For More Information:
Matt Vogel
Community Health Specialist
608-785-8977 (Ph)
vogel.matt@uwlax.edu
FACULTY AND STAFF
How faculty can support campus alcohol
and abuse prevention efforts:
(Research indicates that faculty involvement makes a difference!)
- Direct address alcohol and drugs in content-appropriate ways-links to discipline specific ideas curriculum Infusion
- Refrain from joking about heavy drinking. Comments on Monday mornings such as "sobered up yet?" implicitly support the idea that heavy drinking is normative and OK.
- Refrain from "war stories" about your own college drinking. Many students view these types of stories as glorifying drinking and implying that all college students drink. If it is appropriate to class content, you may wish to note if alcohol negatively affected you.
- Serve as a role model. Having students over to your house? Going out after class? Serve non-alcohol drinks and meet in places other than bars.
- Have to miss a class? Schedule peer educators presentations Reach and Share
- Reclaim Thursdays and Fridays as academic days – Schedule morning classes and quizzes
- Extra credit – Give extra credit for attendance at alcohol & other drug (AOD) related workshops, presentations, etc.
- Set class standards – In syllabus, indicate that coming to class “under the influence” is unacceptable
- Know the magnitude of the problem - Familiarize yourself with the national and UW-L data
- Other ideas? Speak out and write on the topic, do research in the area, serve on committees regarding alcohol policy, etc., promote alcohol free events. Let your colleagues know about your role in alcohol abuse prevention - include these types of activities in your summary sheets regarding teaching, service and research.
- Refer Students to additional resources:
- Refer students for assistance – Counseling & Testing
- Refer students to MyStudentBody.com - a web-based, interactive website that educates college students about alcohol use - includes a confidential risk assessment, called RATE MYSELF, to help students gain insight into their own drinking habits.
- Other resources at UW-L http://www.uwlax.edu/counseling/htm/alcoholresources.htm
- Interactive sites that allow students to see blood alcohol levels and how to modify them http://www.baecdrom.org/.
Embed alcohol/drug examples into your content classes - aka "Curricular Infusion"
Discipline Specific Examples
Downloadable Data Sets
Downloadable Data Sets (to be used in Excel, SPSS, etc) - Substance UseNational Institute on Alcohol Use and Alcoholism (NIAAA multiple data bases) NIAAA portal to additional data bases including PubMed and ETOH SAMHDA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive) National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) Census 2000 (includes data such as number of liquor stores by state) CDC's School Health Policies and Programs Study Social Science Data Archives (generic archives of multiple data sets) |
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Materials collated from the following sources:
http://www.virginia.edu/case/curriculum.html
http://academic.hws.edu/alcohol/dvpphe/infusex.htm
http://www.neiu.edu/~cinfusi/process.htm#modules
http://www.usfca.edu/substance_abuse/market.html#examples
http://www.iup.edu/healthawareness/infusion/examples.shtm
PDF files - examples across disciplines: http://oncampus.richmond.edu/student/affairs/infusion/disciplin.html
For additional information and consultation, contact Mary Tortsveit torstvei.mary@uwlax.edu and visit http://www.uwlax.edu/counseling/htm/consultation.htm
* Faculty involved included: Betsy Morgan (Psychology); Stephen Brokaw (Marketing); Blanche Collins (Health Education), Betty Deboer (Psychology); Tammy Fisher (Music); Aaron Monte (Chemistry); & Heather Quackenboss (Therapeutic Recreation).