HEC/News-Announcements

The Higher Education Center is pleased to make the following announcements:

1) The Network's Brochure, Home for the Helidays, Available for Download

The Network Addressing Collegiate Alcohol and Other Drug Issues is issuing a seasonal reminder of the availability of the brochure, Home for the Helidays, regarding college students returning home to an addicted family for the holidays. The brochure is free to download and only involves your duplication costs to distribute.

For more information about The Network please visit the Web site: http://www.thenetwork.ws/. To download the brochure as a PDF, please visit the Home for the Helidays section of The Network's Web site: http://www.thenetwork.ws/documents/HomeHelidays.pdf. (This brochure is based on a slightly longer essay with a few additional ideas and suggestions, which can be viewed here: http://www.robertchapman.net/essays/helliday.htm.)

2) 30th Annual National Conference on Law and Higher Education

The Center for Excellence in Higher Education Law and Policy at Stetson University College of Law and NASPA-Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education are co-sponsoring The National Conference on Law and Higher Education February 21-24, 2009, in Orlando, Florida. The early bird registration fee is $645 and ends January 16, 2009. After this date, the registration fee is $725. Student and group rates are also available.

The National Conference on Law and Higher Education is the premier law and policy conference in the United States. Designed to facilitate interdisciplinary discussion among attorneys and a wide variety of higher education professionals, the Conference provides unique insights into cutting-edge law and policy issues. This year's features include a plenary presentation by Jean Twenge, author of Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled - and More Miserable Than Ever Before.

Pre-Conferences: February 21, 2009
"Danger on Campus" 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
"What You Need to Know to Get Up to Speed with Higher Education Law's Essentials" 2:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Main Conference: February 21 - 24, 2009
A sampling of the confirmed programs for the Main Conference includes the following:

-Beyond the Amethyst Movement: College High-Risk Drinking and the Law
-The Intersection of Disability and Discipline
-Beyond Discipline-Managing the Modern Higher Education Environment
-Emerging Best Practices in Campus Risk Management
-That's My Room! Balancing Privacy, the 4th Amendment, and Safety Responsibilities in Residence Halls
-Alternative Dispute Resolution in Higher Education Communities
-Recruitment, Eligibility and Health of Intercollegiate Athletes
-Law and Policy Issues Associated with Service-Learning Programs

Other programs will cover updates and information about litigation and insurance trends, GLBTQ issues, FERPA updates, the Higher Education Act, academic integrity, and a special session for academic Deans.

Post-conference: February 24, 2009
"Good Practices for College Suicide Prevention" 1:30 - 4:30 p.m.

For more information, and to register, please visit the National Conference on Law and Higher Education section of the Stetson University College of Law Web site: http://www.law.stetson.edu/tmpl/academics/edlaw/internal-1-sub.aspx?id=2....

3) PhenX Project Call for Input

RTI International introduces a three-year project called PhenX, funded by the National Institutes of Health. The purpose of the project is to identify a core set of standard measures for recommended use in genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and other large-scale genomic research efforts. PhenX needs the input of the scientific community in order to ensure that the selected measures truly reflect their needs. PhenX's final product, called the PhenX Toolkit, will include standard measures for domains such as demographics, cardiovascular, cancer, and psychosocial, and will be publicly available on the Internet. To learn more about PhenX, please visit the PhenX Web site: http://www.phenx.org.

The Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Substances Working Group (ATOS WG) and the RTI PhenX team are seeking input from the field on measuring quantity and frequency of consumption of alcohol, tobacco, and other substances, age of initiation and offset of use, and other measures. The ATOS Survey went live on November 3, 2008, and input will be collect until December 1, 2008. The proposed measures are available for review in a Web-based survey, posted on the Survey section of the PhenX Web site: http://www.phenx.org/surveys. Please note the surveys are anonymous.

Please contact news@phenx.org or Amanda Flynn (aflynn@rti.org) for more information.

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