Humboldt State University
Since becoming president of Humboldt State University in 2002, President Rollin Richmond has made it a priority to prevent campus AOD use, and his devotion to both AOD assessment and reform of campus regulations has greatly benefited the Humboldt State campus and its surrounding community.
HSU is committed to collecting information based on the complete National College Health Assessment (NCHA) survey and the Core survey at least every two years. Over 1000 students participated in the NCHA survey in the spring of 2002, and student athletes were surveyed as part of a CHOICES grant from the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), which focuses on prevention in the varsity athletic population, and in turn strengthens the enforcement of alcohol policies on campus. Such efforts in campus AOD prevention have led HSU to prohibit alcohol at campus athletic events.
President Richmond also helped to create the Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Prevention Team (ADAPT), which is active in providing policy recommendations, student assessment data analysis, social norms campaigns , and on-going AOD education for the campus, and is comprised of faculty, staff, student representatives, law enforcement, and community leaders. At the center of President Richmond’s efforts to prevent AOD use on campus is a belief that AOD education has to cut across all levels of the campus community, not simply just messages relayed to students by authority figures.