Education Disaster Information System - v0.4Beta

No tropical cyclone activity exists at this time. As we are now past the traditional storm season, the GEO Emergency Operations Center has been deactivated.

Michael Viron
President & CEO
General Education Online
Lead, GEO Emergency Operations Center

General Education Online continues to monitor Tropical Storm Gustav to see where it may make landfall. As of the time of this writing, the most recent track is available at http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at2+shtml/024313.shtml?5day?large#contents.

The following school closings have been announced, many of these can also be found via http://emergency.louisiana.gov/Releases/SchoolClosures.html.:

• Delgado Community College and all Louisiana Technical Colleges in Region 1, will remain closed through September 2, 2008. The most recent statement issued can be found at http://www.dcc.edu/storm.html.


• Dillard University - All campus closed. Normal operations will resume at 1 pm, September 3, 2008, classes resume September 4, 2008. Ongoing updates can be found at http://www.dillard.edu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=130:emergency-planning&catid=41:administration&Itemid=161


• Herzing College New Orleans - New Orleans campus closed, and will remain closed until September 3, 2008. Continue visiting http://www.herzing.edu/campus.php?id=16 for updates.


• Louisiana College - Louisiana College will remain closed on September 2nd, decision will be made tonight as to whether to remain closed September 3rd. Continue visiting http://www.lacollege.edu/ for information.


• Louisiana State University Eunice - LSUE will remain closed on September 2nd. Continue visiting http://www.lsue.edu/ for updates.


• Lousiana State Unviersity - many LSU campuses remain closed through September 3rd. Visit http://www.lsu.edu for a full list. LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans to remain closed through September 3rd.


• University of New Orleans - Campus closed, scheduled to reopen on September 4, 2008. Visit http://www.uno.edu/ for updates.


• Loyola University New Orleans - Campus closed, but normal schedule for online classes. On-campus classes will resume September 4. Continue monitoring http://www.loyno.edu/emergencyannouncement.php for updates.


• McNeese State University - Campus closed at least through September 3rd. Continue monitoring http://www.mcneese.edu/ for additional information.


• New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary - Campus closed until September 4. Classes will continue to be taught online.


• Northwestern State University (Louisiana) - Campus closed until September 4. Continue monitoring http://www.nsula.edu/hurricane.asp for additional information


• Our Lady of Holy Cross College - Campus closed, will reopen September 3. Visit http://www.olhcc.edu/x671.xml for official communications.


• Our Lady of the Lake College - Baton Rouge and New Orleans Campus closed. Please visit http://ololcollege.edu/ for further information.


• Southeastern Louisiana University - All campus closed at least through Wednesday, September 3. Continue visiting http://www.selu.edu/ for further updates.
  
• Southern University - Baton Rouge - Campus closed on Tuesday, September 2nd.


• Tulane University - Campus closed. Visit http://emergency.tulane.edu/ for further information.


• University of Louisiana System - See http://www.uls.state.la.us/index.cfm?md=newsroom&tmp=detail&articleID=238 for campus closings.
  
• Xavier University of Louisiana - Campus closed, expected to reopen September 4. Continue visiting http://www.xula.edu/ for updates.
  

If you know of any school closings not listed here, or on the Louisiana specific websites shown, please contact us via email to disaster@findaschool.net.

Sincerely,

Michael Viron
President & CEO
General Education Online
Lead, GEO Emergency Operations Center

General Education Online continues to monitor Tropical Storm Gustav to see where it may make landfall. As of the time of this writing, the most recent track is available at http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at2+shtml/024313.shtml?5day?large#contents. Should any school closings occur, they will be posted via this website. Should you have any information concerning school closings, please email us at disaster@findaschool.net.

Sincerely,

Michael Viron
President & CEO
General Education Online
Lead, GEO Emergency Operations Center

General Education Online has the following updates to provide on school closings following the severe weather which occurred in Pensacola this morning

1. Pensacola Junior College - All Campuses - Classes have been cancelled for the remainder of the day and tonight.
   
2. University of West Florida - All classes have been cancelled.
   
3. Virginia College (Pensacola) - All classes cancelled today and tonight.
   
4. Troy University West Campus and NAS Campus - All classes cancelled for tonight
   
   

If you know of any other important campus closing information, please email us at disaster@findaschool.net.

