Part Man, Part Monkey

[tracker7]

The drive to work was rewarding - used the truck to help push a disabled Volvo out of traffic (hard to move one of those up a grade with only a couple of humans for motive power).  Then, just as I turned into the parking lot here, a headache started.  This is yet another sign.

1.  There is a BSci Homeland Security program at EKU.  This place will probably approve that for tuition reimbursement.
2.  cc_wolff:  If you're reading this, remember that certain question you've always wanted to ask me?  Let's talk about that.

Comments

[tragical-mirth.livejournal.com]

UMUC (kind of a smaller division of UMD - don't understand how it works) offers a graduate program in it, which would be more likely to fund you than an undergrad program:

http://www.umuc.edu/events/press/news248.shtml

Dunno much more than that though.

[tracker7.livejournal.com]

Not especially interested in moving to Maryland right now, though.

[tragical-mirth.livejournal.com]

Heh, I don't think anyone ever really is. It's just a thought, in case you decide you're really really reeeeeeeeeally interested in the subject in the future (and UMD has lots of programs in criminal justice, etc. that have close ties with the govt. so you'd get a good job).

[tegyrius]

The federal government's emergency management agencies are a total fucking writeoff. Burn the headquarters with every manager duct-taped to his desk and start over - preferably by moving to a JSDF model of military reserve engineering and logistics units whose primary mission is disaster relief. If you want to preserve civilization while working within the current organizations, I think you have to work on the state or local level.

[tragical-mirth.livejournal.com]

well, I wasn't gonna say that, but....

Even Midway College has a homeland security and/or terrorism program at this point. I question the validity of most of them (as far as earning one gainful employment in return for the hellacious tuition demanded). Midway has a lot of stupid flash-in-the-pan programs geared at getting cash from older students desperate to change careers (i.e. "Organizational Administration"), and I chalked it up to being another one of those. I tend to take equal programs with the same grain of salt. UMD's is pretty solid, though, considering the location. Honestly, if one was looking for a federal job right now, they're mostly looking for people with heavy sciences (i.e. chemistry) or certain foreign languages (i.e. Chinese or Arabic).

State, though? If you have a B.A., you probably already meet their qualifications.