What institutions can do for themselves

1. Join Sloan-C academiccontinuity.org compact to insure academic continuity (ACOOP) via reciprocal agreements among academic institutions and others 2. Create an all-hazards emergency plan, and/or expand plan to include academic continuity (ACOOP). Include a virtual command center, triggers, and policies for staff and students. 3. Create alternative website for emergency protocol awareness and communications, including ACOOP 4. Publicize emergency plan, including ACOOP 5. Continuously build network capacity (bandwidth, servers, mirror sites, partners) 6. Continuously build scalable online courses (put all courses online for continuity of home operation and for supporting others) 7. Train faculty for readiness for continuing academic mission (converting to online delivery at term start, middle, end) 8. Train support staff for continuing academic mission (academic advising, trauma counseling, registrar, financial aid, materials) 9. Train students (and alert parents) for ACOOP (how to learn online, how to access communications channels, how to use LMS). Use fear management and crisis communications teams and backup personnel. 10. Test, drill, build awareness of COOP including ACOOP and triggers 11. Partner with local, state, regional, national emergency, regulatory agencies and authorities and media 12. Partner via (temporary? condiitonal?)MOU with academic institutions for sharing curricula, faculty, platforms, student support services, data backup