Academic Integrity
Key teaching points in this module:
- What is academic cheating
- The prevalence of cheating on college campuses today (research data)
- Why do students cheat, cheating and low self-esteem
- Moral and ethical reasoning as it relates to making the decision to cheat
- Ethical principles and decision making
- The implications of getting caught
- Strategies a student can use to eliminate the need to cheat
Recommended for use by students who:
- have been caught academically cheating
Alcohol Education 101: Choosing A Direction (for 1st time referrals)
Key teaching points in this module:
- If you choose to consume, how can you do so responsibly?
- What is alcohol poisoning and what should you do if someone you know may have it?
- The concept of “tolerance” as it relates to alcohol consumption
- Characteristics of high risk consumption
- Positives and negatives of consumption
- Social norms – actual vs. perceived consumption
- Strategies to help students determine if there is a problem
- Long term effects of consumption
- Helping a friend
Recommended for use by students who:
- are involved with their first alcohol referral on campus
Alcohol Module 102: Choosing Options (for 2nd referrals)
Key teaching points in this module:
- Education and feedback to assist students in evaluating whether they have a problem with alcohol pertaining to: average number of drinks per week consumed, binge drinking and social norms; regularity of consumption; BAC; and unsafe behavior
- Abuse vs. dependence vs. addiction
- Things you can do if you think you have a problem
Recommended for use by students who:
- are involved with their second alcohol referral on campus
Anger Management
Key teaching points in this module:
- Understanding anger, its effects and manifestations
- Non-productive anger management strategies
- Productive strategies and tactics for managing anger
Recommended for use by students who:
- exhibiting behaviors that indicate that they may be having anger management problems
Being A Good Cyber Citizen 100
Key teaching points in this module:
- What are copyright laws and how do they apply to the Internet
- Online auction ethics
- Safety tips for blogs and social networking sites
- How to prevent cyber stalking and identity theft
- Tips for safely meeting people on-line
- Ideas for keeping your computer safe
- Ideas for keeping technology from overwhelming a student’s life
Recommended for use by students who:
- make bad choices in regards to technology
- misuse copyright laws on the Internet
- harass other students or cheating through the use of technology
Bystander Intervention
Key teaching points in this module:
- What is a bystander?
- Do bystanders have power?
- How are bystander behaviors connected to, or consistent with leadership skills?
- What are the stages of active bystanderism?
- How are bystander stages demonstrated?
- What are the barriers to being an active bystander?
- What are the different ways an active bystander can disrupt, intervene, or defuse potentially harmful, destructive or abusive situations from occurring?
Recommended for use by students who:
- may have witnessed an event and chose to not get involved, or have acted in a way to escalate a negative situation.
Civility and Respect
Key teaching points in this module:
- An overview of the concept of respect
- Maintaining civility in times of disagreement and hardship
- Incivility defined and examples of incivility
- Free speech and civility
- 8 Tips for behaving in a civil manner
- Understanding trigger points as they relate to uncivil or disrespectful behavior
- The Decisional Balance Sheet: A technique for critically analyzing outcomes of civil or uncivil behavior
Recommended for use by students who:
- are disrespectful/uncivil in their interactions with other students and/or staff
Community Living From “Me” to “We”
Key teaching points in this module:
- The definition of community and its relevance to on-campus living
- How to be a good community member
- Strategies for managing the inevitable conflicts that occur in a community
- Understanding the difference between individual rights as a community member, and the responsibilities that accompany them
- Policy rationale
- 8 Steps for being a better community member
- How communities make and carry out decisions
Recommended for use by student with:
- a general lack of consideration for others
- a lack of awareness about how their behavior can negatively impact the overall safety and security of the community
- a lack of respect for others or their belongings
- a lack of respect for the physical environment of the hall
- guest host problems/difficulties
Damage and Vandalism
Key teaching points in this module:
- What is community living?
- What is vandalism
- Examples of residence hall vandalism
- Facts and research about vandalism
- What can individuals in a community do about vandalism?
Recommended for use by students who:
- have been involved in vandalism
Dating Violence & Date Rape
Key teaching points in this module:
- Dating violence and the behaviors associated with unhealthy relationships
- Questions to help viewers determine if they are a potential abuser
- What is date and acquaintance rape and how prevalent is it?
