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College Drinking: Prevention Perspectives “Embracing Culture and Context to Prevent Underage Drinking” Discussion Guide
This guide shows how HBCUs, as well as other institutions that primarily serve students from a distinct background, region, or culture, can create prevention strategies to meet the unique needs of those students.
College Drinking: Prevention Perspectives – “Lessons Learned at Frostburg State University” Discussion Guide:
This guide highlights steps taken by the Frostburg State University community to reduce underage and high-risk drinking among the student population and discusses how these strategies were implemented.
Alcohol Policy and COVID Webinar
Alcohol marketing in the digital age has increased availability may have lasting implications on alcohol policy and public health.
Campus Council Peer Exchange Highlights: Student Engagement
To engage students, campuses can consult the Guide to Best Practices, use social media, use universal screening, and involve students.
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.
All Articles
College Drinking: Prevention Perspectives “Embracing Culture and Context to Prevent Underage Drinking” Discussion Guide
This guide shows how HBCUs, as well as other institutions that primarily serve students from a distinct background, region, or culture, can create prevention strategies to meet the unique needs of those students.
College Drinking: Prevention Perspectives – “Lessons Learned at Frostburg State University” Discussion Guide:
This guide highlights steps taken by the Frostburg State University community to reduce underage and high-risk drinking among the student population and discusses how these strategies were implemented.
Alcohol Policy and COVID Webinar
Alcohol marketing in the digital age has increased availability may have lasting implications on alcohol policy and public health.
Campus Council Peer Exchange Highlights: Student Engagement
To engage students, campuses can consult the Guide to Best Practices, use social media, use universal screening, and involve students.
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.