HEC/News-Announcements

Announcements
Friday, October 23, 2009

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

1) Higher Education Center's 2009 October e-Fact Sheet, Preventing Dangerous College Drinking Is Possible, Now Posted

Preventing Dangerous College Drinking Is Possible: Alcohol is all too often seen as an accepted part of college life, but there are programs that can significantly reduce students' risky drinking, according to a series of studies in a special college drinking supplement of the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. Fourteen studies detail results of projects funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism's (NIAAA's) Rapid Response to College Drinking Problems initiative. Between 2004 and 2005, NIAAA selected 15 college campuses with serious student-drinking issues to work with the agency and other experts in developing programs to combat the problem.

To view online or download Preventing Dangerous College Drinking Is Possible, please visit the e-Fact Sheet page on the Center's Web site at http://www.higheredcenter.org/services/assistance/e-factsheet

2) U.S. Department of Education Announces Grant Awardees

The U.S. Department of Education has announced recent grant awardees: Grants for Coalitions to Prevent and Reduce Alcohol Abuse at Institutions of Higher Education. The Department is providing funding to institutions of higher education (IHEs), consortia thereof, State agencies, and non-profit entities to prevent and reduce the rate of under-age alcohol consumption, including binge drinking, among students at institutions of higher education.

University of North Dakota
Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education
William Paterson University
Governor's Office of Drug Control Policy
Texans Standing Tall
The Board of Regents, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
The Regents of the University of California
The Curators of the University of Missouri
Mississippi State University

View more information about the FY2009 Awardees on the Center's Web site: http://www.higheredcenter.org/grants/stopact/awardees.

3) Job Opportunities

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

University of Connecticut, Department of Wellness and Prevention Services
Community Outreach Specialist - Program Specialist I (UCP VI)

For more information on these and other recent job postings, please visit the Job Opportunities section of the Center's Web site at http://www.higheredcenter.org/jobs