Sincerely,

Michael Viron
President & CEO
General Education Online
Lead, GEO Emergency Operations Center

General Education Online and its volunteers ask that visitors to this site join us in a moment of silence for the tragedy that happened today during the Blue Angel show near Beaufort, SC. The full text of our statement can be found in our newsarchives at http://www.findaschool.org/press/index.php?Date=2007-04-21 (PDF)

Disaster related monitoring will continue on April 23rd, 2007, although all other operations will be suspended..

Sincerely,

Michael Viron
President & CEO
General Education Online
Lead, GEO Emergency Operations Center

General Education Online and its volunteers ask that visitors to this site join us in a moment of silence for the tragedy that happened this morning at Virginia Tech. The full text of our statement can be found in our newsarchives at http://www.findaschool.org/press/index.php?Date=2007-04-16 (PDF)

Disaster related monitoring will continue on April 17th, 2007, although all other operations will be suspended..

Sincerely,

Michael Viron
President & CEO
General Education Online
Lead, GEO Emergency Operations Center

At this time, all previously closed campuses in New Orleans have resumed normal operations. If you know of a campus that has not re-opened, please email us at disaster@findaschool.net.

Sincerely,

Michael Viron
President & CEO
General Education Online
Lead, GEO Emergency Operations Center

General Education Online has the following updates to provide on school closings following the severe weather which occurred in New Orleans this morning.

1) Loyola University - New Orleans - All classes cancelled for today, will resume normal operations tommorrow (Feb 14th).

2) Tulane University - Classes at Uptown campus cancelled (except for the Law School), all other campuses on normal schedule. Uptown campus expects to resume classes tommorrow (Feb 14th).

3) Xavier University - All classes cancelled for today, expected to resume normal operations tommorrow (Feb 14th).

At this time, these are the current school related closings we have been able to locate. We will continue to closely monitor announcements, and posting them to this website as events warrant. As an additional source of information, you may also visit http://www.wdsu.com/weather/10997810/detail.html.

If you know of a campus closing not on this list, please email us at disaster@findaschool.net.

Sincerely,

Michael Viron
President & CEO
General Education Online
Lead, GEO Emergency Operations Center

General Education Online and its volunteers ask that visitors to this site join us in a moment of silence for the tragedy that happened this afternoon in New York City. The full text of our statement can be found in our newsarchives at http://www.findaschool.org/press/index.php?Date=2006-10-11 (PDF)

Normal Operations will continue, and education disaster related information will be posted on this website as it becomes available.

Sincerely,

Michael Viron
President & CEO
General Education Online
Lead, GEO Emergency Operations Center

General Education Online and its volunteers ask that visitors to this site join us in a moment of silence in memory of Robert Levin (lilo) who passed away on September 16th, 2006. The full text of our statement can be found in our newsarchives at http://www.findaschool.org/press/index.php?Date=2006-09-16 (PDF)

Disaster related monitoring will continue on September 18th, although all other operations will be suspended..

Sincerely,

Michael Viron
President & CEO
General Education Online
Lead, GEO Emergency Operations Center

General Education Online and its volunteers ask that visitors to this site join us in a moment of silence for the horrific tragedy that happened on the morning of September 11th, 2001. The full text of our statement can be found in our newsarchives at http://www.findaschool.org/press/index.php?Date=2006-09-11 (PDF)

Disaster related monitoring will continue on September 11th, 2006.

Sincerely,

Michael Viron
President & CEO
General Education Online
Lead, GEO Emergency Operations Center

To better describe the nature of this blog and the updates provided on this website, the name has been changed to "Education Disaster Information System" or EDIS. EDIS plans to provide a full-featured disaster information system for the education sector before, during, and after a disaster situation. Initially, during Phase 1, the people providing updates will be members of the General Education Online Emergency Operations Center, and posting will be closed except to those members. In future phases, additional capabilities will be made available, including the ability for schools to provide regular updates directly, and to tie the system more closely to the findaschool.org portal.

We're still in the very early design phases for EDIS, but we are committed to continue working on and improving the system. As part of our commitment to EDIS, we will be providing a project website in the near future.

Sincerely,

Michael Viron
President & CEO
General Education Online
Lead, GEO Emergency Operations Center