- The myths and facts about sexual assault
- The causes of rape
- The traumatic effects of rape
Recommended for use by students who may be:
- involved in unhealthy and abusive relationships
- potential abusers
Diversity: Understanding Myself and Others
Key teaching points in this module:
- Understanding yourself and the things that are key to your identity
- Understanding how individual identity impacts interactions with others
- Understanding components of culture
- Concepts for learning about people who are different
- Marginality and mattering as concepts in relation to community
- Awareness and appreciation in relation to community
Recommended for students who are:
- challenged by interactions with others who are different from them
Fire Safety
Key teaching points in this module:
- Current events and news about fires on campus
- Prohibited Items and actions in the halls
- Evacuation tips in the event of fire
- Information on fire and smoke and why it is so dangerous
Recommended for use by students who:
- failed to evacuate during a fire alarm
- through carelessness have negligently (but not maliciously) activated a fire alarm
- have violated minor fire safety policy violations
- are disorderly or uncooperative during an evacuation
Healthy Relationships
Key teaching points in this module:
- The definition of a healthy relationship
- The basic components of healthy relationships
- Tools for maintaining healthy relationships
- Effective communication
- Healthy problem solving
Recommended for use by students engaged in:
- minor or significant relationship problems
- roommate conflicts
- conflict with other floor members or other peers
- conflicts with staff
Living Responsibly in an Off-Campus Environment
Key teaching points in this module:
- The definition and concept of “neighbor”
- How to understand and meet the needs of neighbors
- Ideas for living responsibly in a neighborhood
- Understanding local noise ordinances
- Responsible party hosting: prior to the party
- Responsible party hosting: during and after the party
- The negative consequences of living irresponsibly in an off-campus neighborhood
Recommended for students who are:
- having difficulties living responsibly in an off-campus environment
Marijuana
Key teaching points in this module:
- Smoking marijuana in the halls and the likely loss of housing privileges
- Research: THC and other chemicals in marijuana
- Marijuana and addiction
- Toxicity and detoxification issues with marijuana
- THC and the brain
- Marijuana and the body
- The societal impact of marijuana smoking
- Marijuana and medicine
- Legalization issues
Recommended for students at schools without zero tolerance policies who are:
- experiencing a first offense marijuana policy violation
Peer Harassment: There’s No Excuse for Abuse
Key teaching points in this module:
- What is verbal and written harassment?
- What is harassment as it relates to violation of property and personal space and safety?
- What is harassment as it relates to unwanted sexual interest?
- Students will learn whether they are part of the problem as it relates to harassment
- Students will learn how to be part of the solution when it relates to harassment
Recommended for use by students engaged:
- in written and verbal harassment
- in violating another’s property or personal space and safety
- in sexually inappropriate and harassing behavior
Personal and Physical Cleanliness in the Residence Halls
Key teaching points in this module:
- Why is cleanliness in a residence hall important
- Ramifications of an unclean living environment
- Pest control education and information
- The importance of personal hygiene
- How to clean
Recommended for students who:
- are living in unclean living environments that are compromising the residence hall community/environment
- may be exhibiting poor personal hygiene
- are living in areas with pest control problems
Personal Decision Making
Key teaching points in this module:
- That decisions are made as part of the normal routine of each day
- Strategies for making well thought out decisions
- Taking responsibility for action and inaction
- Putting decisions into action
- The five steps in intelligent decision making
Recommended for students who are:
- struggling with making good decisions and choices
- making decisions that may not be well thought through
- experiencing problems in accepting responsibility for the decisions that they make
- not thinking about the consequences of the decisions that they are making
Safe Living on a College Campus
Key teaching points in this module:
- The importance of locking your room door
- Key and ID security
- Keeping others informed of your whereabouts
- Paying attention to surroundings
- Keeping the exterior entrances to the residence halls secure
- Responsibly hosting guests in the residence halls
- Fire safety
- Safety tips for overall living
Recommended for students who:
- are involved in unsafe behavior
- have violated guest policies
- have violated fire safety policies
Smoking
Key teaching points in this module:
- “Did you know” facts about smoking
- Statistics about smoking
- College student targeting by tobacco companies
- The cost of tobacco and smoking
- The dangers of second hand smoke and smokeless tobacco
- Quitting tips and “stages of change”
- Long and short term strategies to help students quit smoking
Recommended for students who:
- violate university non-smoking policies
Successfully Living with a Roommate
Key teaching points in this module:
- Experience, expectations and communication and their relationship to successful roommate relations
- The ways people handle conflict
- Communication styles – non-assertive, assertive, aggressive
- Respect, perspective taking, stereotypes and parental/friend involvement as they relate to successful roommate relations
- Win-win communication strategies
- Typical causes of roommate conflicts with example problems and ideas for collaborative and compromising solutions
- How students should manage a roommate conflict
- When should staff be involved
Recommended for students who are:
- experiencing roommate conflicts
Understanding and Managing Conflict
Key teaching points in this module:
- Common views of conflict
- Defining and understanding conflict
- The five basic conflict styles
- Strategies for handling conflict situations
Recommended for students who are:
- having difficulties managing conflicts with others