Each office that interacts with students should establish, as a top priority, improved programming and improved communication of resources. Supervisors should encourage better communication within departments and across the campus. Training and brainstorming sessions should be held at the onset of each academic year to discuss improved programming efforts and marketing strategies. Establish effective communication between offices and personnel on campus that articulate and enforce the university expectations. Directors of areas that service students could collaborate more effectively and communicate with one another on how best to manage activities.
Training is necessary in both prevention and response efforts.
University staff, professional and student, should be appropriately trained to identify students at risk with regard to alcohol, and should have resources for programming and facilitating an environment that motivates students to more positive social choices. While the areas that may come to mind as most closely affiliated with these tasks fall under the umbrella of the student life division, the Admissions Office should also be considered. The offices that often have the first official interaction with students are the Admissions and Athletic Offices. These departments need to discuss how to address the issues of alcohol when they initiate the recruitment process. This issue of prospective students and recruits being taken to bars by current students, while addressed in the past, is a significant concern.