The results of a survey conducted by the University's Center for Alcohol and Substance Education (CASE) and Center for Survey Research were recently released and reveal that a majority of faculty members and teaching assistants would be willing to help students address issues with alcohol and other drugs but are interested in learning more about resources that are available to students.
The survey was distributed to 600 randomly selected faculty members and 150 randomly selected teaching assistants in November of 2004.
The release of survey results was postponed until the completion of CASE's Web site this past January.
"We wanted faculty and staff to have resources available," Assistant Director of CASE Paige Hawkins said. "It seems like good timing because now there is a place, a central Web site, for faculty members to go to."
The survey was conducted after a recommendation was made to the organization by the University's Alcohol Advisory Committee, Hawkins said.
"I think the focus of it was so that we could gain information so we could learn how to engage faculty and teaching assistants in prevention and intervention efforts," Hawkins said. "I think we also wanted to know what resources they were familiar with and what [resources] they could identify."
According to the press release, 83 percent of faculty members were interested in finding out more information on these available resources.
"I think one of the specific findings that is exciting is that most faculty agree that if they knew how to identify and refer a student to help, they would be willing to," Hawkins said. "They agree it's important to know information [on resources] and see it as part of their role as faculty members."
This large faculty interest has prompted the Alcohol Advisory Committee to discuss possible ways to extend resource information to staff members.
"We don't want to reinvent the wheel, just let faculty members and teaching assistants know about the resources that are out there," said Jennifer Bauerle, member of the Alcohol Advisory Committee and health educator in the Office of Health Promotion.
The posting of the survey's results on CASE's Web site and integration of resource information into the faculty orientation program are some steps the Committee has already discussed.
According to Mike Foroobar, third-year Commerce student and member of the Alcohol Advisory Committee, the Committee is currently trying to "get out the information and make the greatest impact"
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