How ready are colleges for an environmental approach that utilizes campus/community coalitions?
While there is optimism about an environmental management approach that utilizes campus-community coalitions to reduce levels of high-risk drinking, the readiness of schools to implement such an approach is unknown. We surveyed 100 colleges regarding their readiness based on eight factors: existence of a task force to address alcohol use on campus; the inclusion of the college/university President; inclusion of a community representative; frequent meetings; external funding to address alcohol use; previous environmental training; changes implemented as a result of environmental training; and a plan to institute environmental training in the future. Having an alcohol task force or coalition (57%) was associated with participation by the president and/or community representative on the task force, having extramural funding to address high-risk drinking, training in environmental management, implementation of changes after the training, plans for future training, school size, Greek organizations on campus, and being a state university.
Department of Emergency Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, North Carolina 27157, USA. mobrien@wfubmc.edu
Mary Claire
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O'Brien
Heather
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Champion
Ralph B
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D'Agostino
Barbara Alvarez
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D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000517:prevention & control*; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000517:prevention & control*; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D004777:Environment; D006801:Humans; D014495:Universities / Q000458:organization & administration*