HEC/News-Announcements

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

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools (OSDFS) recently announced the awardees of two grant competitions:

1) Models of Exemplary, Effective, and Promising Alcohol or Other Drug Abuse Prevention Programs on College Campuses Grant Program

This program will identify and disseminate information about exemplary and effective alcohol or other drug abuse prevention programs implemented on college campuses. The U.S. Department of Education also will recognize colleges and universities whose programs, while not yet exemplary or effective, show evidence that they are promising. The grantees will enhance and further evaluate their exemplary, effective, or promising programs.

* University of Albany, State University of New York
* University of California, Santa Barbara
* University of Florida
* University of North Carolina Wilmington
* University of West Florida

View more information about the Model Program Grantees on the Center's Web site: http://www.higheredcenter.org/grants/eep-models/awardees/fy09.

2) Grant Competition to Prevent High-Risk Drinking or Violent Behavior among College Students

The goal of this grant competition is to provide funds to develop or enhance, implement, and evaluate campus- and/or community-based prevention and early intervention strategies to prevent high-risk drinking or violent behavior among college students.

* University of Minnesota
* Clark University
* SUNY Brockport
* Michigan Technological University
* Washington State University
* Georgia Southern University Research and Service Foundation
* University of Central Missouri
* Loyola College of Maryland
* University of Oklahoma
* University of Alabama
* St. Cloud University
* Youth First, Inc.
* Eastern Carolina University
* Massachusetts Institute of Technology
* College of William and Mary
* Pacific Graduate School of Psychology
* University of Arizona
* Chowan University
* Illinois State University
* West Park Hospital District

View more information about the FY2009 Awardees on the Center's Web site: http://www.higheredcenter.org/grants/high-risk/awardees/fy09.
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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 Phyllis
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