HEC/Announcements

The Higher Education Center is pleased to make the following
announcements:

1) NATIONAL MEETING 2007 OVERFLOW HOTEL IS EMBASSY SUITES

We are aware that our initial Doubletree room block has sold out. We
Have identified convenient and affordable overflow accommodations at the
Embassy Suite less than a mile away from the conference hotel, the
Doubletree. Please call 800-362-2779 (800-EMBASSY) to receive the
federal per diem lodging rate of $93 (plus 16.48 percent occupancy tax)
until Monday, September 18, 2007, or until room block runs out. Embassy
Suites offers a complimentary shuttle within a three-mile radius
(Doubletree is less than a mile away) and complimentary airport shuttle
to/from Eppley Airport upon availability.
 
Embassy Suites Omaha - Downtown/Old Market
555 South 10th Street
Omaha, Nebraska 68102
Website: http://www.embassysuitesomaha.com/home.aspx

To learn more about the National Meeting, including the pre-conference
institutes, please visit http://www.higheredcenter.org/natl/2007/.

2) WHAT CAMPUSES AND COMMUNITIES ARE DOING - NEW CASE STUDY

University of Colorado, Boulder: Fall Focus on Community - Addressing
"Quality of Life" Offenses

The U.S. Department of Education's Higher Education Center for Alcohol
and Other Drug Abuse and Violence Prevention is proud to announce the
addition to its WCCAD page of the case study on the University of
Colorado, Boulder's program, Fall Focus on Community - Addressing
"Quality of Life" Offenses in Boulder, CO. The Center prepared the case
study on behalf of the Department's Office of Safe and Drug-Free
Schools.

UCB began to work with the Boulder Municipal Court in an effort to
improve their understanding of the young adults (18-25 years of age) who
were coming before the court and the patterns, if any, to the behaviors
of these people. A group, called the City-Campus Task Force, was formed
with membership from the court, city, and campus. It was charged with
trying to define the types of cases that might be most important to look
at in terms of their effect on the two communities.

Students from the Geography Department with advanced geographic
information system (GIS) skills had plotted the location of all the
alcohol outlets in Boulder. Then students plotted the new quality of
life data. By plotting each month separately and then putting them all
together, it became possible to recreate what some neighborhoods were
experiencing each academic year.

To view this new case study, please visit the Higher Education Center's
Web site, http://www.higheredcenter.org/casestudies/gvsu.html.

3) JOB OPPORTUNITIES

The following job opportunities were recently posted to the Higher
Education Center Web site. For more information on these and other
recent job postings, please visit http://www.higheredcenter.org/jobs/.

Psychological Counselor/Substance Abuse Counselor
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Program Coordinator Sr.
West Virginia University

Counselor/Coordinator of the Alcohol and Other Drug Education Program
The University of Louisiana at Monroe

Health Educator
University of Mississippi

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