Drug Use on Campus
What do we know?  What should we do?

To register: send your name, title, campus and email to:  alcolem@rci.rutgers.edu by 1/24/03 (to assure enough food at lunch). Call Adrienne Coleman at 732-932-7710 x 269 with questions.

 Friday, January 31^st, 9:00am  3:00pm; RSC MPR, CAC

 Audience: Student life staff (e.g., student deans and residence life staff, student services, housing, counselors, health service, public safety), academic advisors, faculty, student leaders and others

9:00am  Registration

9:15am - Welcome, introductions 

9:30am  The concern  Campus panel with representatives from RU campuses
                        What are we seeing on campus, in residence halls?

10:00am  The distribution and enforcements facts - Panel of campus, county, state police and detectives 

           Special Agent Douglass S. Collier, U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency
           Lt. Ron Dixon, Middlesex County Prosecutors Office
           Det. Tom Chartoff, RU Detective Bureau

What are we seeing off-campus, where are the drugs coming from and changing hands here on campus, what do we need to know?

11:00am  Student drug use  Case presentations from RU Health Services
                        What can we learn from student drug use? 

11:30am - B  R  E  A  K 

11:45am  Building effective programs by understanding the context  Dr. Richard P. Keeling
                        What do we need to know to develop an effective, systematic 
                        approach to drug prevention and environmental management? What are the
                        best practices from the literature and like communities?

1:00pm  lunch 

1:30pm  - Identify action plan  Small groups (of like communities of practice) at each round table review  shared needs, concerns, ideas for campus and university next steps 

2:15pm  Small groups report back to larger group; response from participants  

2:45pm  Evaluation, volunteers for next steps 

Sponsors to date:  Rutgers University Health Services Department of Health Education, Cook College Student Life, the RU Center for Communication and Health Issues (CHI) 

To register:  send your name, title, campus and email to:  alcolem@rci.rutgers.edu by 1/24/03 (to assure enough food at lunch).  Call Adrienne Coleman at 732-932-7710 x 269 with questions.

Last Modified 12/22/2005