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National Forum for Senior Administrators
 Art credit: Edward Savage, American, 1761 - 1817. The Washington Family, 1789-1796. oil on canvas, 2.136 x 2.842 m (84 3/4 x 111 7/8 in.) Andrew W. Mellon Collection 1940.1.2. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. |
The U.S. Department of Education and the Network of Colleges and Universities Committed to the Elimination of Drug and Alcohol Abuse will, once again, co-host a day long National Forum for campus chief executives and other senior administrators. We invite presidents, chancellors, trustees, vice-presidents, deans, and major unit directors to join in a day long collegial meeting with peers to consider leadership strategies for promoting safe and healthy learning and living environments.
This Forum will address issues associated with substance abuse and violence such as risk perception and reduction; campus liability; student retention issues; institutional response to tragic events; Higher Education Act implementation, especially crime reporting; statewide initiatives; accreditation issues; and shared governance issues.
The day will include the opportunity for senior administrators to meet with other National Meeting participants from the same geographical region and to join Department of Education officials. Watch the National Meeting Webpage for a detailed agenda as it develops. Register for the Forum by checking the appropriate box (Higher Education Senior Administrator) on the meeting registration form. For further information, please contact Dr. Joseph Marron, Network co-coordinator for the California - Guam - Hawaii region and vice-president for student services and enrollment management at United States International University.
Monday, November 8, 1999
8:00am to 5:30pm
| 8:00am-9:45am | President's Panel - Senior Administrators Attend this General Conference Session |
| 10:00am | Welcome Carole Middlebrooks Chair, Network of Colleges & Universities Committed to the Elimination of Drug and Alcohol Abuse Coordinator for Alcohol and Drug Education, University of Georgia Joe Marron, EdD Director, Senior Administrators Forum Network of Colleges and Universities Committed to The Elimination of Drug and Alcohol Abuse Vice president for Student Services and Enrollment Management, United States International University, San Diego, California |
| 10:10am | Greetings Paul Kesner U.S. Department of Education's Safe and Drug Free Schools Program |
| 10:30am | Keynote Ed Hammond, PhD President, Fort Hays State University, Kansas |
| 11:15am | Q & A with Dr. Hammond |
| 11:30am | Break |
| 11:45am | Beverly E. Ledbetter, JD Vice president and general counsel, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island |
| 12:30pm-1:00pm | Lunch |
| 1:00pm-1:45pm | Committee on University and Community Relations - Albany, New York Thomas Gebhardt Director of Personal Safety & Off-Campus Affairs, University at Albany, State University of New York Chairperson of the Committee on University & Community Relations Officer Fred Aliberti Albany Police Department Scott Wexler Executive director of the Empire State Restaurant and Tavern Association Robert Benedetto New York State Liquor Authority, Enforcement Bureau |
| 1:45pm-2:30pm | Community Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention Partnership Project - San Diego State University Louise Stanger, EdD Director, Community Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention Partnership, San Diego State University, California John Clapp, PhD Research director, Community Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention Partnership, San Diego State University, California |
| 2:30pm-2:45pm | Break |
| 2:45pm-3:30pm | William DeJong, PhD Director, U.S. Department of Education's Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention |
| 3:30pm-4:15pm | Risk and Protection: A Framework for Collegiate Substance Abuse Prevention John J. Ernst Program quality assurance unit director for the New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services Frances M. Harding Bureau director for the New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services, Bureau of Prevention and Intervention Policy and Resource Development |
| 4:15pm-5:00pm | Section 483 Higher Education Act - Suspension of Eligibility for Drug Related Offenses Lloyd Horwich Program Specialist, Office of Post Secondary Education - U.S. Department of Education |
| 5:00pm-5:30pm | Wrap up/Evaluation Joe Marron, EdD Director, Senior Administrators Forum Network of Colleges and Universities Committed to The Elimination of Drug and Alcohol Abuse Vice president for Student Services and Enrollment Management, United States International University, San Diego, California |
National Forum Speaker Biographies
| Fred Aliberti Officer Fred Aliberti of the Albany Police Department has been a police officer for twelve years. Originally from New York City, he has been in Albany for about twenty years having graduated from the University at Albany, SUNY with both a bachelors' and masters' degrees. For the past six years he has been a member of the Community Services Unit. His duties include public information, community relations and crime prevention. Officer Aliberti frequently addresses a variety of groups and business organizations. He has been an advocate for crime victims and for prevention and safety education for all age groups from children to senior citizens. He has been a strong advocate for maintaining communication and positive community relations with all university and college communities. He is the primary representative from the Albany Police Department on the Committee on University & Community Relations. |
| Robert
