HEC/Announcements

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

1) NATIONAL MEETING TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE SESSIONS AVAILABLE

Staff from the Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse
and Violence Prevention will be providing brief, individual information
and assistance sessions at the 21st Annual National Meeting on Alcohol
and Other Drug Abuse and Violence Prevention in Higher Education. Topics
of assistance relate to every stage of alcohol, other drugs, and
violence (AODV) prevention program planning, ranging from problem
identification and strategic planning to evaluation to fine-tuning your
existing AODV programming on campus and in the community.

For more information on the National Meeting and schedule of technical
assistance sessions, including scheduled times and appointment request
instructions, please visit the NM07 Web site at
http://www.higheredcenter.org/natl/2007/.

2) ACTIV8

The Lighthouse Violence Prevention & Intervention Center at the
University of Central Missouri is hosting the ACTIV8 Conference, October
12-13, 2007, on the university's campus in Warrensburg, MO. The
registration fee is $50 for students and $70 for professionals.

This is an up beat, motivational conference designed to encourage
student leadership in violence prevention work on college campuses, with
an emphasis on men and women working together to end gender violence.

For more information, please visit http://www.ucmo.edu/x99361.xml or
contact Megan Jones, ACTIV8 Coordinator, at mejones_at_ucmo.edu.

3) AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION WEB CAST AND EXPERT PANEL

The American Medical Association presents "Medical Schools, Physicians
and Medical Students Address College High-Risk Drinking: A National Web
Cast and Expert Panel," October 23, 2007, 12:00-1:00 P.M. (Central).
There is no registration fee for this Web cast.

For more information and to register online, please visit
http://tinyurl.com/2wqq65.

4) NASPA STRATEGIES CONFERENCE 2008 CALL FOR PROGRAMS

The National Association of Student Personnel Administrators is pleased
to announce a call for programs for the NASPA Strategies Conference
2008, " Alcohol Abuse Prevention Conference," January 17-19, 2008, at
the Tampa Marriott Waterside Hotel & Marina in Tampa, FL.

The conference will bring together senior-level campus administrators,
prevention and education staff and researchers from the alcohol and
other drug arena to focus on advancing knowledge and information sharing
about alcohol and other drug use on colleges and universities. Posters
and programs should represent practices from diverse institutions
including large public, small colleges, community colleges and HBCU, HSI
and ISI institutions. Please note the program proposal deadline is
November 2, 2007.

For more information, including proposal focus areas and online
submission, please visit http://www.naspa.org/events/detail.cfm?id=257.

5) 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/.

Health Educator/Wellness (Student Affairs Officer II)
University of California

Coordinator of Wellness Education
Lynchburg College

Health Educator
Emory University

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