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Did you know that 93% of CU Boulder students find it acceptable to not drink at a party? Many times, students come to college with expectations around drinking, partying and what it means to be a college student. We may assume that everyone drinks or parties, that it’s normal to party every weekend or that people will judge us if we choose not to party or use substances.
Are you interested in learning more about prescription drug misuse on your college campus? The Ohio State University College of Pharmacy is recruiting up to 50 institutions for the 2024 College Prescription Drug Study, a multi-institutional survey of college students examining the nonmedical use of prescription drugs.
Ohio counselors are concerned that the legalization of sports betting in the state at the start of 2023 puts college students at a higher risk for problem gambling. A conference presentation from Ohio for Responsible Gambling in 2019 reported young adults ages 18 to 24 are most at risk of developing problem gambling.
According to the Centers for Disease Control, over 140,000 people die each year from excessive alcohol use. In 2020, 11,654 people died in alcohol-related car crashes, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Reducing stigma—and treating people with dignity when they ask for support—can have a powerful impact on alleviating food insecurity for college students, says a new report from the Hope Center on College, Community, and Justice. The study shares five valuable lessons from a pilot intervention at Compton College to connect eligible community college students to Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits.
State lawmakers are giving public colleges and universities $1.4 billion this year to build or renovate affordable dorms for students. The 25 projects across California range in size and price but are expected to make space for 7,300 students.
Higher education may never be the same after the COVID-19 pandemic, and that’s true even for the most elite colleges. A group of researchers at Stanford University spent the past year documenting how teaching and student services changed at Stanford during emergency remote learning, and their report argues that there’s been a shift in the institution’s identity as a result.
Research has repeatedly found that higher education programs in prisons reduce recidivism. And the higher a degree an incarcerated person earns, the less likely they are to re-offend, down to a 0% recidivism rate for those who have earned a master’s, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
Alcoholic beverage servers and managers at over 56,000 businesses must be trained and certified by August 31, 2022, per the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control.