Campus Coalitions: Building Collaborative Relationships Between Faculty & Student Affairs Administration 2009 NASPA Alcohol Abuse Prevention & Intervention January 24, 2009

PANEL PRESENTERS: UNIVERSITY OF WEST FLORIDA Krista Albach Boren, MS Assistant Director of Housing & Residential Life Mica Harrell, MA, CHES Assistant Director of Health Promotion Services Michael Jasek, MS Assistant Dean of Students Debra Vinci, DrPH, MS, RD/LDN Assistant Professor & Health Education Program Coordinator

Workshop Objectives 1. Discuss how to build a research collaborative 2. Review benefits and impacts of collaboration 3. Summarize specific collaborations at UWF 4. Outline strategies for creating your own campus collaborations

Why Collaborate 1. Don’t have to be an expert on everything 2. Build an alliance of people who are vested in the prevention work you do 3. Share resources 4. Share workload 5. Other reasons?

Campus Collaborations 1. UWF Alcohol Coalition 2. Interdisciplinary Research Team 3. Delphi - Living Learning Community 4. Alcohol Misuse/Abuse Prevention Programming

UWF Alcohol Coalition Accomplishments 1. Mini grant 2. Increased visibility 3. Revised alcohol policies 4. Judicial sanctioning guideline

UWF Alcohol Coalition Accomplishments 5. Campus and community assessment 6. Expanded campus and community resources 7. Alcohol programming research 8. Expanded collaboration

Broad Impacts 1. Residence Life 2. Judicial Affairs 3. Greek Affairs 4. New Student Transitions

UWF Behavioral Health Research Collaborative 1. Assistant Director, Health Promotion Services 2. Director, Health and Counseling 3. Assistant Professor, Anthropology 4. Assistant Professor, Health Education 5. Associate Professor, Psychology

Interdisciplinary Research Team Getting Started: 1. Identify departments on campus who have faculty studying health behavior such as anthropology, health education, nursing, psychology, and social work. 2. Determine if there are committees on campus that address health behavior such as an HIV committee, Healthy Relationships Task Force, and/or Campus Alcohol Coalition.

Interdisciplinary Research Team 3. Send an to faculty and committee members telling them about your role on campus and your interest in research and ask persons interested in working collaboratively on research to contact you. 4. Send a follow-up invitation inviting everyone to an introductory meeting on a developing behavioral health research collaborative.

1. Making connections 2. A set of regular research partners 3. Continuous motivation 4. Knowledge that research results will have an impact on the campus and community What is in it for a Faculty Member?

Making Connections 1. Connect with campus student affairs administrators and health education professionals delivering alcohol prevention. 2. Gain an understanding of campus culture related to alcohol use/misuse to identify potential involvement as researcher/ program evaluator. 3. Identify other faculty members on campus with similar research interests.

Regular Set of Research Partners 1. Provides continuous support in developing a focused research agenda. 2. Developed partnerships that increased visibility across campus; important in the tenure and promotion process. 3. Provides a research team to collaborate on grant applications, research and publications.

Continuous Motivation 1. Bi-monthly meetings provide structure for consistent progress toward identified goals. 2. Collaborating with individuals from diverse academic and research backgrounds truly enhance the quality of programs. 3. Feedback was “priceless” 4. Ability to do applied research

1. Tenure track faculty 2. Size and other qualities of the university 3. Qualities of academic departments & faculty relations to department 4. Personal interests, e.g. strong interest in research with well developed applied and theoretical focus Factors Contributing to Success of Collaboration for Faculty

Lessons Learned From a faculty perspective: 1. Do what you think is in your best interest. 2. There is a perspective that ad hoc research groups are “all talk” and “no action”. 3. For Dr. Vinci, “It is a waste of your time” – did not play out; result of collaborative efforts includes data for at least four articles and research plans for the next 2 years.

Delphi 1. UWF’s First-Year-Experience Living Learning Community First-Time-In-College Freshmen 3. 3 Buildings 4. Co-Curriculum Programming 5. Segmented Classes Academic Foundation Seminar Academic Foundation Seminar

Delphi Committee 1. Co-Chaired by the Assistant Dean of Students and the Assistant Director of Housing and Residence Life 2. Committee consist of departments who have a role with a students first year on campus 3. Information and ideas are brought to the table to create a synergy

Academic Foundation Seminar 1. Ten sections of the class were for students in Delphi 2. Common syllabus Covered topics at the same time in each class Covered topics at the same time in each class Certain days pulled multiple sections together to cover a specific topic (i.e. Alcohol Education) Certain days pulled multiple sections together to cover a specific topic (i.e. Alcohol Education)

Co-Programming 1. Fall semester is programming which enhances the Academic Foundation Seminar class schedule 2. Both active programs and passive programs are organized 3. Programming focused on academics and healthy choices

Alcohol Misuse/Abuse Prevention Program 1. Advisory board for programs 2. Partners for implementation of environmental strategies 3. Program planning is enriched and less burdened 4. Diverse point of view

Alcohol Misuse/Abuse Prevention Program 5. Development of effective programs can lead to additional funding 6. Increased networking across campus 7. Increased access to key groups 8. Needs assessment drives future research which then drives programming

Alcohol Misuse/Abuse Prevention Program 9. Involvement in the research phase supports program planning 10. Most bang for your buck... Ensures funds are best utilized 11. Established relationships can lead to additional research and inclusion in planning new initiatives

Benefits of Campus Collaborations 1. Increased resources for everyone 2. More colleagues across campus 3. Consistency of message 4. Coordinated efforts 5. Empirical research Evidence based programming Evidence based programming 6. Behavior and environmental change 7. Thriving student body

General Recommendations 1. Be clear on your goals 2. Be willing to take the lead 3. Persistence 4. Be flexible 5. Reciprocate

Taking it Home 1. Identify 3 departments and/or faculty members for collaborative research 2. Brainstorm a couple of projects for applied research 3. Identify key campus and community stakeholders for coalition 4. Outline the mutual benefits this could offer

Questions Michael Jasek, MS Assistant Dean of Students Director of Student Transition Programs University Parkway, Bldg. 21 Pensacola, FL (850) Debra M. Vinci, DrPH, RD, LD/N Assistant Professor Health Education Department of Health, Leisure & Exercise Science University Parkway, Bldg. 72 Pensacola, FL (850) Krista Boren Albach, MS Assistant Director Department of Housing and Residence Life University Parkway, Bldg. 21 Pensacola, FL (850) Mica Harrell, MA, CHES Assistant Director Health Promotion Services Counseling and Wellness Services University Parkway, Bldg. 19 Pensacola, FL (850)