On Crisis Management Of Colleges And Universities

Colleges and universities are organic part and parcel of society. With high-crowded personnel, they usually become the places where crisis is easy to happen. If the teachers and students at colleges and universities don't have strong safety consciousness and if the colleges and universities aren't provided with serious measures on management, crisis may possibly happen. Therefore, it's necessary to regard crisis management as an important part of daily management at colleges and universities. It seems essential and urgent to emphasize on the research of crisis management at colleges and universities.Crisis at colleges and universities mainly refers to the uncertain situations or events that not only seriously threaten the interests and the normal development of the colleges and universities or the teachers and students at colleges and universities but may bring devastating results as well. Crisis management of colleges and universities is the dynamic management process when colleges and universities or teachers and students at colleges and universities are faced with crisis, the administrators take a series of measures such as establishing the crisis management organizations, working out counter plans for responding to crisis, setting up crisis warning systems, controlling crisis and reconstructing after the crisis in order to prevent, control and eliminate crisis and even make it an opportunity. The whole process can be divided into five periods according to the pivotal links of crisis management and working-cycle.First, Pre-Crisis Management. It indicates that the administrators should take precautions against the potential crisis incident, strengthen the safety consciousness of teachers and students at colleges and universities, and take effective measures in advance in order to minimize the losses caused by crisis if it happens. In detail, it includes establishing the organizations, making counter plans for responding to crisis, practicing risk management, organizing the training about knowledge and skill of crisis control, setting up the communication system and crisis warning system.Second, Pro-crisis Management. It refers to the period that the crisis incident is supposed to happen but not have broken out actually. What we should is to strengthen the crisis cognition, identifying and reducing crisis.