(NCHIP) Learning Collaborative on High-Risk Drinking

Cornell has joined with colleges and universities from around the country to address the problem of binge drinking. The NCHIP Learning Collaborative uses evaluation and measurement techniques to identify and implement strategies to tackle binge drinking and the associated harm.

Cornell's campus improvement team (see members, below) is spending18 months working with researchers and scientists from The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice (TDI), bringing public health solutions and quality improvement methods to bear on the problem of binge drinking. They are using outcomes-based research (based on the Plan, Do, Study Act model— PDSA) to discover what programs work best, where they work, and why.

View the latest report from the NCHIP Learning Collaborative (pdf)

Cornell aims and strategies in action

• What do the data say about drinking at Cornell?
• Who experiences the most harm?
• What can be done to change the picture?

The two documents below have been used (in a poster format) to help share Cornell's story with other NCHIP collaborators.  

June 2011 poster

View Cornell's June 2011 poster (pdf, 1.11 MB)

January 2012 poster

View Cornell's January 2012 poster (pdf 2.28 MB)

Cornell's campus improvement team

Travis Apgar; Associate Dean of Students for Fraternity and Sorority Affairs

Joe Burke; Associate Dean of Students; Director, Residential Programs

Janet Corson-Rikert; Assistant Vice President for Campus Health; Executive Director, Gannett Health Services

Greg Eells; Director, Counseling and Psychological Services, Gannett Health Services

Marne Einarson; Associate Director, Institutional Research and Planning

Adam Gitlin; Executive Vice President, Student Assembly

Mary Beth Grant; Judicial Administrator

Kent Hubble; Dean of Students; Professor of Architecture

Deborah Lewis; Alcohol Projects Coordinator, Gannett Health Services

Tim Marchell; Director of Mental Health Initiatives; Gannett Health Services

John Mueller; Chair, Mental Health Committee, Student Assembly

Susan Murphy; Vice President, Student and Academic Services

Brandan O'Brien; Director, International Students and Scholars

Valarie Reyna; Professor, Human Development

Kathy Zoner; Chief, Cornell University Police

For more information

Contact Tim Marchell, PhD
Director of Mental Health Initiatives
Gannett Health Services