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Alcohol education required for first-year students
Click here to check out AlcoholEdu for Parents Only. 4 p.m., Oct. 13, 2006--All first-year students at UD are now required to take an online alcohol education program, AlcoholEdu for College. Students who do not complete the course by Friday, Nov. 17, will not be able to register for spring semester 2007 classes. The course is aimed at creating a learning experience that motivates behavior change, resets unrealistic expectations about the effects of alcohol, links choices about drinking to academic and personal success, and helps students practice healthier and safer decision-making. At the end of the first part, students must pass an exam with a score of 80 percent or higher before they can receive an e-mail approximately 30 later to log back into the course and complete the second part, which takes about 15-30 minutes. "Requiring all first-year students to complete AlcoholEdu is just one more tool we have in our efforts to reduce the problems related to high-risk drinking," Tracy Downs, program coordinator at Wellspring, UD's Student Wellness Program, said. More than 250,000 students nationwide have taken AlcoholEdu for College, producing the world's largest database on college students and alcohol based on their responses to course surveys. Data from students who completed the program in summer and fall 2004 showed that AlcoholEdu for College:
An independent evaluation of AlcoholEdu for College by Andrew Wall at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign showed that students who completed AlcoholEdu experienced a 50 percent reduction in negative academic and personal consequences, such as missing class, blacking out, having unprotected sex and vomiting in public. “Our primary reason for making this population-level effort to focus on alcohol education is simply the concern we have about the health and safety of our students,” John Bishop, UD associate vice president for counseling and student development, said.
For more information about efforts to reduce high-risk drinking among students, visit [www.udel.edu/alcohol] or send e-mail to Tracy Downs at [alcoholedu@udel.edu]. Article by Martin Mbugua
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