HEC/News-Announcements

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

1) New Web Page Posted to the Higher Education Center's Web site

The Higher Education Center has posted a new Federal Mandates Web page, linked from the home page, that replaces the link to the Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act that was formerly in that space. The Federal Mandates page links to the existing Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act (DFSCA) and The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act) Web pages.

To learn more, please visit the Higher Education Center's Web site: http://www.higheredcenter.org/.

2) Higher Education Center's Revised Publication, Methods for Assessing College Student Use of Alcohol and Other Drugs, Now Available

The Higher Education Center has just revised its publication, Methods for Assessing College Student Use of Alcohol and Other Drugs, by W. DeJong.

If they are to develop effective programs and policies to reduce alcohol- and other drug-related (AOD) problems on campus, college and university officials must understand the nature and extent of these problems at their institution. Administrators can achieve this understanding only if they have credible data on patterns of student substance use and related risk behavior. This guide offers a straightforward method for gathering and reporting student survey data on substance use-related problems. Among the areas covered are obtaining Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval and administering mail and online surveys. The guide will be of particular interest to program directors for AOD prevention programs on campus, or to members of a campus-based task force or campus and community coalition that is charged with assessing the need for new prevention programs and policies. Although this guide focuses on AOD, much of this guidance also is applicable to assessment of problems related to campus violence.

To view online or download Methods for Assessing College Student Use of Alcohol and Other Drugs, please visit the Methods for Assessing Student Use of Alcohol and Other Drugs section of the Center's Web site: http://www.higheredcenter.org/services/publications/methods-assessing-st.... You may order this publication in hard copy (from mid-February 2009 onward) or on CD through the Web site or by calling 1-800-676-1730; TDD Relay-Friendly, Dial 711.

3) Registration Deadline Extended for the 2009 NASPA Conferences

The registration deadline for the 2009 NASPA Strategies Conference, "Alcohol Abuse Prevention & Intervention," and the 2009 NASPA Mental Health Conference, "Effective Interventions for Student Mental Health on Campus," has been extended to January 9, 2009. The registration fees are $310 for NASPA, AUCCCD, ACCA members, $520 for non-members, $100 for NASPA student members, and $65 for the Pre-Conference Workshop. The registration fee allows participants to attend sessions for either conference.

For more information, and to register, please visit the 2009 NASPA Strategies Conference Web site: http://www.naspa.org/programs/aapc and the 2009 NASPA Mental Health Conference Web site: http://www.naspa.org/programs/mh.

4) Job Opportunities

The following positions were recently posted to the Job Opportunities section of the Center's Web site:

Healthy Eating & Body Image (HEBI) Health
University of Michigan

Associate Director of Alcohol and Other Drug Program
University of Pennsylvania

For more information on these and other recent job postings, please visit the Job Opportunities section of the Center's Web site: http://www.higheredcenter.org/jobs/.
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The Higher Education Center news service (HEC/News) is provided by the U.S. Department of Education's Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and Violence Prevention as a way to disseminate news and information related to alcohol and other drug abuse and violence prevention on campus and in surrounding communities. Through its Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools, the Department funds the Center under contract number ED-04-CO-0137. The contracting officer's representative is Tara Hill. The content of HEC/News does not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the U.S. Department of Education, nor does the mention of trade names, commercial products, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. government.

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