UMC Receives Grant to Prevent High-Risk Student Drinking
The University of Minnesota, Crookston (UMC) has been awarded a grant from the U.S. Department of Education in the amount of $118,226 for the 2003-04 academic year. The grant, "Changing the Culture of Drinking on a Small University Campus," is designed to prevent high-risk student drinking, alcohol problems, and related violence.
The grant will enable UMC to implement a comprehensive campus-wide alcohol prevention program using a blend of social norms and environmental management approaches. Efforts will focus on targeting residence hall students, student athletes, and freshmen using CORE Alcohol and Drug Survey results and social norms to create a social marketing campaign.
Primary activities will include the creation of a campus and community coalition prevention team and a UMC student advisory committee to promote peer education in efforts to reduce the frequency of binge drinking and other negative consequences of alcohol use and abuse. A twelve-month, full-time alcohol prevention program coordinator and a ten-month, half-time senior administrative specialist will be hired under the terms of the grant.
The grant is funded under the Competition to Prevent High-Risk Drinking and Violent Behavior Among College Students Program (CFDA# 184H). It is anticipated that the grant will be funded for an additional second year.
The grant application was written by Don Cavalier, director of UMC’s Counseling and Career Center, with assistance from Liz Tollefson of the UMC Development Office and senior administrative specialist Meloni Rasmussen.
Posted 07/28/2003
Contact: Andrew Svec,
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