August 1, 2007

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Four Approaches to Prevention and the Law
By Peter F. Lake
A decade or so ago, few were familiar with the many contributions to the field of alcohol and other drug prevention by the U.S. Department of Education’s Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and Violence Prevention. In recent years, however, there has been an increase in awareness of developments in the prevention field. This knowledge of prevention is increasingly influencing the law, lawyers, and policymakers. As a result, the law itself has been evolving rapidly in a parallel fashion to prevention.

On-Campus Report Capsules
Student mental health services: We’d like to bring to your attention the New England Journal of Medicine’s “Falling through the Cracks – Virginia Tech and the Restructuring of College Mental Health Services,” which was published on July 12. Author Miriam Schuchman, MD, describes an effective suicide-prevention program that Kerry Knox (a University of Rochester researcher) designed for the U.S. Air Force.

Make Your Campus Safer Starting Today
By Neal Raisman, PhD
If students feel that a campus is not as safe as it could be, colleges will feel the effect in enrollment and retention. There are some effective and efficient measures that can be taken to increase student comfort. Let’s start with the “broken window theory.”

Five Reasons It’s a Bad Idea to Arm Faculty and Staff
By Ralph Hatley
Having retired as a police officer, academy trainer and public safety director at a top-tier liberal arts college in the Southeast, I admit that learning of Nevada’s latest push to arm faculty and staff on a college or university campus gave me pause to reflect, especially after April’s Virginia Tech tragedy.

A Prospective and Retrospective View on Graduate Education: What’s Needed for the Next 100 Years?
By Kathleen Manning
In 1913, the first graduate preparation program began at Teachers College, Columbia University. In 1954, Esther Lloyd-Jones, a professor in that program, wrote Student Personnel Work as Deeper Teaching, one of the first texts in the field. A more solid literature base did not become firmly established until well into the 1980s. Foundations of Student Affairs Practice (Hamrick, Evans, & Schuh) in 2002 signaled that the literature was advanced enough to warrant an encyclopedic review.