K-State crisis response workshop wins exceptional conference program award

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Monday, February 26, 2007

K-STATE CRISIS RESPONSE WORKSHOP WINS EXCEPTIONAL CONFERENCE PROGRAM AWARD

MANHATTAN -- The Association for Continuing Higher Education has awarded its 2007 Region VIII Exceptional Conference Program Award to the Crisis Response Project Workshop offered through Kansas State University's department of communications and the K-State Division of Continuing Education.

The award was presented at the association's Region VIII annual conference Feb. 22-23 in Manhattan.

The award-winning workshop provided a networking venue for individuals involved in developing crisis communication plans emphasizing biosecurity. The target audience included land-grant university communicators and administrators.

Participants produced materials to use in their home institutions to further their work in risk and crisis communication. They also built networks that will be useful in times of crisis.

Twenty-two of the 23 participating universities completed a crisis communication plan. Educational institutions and outside entities cooperating with K-State to plan the workshop included North Dakota State University, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the University of Missouri-Columbia, the University of Alabama, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the National Center for Food Protection and Defense and the Extension Disaster Education Network.

Workshop sponsors were the U.S. Department of Agriculture-Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service, Extension Disaster Education Network, K-State Research and Extension and the National Center for Food Protection and Defense.