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Affirmations: What they are and why they might motivate students to reduce their drinking
A student goes to the bar each week to reduce stress from juggling classes and a job. Their GPA is dropping, jeopardizing their scholarship. A good time to use affirmations is in situations where you detect that a student is feeling ambivalent about changing their behavior.
Core Skills for a Meaningful Conversation
A student’s GPA is dangerously close to getting them kicked out. They tell you that they have been overwhelmed by classes, family, and job responsibilities. One of the only highlights this semester has been going out to the bar with their roommates every week.
Conversations with Students Who Minimize Their High-Risk Alcohol Use
A student comes to your appointment, class, or team practice with a broken ankle. When you ask how it happened, they say that they “partied too hard.” The student tries to laugh it off and says, “I don’t have a drinking problem, though.”
Campus Council Peer Exchange Highlights: Making Alcohol Policies More Accessible
To make alcohol policies more accessible, use QR codes on flyers, create multiple touch points, and rely on data and practices that reach students.
Frostburg State University Tackles Excessive Drinking-Binge Drinking Rates Plummet
Administrators here at Frostburg State University (FSU) care about students and want them to be healthy. We know there are a lot of acute legal, social, personal, and academic harms related to high-risk drinking.
Fall Semester—A Time for Parents To Discuss the Risks of College Drinking
As college students arrive on campus this fall, it is typically a time of new experiences, new friendships, and making memories that will last a lifetime. Unfortunately for many, it is also a time of harmful and underage drinking.
A Guide to Best Practices
This is the 3rd edition of A Guide to Best Practices. The Guide synthesizes the existing research on interventions, effective and not effective.
Amelia Arria: A Researcher’s Lens on Drinking and Drug Use in College
Forge sound strategies and intervention policies to help students stay healthy and successful on their academic journey.
21st Birthday
Birthdays are a joyous time for everyone involved in the celebration. Because the 21st birthday marks a change in legal drinking status, more than 80% of college students report drinking alcohol while celebrating their 21st birthday.
Addressing Cannabis Use
Did you know that approximately 44% of people will have tried marijuana by the time they are 18 years old and that now more youth are using marijuana than cigarettes?
Halloween
No longer simply an amusing night of trick-or-treating for young children, Halloween has now become a major drinking holiday in the United States. Halloween is also a particularly popular social event for college students, and the festivities can last for several days.
Success Story: Social Host Ordinance in Baltimore County
In Towson, Maryland, community volunteers worked with one of the largest universities in the state to reduce excessive drinking among college students.
Holidays
Students might skip class during these highly anticipated drinking holidays and might even skip class the day after to recover. Oftentimes, they miss important assignments and lessons, which can lead to academic struggles.
Housing & Roomates
Living in a residence hall is a huge adjustment for college students. It’s most likely your child’s first exposure to being independent and living with people outside of your family.
Impaired Driving
You’ve probably heard someone say “Don’t drive if you’ve had too much to drink!”. Seems like a pretty good thing to say, right? Well, if you think about it a bit more, that common warning really doesn’t make sense.
Off Campus Housing
Many students choose to live off-campus for a variety of reasons such as more space, wanting more freedom, or financial reasons. Regardless of the reason, living off-campus means that your child is completely independent and unsupervised.
All Articles
Affirmations: What they are and why they might motivate students to reduce their drinking
A student goes to the bar each week to reduce stress from juggling classes and a job. Their GPA is dropping, jeopardizing their scholarship. A good time to use affirmations is in situations where you detect that a student is feeling ambivalent about changing their behavior.
Core Skills for a Meaningful Conversation
A student’s GPA is dangerously close to getting them kicked out. They tell you that they have been overwhelmed by classes, family, and job responsibilities. One of the only highlights this semester has been going out to the bar with their roommates every week.
Conversations with Students Who Minimize Their High-Risk Alcohol Use
A student comes to your appointment, class, or team practice with a broken ankle. When you ask how it happened, they say that they “partied too hard.” The student tries to laugh it off and says, “I don’t have a drinking problem, though.”
Campus Council Peer Exchange Highlights: Making Alcohol Policies More Accessible
To make alcohol policies more accessible, use QR codes on flyers, create multiple touch points, and rely on data and practices that reach students.
Frostburg State University Tackles Excessive Drinking-Binge Drinking Rates Plummet
Administrators here at Frostburg State University (FSU) care about students and want them to be healthy. We know there are a lot of acute legal, social, personal, and academic harms related to high-risk drinking.
Fall Semester—A Time for Parents To Discuss the Risks of College Drinking
As college students arrive on campus this fall, it is typically a time of new experiences, new friendships, and making memories that will last a lifetime. Unfortunately for many, it is also a time of harmful and underage drinking.
A Guide to Best Practices
This is the 3rd edition of A Guide to Best Practices. The Guide synthesizes the existing research on interventions, effective and not effective.
Amelia Arria: A Researcher’s Lens on Drinking and Drug Use in College
Forge sound strategies and intervention policies to help students stay healthy and successful on their academic journey.
21st Birthday
Birthdays are a joyous time for everyone involved in the celebration. Because the 21st birthday marks a change in legal drinking status, more than 80% of college students report drinking alcohol while celebrating their 21st birthday.
Addressing Cannabis Use
Did you know that approximately 44% of people will have tried marijuana by the time they are 18 years old and that now more youth are using marijuana than cigarettes?
Halloween
No longer simply an amusing night of trick-or-treating for young children, Halloween has now become a major drinking holiday in the United States. Halloween is also a particularly popular social event for college students, and the festivities can last for several days.
Success Story: Social Host Ordinance in Baltimore County
In Towson, Maryland, community volunteers worked with one of the largest universities in the state to reduce excessive drinking among college students.
Holidays
Students might skip class during these highly anticipated drinking holidays and might even skip class the day after to recover. Oftentimes, they miss important assignments and lessons, which can lead to academic struggles.
Housing & Roomates
Living in a residence hall is a huge adjustment for college students. It’s most likely your child’s first exposure to being independent and living with people outside of your family.
Impaired Driving
You’ve probably heard someone say “Don’t drive if you’ve had too much to drink!”. Seems like a pretty good thing to say, right? Well, if you think about it a bit more, that common warning really doesn’t make sense.
Off Campus Housing
Many students choose to live off-campus for a variety of reasons such as more space, wanting more freedom, or financial reasons. Regardless of the reason, living off-campus means that your child is completely independent and unsupervised.