They also need to consider a range of environmental strategies that will change the campus and community environment in which students are making decisions about drinking and other drug use. Student alcohol abuse is not a problem of the campus alone, but of the entire community. The Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention formed the Presidents Leadership Group last year in order to address the role that college and university presidents should play in addressing dangerous drinking on their campuses.
Presidential leadership is key.
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