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August 15, 2004
| Full August 15, 2004 issue of National On-Campus Report in PDF format … |
| Social Norming Works Among Athletes, Studies Show A multi-school study of college student-athletes indicates success using social norms programming to reduce alcohol and tobacco use and increase academic engagement. |
| Campus Counseling Act Passage Appears Likely Passage seems likely for a modified Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act, which includes a competitive grant program for improving campus mental health services. |
| Good Ideas Networking Road Trip for Men of Color; Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships |
| The Future of International Education International education — a field that includes study abroad and international students studying in the United States — has been growing in importance. The higher education community is accepting the premise that forming citizens with a global perspective is crucial both to U.S. national interests and the student’s own. |
| Resources Student Drug Abuse Prevention; How to Write a Grant Proposal; Leadership Educators’ Institute |
| Software Developer Pilots Admissions Alternative After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2003 that higher education institutions could consider race in admissions only through “individualized consideration” of each application, rather than assigning a pre-set “plus” factor to applicants from underrepresented groups, Michigan spent approximately $1.8 million on a new admissions system. The university added five full-time admissions counselors and 16 seasonal application readers to make sure at least two staff members took a holistic look at the school’s 20,000 applications. Ohio State spent an additional $250,000 to do similar reviews of applications. And the numbers of enrolled underrepresented minority students dropped in both cases. |
| Follow-ups SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS AND FERPA; CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENTS; CLERY TALLY UPDATE; BIODIESEL USE ON CAMPUS |
| Creating Off-Campus Conduct Codes that Pass Legal Muster While the courts have generally upheld the right of the public campuses to suspend or expel students for off-campus offenses, there are legal limits campus policymakers must consider. |
