Accreditation
CAEMHSE's business is the accreditation of college and university emergency management and homeland security programs.
What Accreditation Is:
Accreditation is a non-governmental, non-profit, self-regulatory, peer-review process based on rigorous standards. Accreditation of educational programs demonstrates the academic institution’s agreement to provide a legitimate and valuable product to the student. The accreditation process allows an external, impartial review of the educational program by experienced professionals in the field.
The CAEMHSE accreditation process uses standards developed by the Emergency Management Higher and Homeland Security Educational communities, as developed over many years, and described in articles and documents in the Documentation tab.
These standards are voluntary for degree program accreditation, and are applicable to degree programs that are face-to-face (sometimes referred to as brick and mortar institutions), blended/hybrid, and wholly online.
The Council is able to assess and accredit associate’s, bachelor’s, and master’s degree programs for emergency management and for homeland security programs, as well as blended degree programs.
The program assessment can be conducted virtually, or with one assessor visiting campus, or with a 3-person team visiting. (Programs pay to reimburse assessor travel.)
See the CAEMHSE guides to accreditation (Emergency Management Guide to Accreditation, and Homeland Security Guide to Accreditation), and the CAEMHSE Self-Study (EM & HS) Guide for Accreditation in the Documentation tab.