Benedetto Robert Benedetto has been employed by the New York State Liquor Authority, Enforcement Bureau, Albany office for about twenty-three years. He has held the positions of Investigator, Sr. Investigator and Supervisor in the Albany office, which is responsible for the ABC enforcement in thirty-five counties. Prior to his employment at the Authority, Bob was a licensed Private Investigator in the Albany area specializing in criminal, civil and domestic investigations. He was also employed by the Albany County Sheriff's Department as a Corrections Officer and a Deputy Sheriff assigned to the Investigation Bureau. Bob attended St. Bernard's College in Alabama and the College of St. Rose in Albany. He has been certified by the New York Department of Criminal Justice as a police Instructor in the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law. Bob has been an active member of the Committee on University & Community Relations. |
| John
Clapp, PhD John Clapp is assistant professor, San Diego State University, School of Social Work. He is also research director for the SDSU Community Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD) Prevention Partnership. Having worked in the area of AOD research and prevention for a decade, he has worked on numerous, federal, state, and county-level projects AOD revention projects. He has authored and co-authored several journal articles, conference papers and technical reports dealing with alcohol and other drugs. |
| William DeJong,
PhD Dr. DeJong is a lecturer on health communications at the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Dejong also serves as Director of the U.S. Department of Education's Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention, the nation's primary resource for assisting colleges and universities in developing, implementing, and evaluating alcohol and other drug prevention programs. Dr. DeJong's primary research interest is the development and testing of health communication and social marketing strategies, ranging from public service announcements and educational films to comprehensive mass media campaigns. His areas of interest include tobacco and alcohol control, drunk driving prevention, organ donation, and violence prevention. |
| John J. Ernst John J. Ernst is the Program Quality Assurance Unit Director for the New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services, Bureau of Prevention and Intervention Policy and Resource Development. His primary responsibility is the development of program operating guidelines and standards that are based on the current prevention research. Key to this responsibility is being current on research, analyzing the information, and developing it into sound prevention practice. John is also responsible for the ongoing review and revision of the results-focused workplan process utilized by all OASAS-funded prevention providers. This process, which directs funded providers to focus on results to be achieved through the provision of research based strategies and activities, is the cornerstone of OASAS = risk-and protection-based prevention framework. John also has served on a number of national workgroups. Currently, he is representing OASAS on the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention workgroup that is developing common prevention outcomes for all states. The group also is working on the development of a common data set for all states. |
| Thomas
Gebhardt Thomas Gebhardt is the Director of Personal Safety & Off-Campus Affairs at the University at Albany, SUNY and has been Chairperson of the Committee on University & Community Relations since its creation in the fall of 1990. He has worked in the field of off-campus affairs and community relations for fourteen years. In the fall of 1992 Tom was recognized by the University at Albany as the first recipient of the "Outstanding Professional Service Award" by the Division of Student Affairs for "significant contributions to improving university and community relations." The Committee on University & Community Relations itself received national recognition as a finalist/second place in the 1997 "Neighborhood of the Year" awards by "Neighborhoods USA" as well as local recognition by the Neighborhood Resource Center in the city of Albany as the "1995 Organization of the Year." In addition the committee was named "Runner-up for the 1997-98 Outstanding Public Relations Program Award" by Commission XVII - Commuter Students and Adult Learners - of the American College Personnel Association. Tom received his associates' degree from Corning Community College in Corning, New York and his bachelors' and masters' degrees at the University at Albany, SUNY. |
Edward H.
Hammond Dr. Edward H. Hammond is the eighth president of Fort Hays State University. He was born in McAllen, Texas, but reared in the Kansas City, Kan., area. President Hammond received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Emporia State University and the Ph.D. from the University of Missouri, Columbia. He also attended the University of Missouri School of Law. Hammond has held administrative positions at the universities of Louisville, Seton Hall, Southern Illinois, Purdue, and the University of Missouri, Columbia. The President has published and spoken nationally and is in demand as a consultant because of his expertise as a futurist and in educational issues and drug and alcohol abuse programs. At Fort Hays State University, President Hammond has been instrumental in computerizing the campus environment; the formation of the Western Kansas Educational Compact; the Western Kansas Coalition for Economic Development; Cooperative Bi-lingual Teacher Education programs and fund raising. |
| Frances M.
