and postsecondary professionals who possess knowledge, experience and key relationships in the field of emergency management.

The Urban Assembly School for Emergency Management is located in New York and strives to educate students as emergency managers to hone the communication, collaboration, problem solving and complex reasoning skills. By applying what they learn in the classroom to disaster preparation and response scenarios, students will develop the confidence to succeed in college or employment. The school opened in September with an enrollment of 125 ninth-graders.

Cwiak started working with the Urban Assembly, a nonprofit organization that focuses efforts on addressing poverty via education, in early 2012 when the school was still in the proposal stages. Since then, she has helped advise curriculum development, professional outreach opportunities and postsecondary opportunities. Cwiak hopes to visit the school site later in the school year.

NDSU is recognized as one of the nation's top 108 public and private universities by the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education.