DHS has announced that it established a "homeland security academy" to increase graduate educational opportunities for government officials.
"The academy" is actually a master’s program taught by the Naval Postgraduate School’s Center for Homeland Defense and Security, which also awards the degrees, though classes take place at OPM’s Eastern Management Development Center in Shepherdstown, W.Va.
Currently three groups of students each year are educated at the NPS campus in Monterey, California, and about 150 government officials have completed the master’s program through NPS.
Classes for the Shepherdstown program began June 6 and include more federal and DHS officials than the Monterey courses, though both prepare leaders to develop policies, strategies, programs and organizational arrangements to prevent and respond to terrorist attacks and other disasters and to strengthen interagency and intergovernmental relationships, DHS said.