Harding For the past 16 years, Fran has worked in various positions in the alcohol and other drug abuse field, including her current role as Bureau Director for the New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services, Bureau of Prevention and Intervention Policy and Resource Development. Her primary responsibility is the development and maintenance of current policy and guidelines for the agency's prevention and intervention programming, including representation to the National Prevention Network (NPN); coordination of OASAS' College Program; EAP/Workplace Initiatives; and the newly developed Risk and Protection Framework for Prevention. Among Fran's many achievements, she co-authored Alcohol: The Gateway Drug Curriculum, designed and implemented the Regional College Alcohol Consortia Project, assisted with the design and pilot of the first Prevention Quality Assurance Program, and was appointed to the Government Select Task Force on the enactment into law of the 21-year-old purchase age in the State of New York. |
| Lloyd Horwich Lloyd Horwich is a program specialist with the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Student Financial Assistance. He is responsible for analyzing legislative, regulatory, and administrative issues to recommend improvements to federal postsecondary education student financial assistance programs. Lloyd also worked as a legislative assistant with the U.S. Senate's Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Lloyd represents the U.S. Department of Education on panels at various higher education conferences. |
| Beverly E.
Ledbetter, JD Beverly E. Ledbetter currently serves as the Vice President and General Counsel at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. She has earned a BS in Chemistry from Howard University and a JD in law from the University of Colorado. She also attended Harvard University's Institute for Education Management. She serves on the Board of Directors of the National Association of College and University Business Officers, the Civil Justice Advisory Group for the US District Court for the District of Rhode Island, is a faculty member for Harvard University's Management Development Program and Institute for School Law. |
| Joe Marron, PhD Dr. Joseph Marron serves as Vice President for Student Services and Enrollment Management at United States International University in San Diego, California. He served as Chief Student Affairs Officer at 3 different institutions over the last 11 years. He is very active in the Professional Associations within Higher Education and has made presentations at 100 national/regional conferences. Dr. Marron is a charter member of The Network of Colleges And Universities Committed To The Elimination Of Drug And Alcohol Abuse and currently serves as the Regional Coordinator for California Hawaii and Guam. He will also serve as the Director of the National Forum for Senior Administrators at United States Department of Education National Alcohol, Drug and Violence Conference in November 1999. |
| Carole
Middlebrooks Carole Middlebrooks is the coordinator of Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Education at the University of Georgia, a certified addiction counselor, a certified preventionist IV, a regional coordinator of the National Network of Colleges and Universities for the Elimination of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse, founder and Chairman of the Georgia Network of Colleges and Universities, and a former center associate for the Higher Education Center. Carole teaches peer educators, trains students/staff, presents prevention programs, advises three student organizations, chairs a campus-wide network, provides individual counseling and conducts weekly support groups and a therapy group on the UGA campus. |
| Louise
Stanger, EdD Louise Stanger is a lecturer at San Diego State University where she established, in 1988, the Student-to-Student alcohol and other drug prevention program. Since the program has been developed. She has been the recipient of national, state and local awards in alcohol and other drug prevention as well as marketing, public relations and advertising. In addition in 1998 she was selected as one of the outstanding advisors at San Diego State University. She was a recent SDSU Homecoming faculty dedicatee as well as the recipient of San Diego County's Outstanding Educator Award. Currently, she is the project director of the San Diego State University Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention Partnership a binational collaborative comprised of over 55 diverse groups whose goal is to reduce risk amongst college -age students. She received her BA in English literature from the University of Pittsburgh, a masters in social work from San Diego State College and a doctorate in leadership studies from the University of San Diego. |
| Scott Wexler Scott Wexler has served as Executive Director of the Empire State Restaurant and Tavern Association since 1985. This organization is the largest trade organization of alcohol beverage retailers in New York State. In this position, he has been involved in numerous issues on behalf of the association including the minimum drinking age, lowering the definition of drink driving, the regulation of smoking in public and the reform of music licensing practices. He has represented the association on the New York Project Zero Task Force, the New York State Governors' Traffic Safety Committee Strategic Planning Group and the Committee on University & Community Relations. Scott has also chaired the the Governmental Affairs Committee of the National Licensed Beverage Association. He was born and raised in New York City and attended the Bronx High School of Science and the University at Albany, SUNY. |
