Prepared by The Alcohol Health Promotion Partnership Team Highlights of the Report URI students overestimate the amount and frequency of their peers drinking. Many in the community believe that binge drinking is the expected and accepted norm for URI students.
Faculty can provide accurate information to correct students misperceptions of drinking norms.
This has been shown to be effective in reducing problem drinking on campus. Faculty can influence the climate on campus by increasing expectations of a full work-week for students by stressing attendance and scheduling exams and assignments for Fridays. Because a poorer response rate was anticipated for men, we over sampled by gender at a male to female ratio of 1.4 to 1, which resulted in roughly comparable sample sizes across gender. While there is some evidence that the CCC sample is comparable to the general population of students that formed the sample frame, the data should be interpreted as suggestive of, but not precise representations of, population estimates. One of our ongoing research projects will seek to identify the factors that influence students motivation to change their high risk drinking patterns.