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Apolito Ghosh
On July 26, 2024, President Biden issued a Memorandum on the Deferred Enforced Departure for Certain Lebanese Nationals to the secretaries of state and homeland security authorizing DED and employment authorization for 18 months for eligible Lebanese nationals.
We are extending the validity of certain Employment Authorization Documents (EADs) issued to Temporary Protected Status (TPS) beneficiaries under the designations of El Salvador, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua and Sudan through March 9, 2025.
DHS has implemented processes through which nationals of Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, and their qualifying immediate family members, may request to come to the United States in a safe and orderly way.
The Census Bureau indicates whether each census block is within an AIANNH area. To create the IPUMS HOMELAND variable, we have applied the Census Bureau's block-level measure of AIANNH status to the PUMAs available in the public use data from Census 2000, Census 2010, and the ACS samples from 2005 onwards. Any PUMA that spatially intersects an AIANNH area is coded as including a homeland area.
AIANNH areas can be either legal or statistical entities. Although they do not have the legal statuses of other areas, the statistical areas included in this measure are judged by local agencies to be substantially meaningful to the local native populations. Substantive research has shown that the PUMA-based IPUMS measure has substantial predictive power (see Liebler, Carolyn A. 2010. "Homelands and Indigenous Identities in a Multiracial Era" Social Science Research 39:596-609).
Due to the ever-increasing needs of terrorism preparedness, the Homeland Security Division has grown in personnel and programs. Services include critical infrastructure analysis, homeland security incident management and response, fire services coordination, agroterrorism preparedness, exercise and training, intelligence gathering and analysis, and homeland security grant services.
The Homeland Security Division has also partnered with other state agencies through the Board of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Task Force and Georgia Information Sharing and Analysis Center to ensure a smooth and effective terrorism response capability.
We also work closely with our federal partners that include the Department of Homeland Security to coordinate funding, training, response and preparedness programs. The Homeland Security Division is dedicated to meeting the challenges of the future to provide a safe and well-coordinated response for the citizens of Georgia.
The Board of Homeland Security, created in 2018, is governed by a 17 member board appointed by the Governor that is comprised of state, local, and private sector leaders dedicated to coordinating homeland security activities in Georgia. The Board meets quarterly. The dates and locations of the Board meetings will be posted on the GEMA/HS website.
Students in the UNH homeland security program build the analytical, decision making, technical and strategic skills to create and sustain more resilient organizations and communities and a more secure nation. This broad, interdisciplinary field requires professionals who possess critical thinking, problem solving, analytical and communication skills. At UNH, HLS students are empowered to identify and address challenges of national and international significance and to pursue diverse and rewarding careers in the public and private sectors.
Fully available on both the Manchester and Durham campuses, the HLS program prepares you with a wide array of skills and best practices in leadership, decision making, strategic planning, emergency management, cybersecurity, open-source intelligence production and risk assessment, professional writing and public speaking. Our nationally recognized program offers substantive interdisciplinary flexibility and career-specific preparation because all HLS majors combine a B.S. in HLS with a dual or double major, 2 minors or an associate degree. Students earn a competitive advantage through their degree combination and real-world learning in both the classroom and the field through our internship and capstone experiences. Rigorous academic study combined with experiential learning by subject matter experts from across the nation gives students unique skill sets that are directly relevant to employers.
Graduate in four years with an education specialized around your interests. Interested in foreign affairs? Add a minor in political science or political economy. Computer science? Get an additional B.S. in analytics or computer information systems. Business-savvy? Double-major in business, or minor in entrepreneurship and communication arts.
Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Vermont do not offer a bachelor's-level homeland security program in their public universities, so students from these states can enroll at a reduced tuition rate.
Homeland security is a broad-field, applied liberal arts degree teaching students critical thinking, writing and analysis skills. As a result, HLS creates several graduate school opportunities and opens students to dozens of career paths in both the public sector (i.e., local, state or federal government), and the private sector or the military. Students will find diverse and rewarding career opportunities in cyber security/ information assurance, intelligence analysis, civil or Foreign Service, diplomatic security, law enforcement at the local, state or federal levels, emergency and disaster management, immigration, border and transportation security, policy making, corporate security, risk management, critical infrastructure protection, human security and more.
This degree plan is a sample and does not reflect the impact of transfer credit or current course offerings. Undergraduate students will develop individual academic plans with their professional advisor during the first year at UNH.
Students can combine their interests in security studies and history with travel through summer study abroad course to Belfast, Edinburgh and the Scottish Highlands, York and London. Taught by professor of security studies, and Sonic Woytonik, history lecturer, this nearly 3-week trip focuses on the how the UK has experienced domestic conflict (i.e., the Troubles in Northern Ireland during the late 20th century, including the struggle for Irish independence), and the broader responses of the UK to domestic security and emergency preparedness to hazards and threats from World War II to present times.
We then travel to Scotland where we are invited to the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh to attend the First Ministers question/answer session, eat and do skittle bowling in a 15th cent Scottish pub, see Edinburgh Castle, hike Ben Vrackie, visit a highlands distillery and much more on your own.
Within the 128 credits needed to graduate, all students are required to take 40 credits of breadth outside the homeland security program. This means, in addition to your B.S. in homeland security, you will graduate with an additional major or two minors. Here are a few minors that will complement your HLS degree:
The emergency management minor prepares you with knowledge of emergency management strategies, tools and policies essential to related careers in government, the private sector and nonprofit entities.
Enhance your degree and marketability with the forensic accounting minor, which gives you the skills and techniques to examine, detect and prevent fraudulent activity in a range of business, governmental and legal venues.
Actively engage in global issues while developing cross-cultural awareness through our global studies minor, which gives you the knowlege, skills and anlytical reasoning to analyze the impact of 21st century issues on regional, national and global communities.
The threats to national and homeland security are seemingly in the news every day, and with it comes the need for an educated workforce. Our homeland security minor builds your skills in this complex field, preparing you to work in dynamic environments, form partnerships, think critically and solve today's challenges.
In our national security intelligence minor, you'll gain a composite view of national security intelligence and related topics that may support a career path in government, private sector, nonprofits and more.
New England is a microcosm of the nation: Our challenges reflect the breadth and depth of needs for development and education across the country, and our location brings you to the doorstep of significant local homeland security talent.
In addition to in-demand graduate degree options in law, diplomacy, national security, international affairs and more, the Bureau of Labor Statistics projects positive growth in many homeland security related professions between 2012 and 2022. With expert faculty and hands-on experience in the classroom and in the field, our homeland security program prepares the next generation of heroes in intelligence analysis, cybersecurity, emergency management and more. Here are just a few of the many careers you'll be prepared for as a homeland security graduate:
We've partnered with NHTI and White Mountains Community College to develop curriculum guides that show you which NHTI and WMCC courses transfer into UNH Manchester's homeland security program. Click on a community college below to see transferable homeland security requirements:
The online NSIA program provides a deep conceptual understanding of national and international security issues, strategies and policies to prepare the next generation of intelligence professionals. LEARN MORE
What is the HLS departmental honors program?
Departmental honors offers high-achieving students with a credential as well as access to a more rigorous, applied HLS curriculum. Students pursuing department honors take 3 HLS core courses as honors (usually 3 of the following: 480, 580, 760, or 790) in which they complete additional projects under the supervision of HLS faculty. Departmental honors students also complete a senior honors thesis through HLS 799H.