Talking Stick - July/August 2014 - 52

REPORTING OUT

Michigan Wins Dining Award
The East Quad Dining facility at the University of Michigan in
Ann Arbor has been awarded the most prestigious honor from
the National Association of College & University Food Services
(NACUFS): the Gold honor for the 2014 Loyal E. Horton Dining
Awards in the Large Schools Residential Dining Concepts category
after being evaluated for its menu, nutrition and wellness,
presentation, marketing, and operational standards. This newly
renovated dining space includes seven micro-restaurants that each
have their own cooking style, anywhere from pizza to vegetarian
options. Smaller plates are used to encourage diners to try a variety
of options. The micro-restaurant format also allows the chefs to
tweak and improve a particular food concept.

New Test for Green Literacy
Over the past year, several hundred national and
international faculty, administrators, green experts,
and organizations such as the Association for the
Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education
(AASHE) and the Higher Education Associations
Sustainability Consortium (HEASC) have collaborated to
develop the Sustainability Literacy Test. This test, available
in 15 languages, will be offered to both undergraduate
and graduate students all over the world as a means to
evaluate their basic knowledge of sustainability and social
responsibility. This is the ﬁrst world-wide sustainability
assessment tool, and the developers are looking for
educators to help pilot it by October 10. They plan to
present the test results at the United Nations' World
Conference on Education for Sustainable Development-
Learning Today for a Sustainable Future to be held
in Nagoya, Japan, in November of 2014. For more
information, go to www.sustainabilitytest.org.

Recovery Programs
Back in the Spotlight
The Ohio State University in Columbus
is working to join institutions that have
implemented Collegiate Recovery Programs
(CRPs), which are speciﬁcally designed
for supporting students personally and
socially as they continue their recovery from
addiction. These programs encourage service,
involvement, and leadership among the
participating students to promote long-term
recovery and a healthy lifestyle. The ﬁrst CRP
began at Brown University in Providence,
Rhode Island, in 1977 and has since caught
on with various institutions throughout the
United States. Results from the 2013 study
of CRPs (the ﬁrst national study of these
programs) show that students involved
in CRPs were 92 percent successful in
maintaining recovery, and the overall retention
rate for CRP students was 89 percent, which
is higher than the 61 percent average for nonCRP students. While CRPs are instrumental
in assisting recovering students to achieve
personal and academic success, they are
also valuable in revealing a subculture that
doesn't revolve around alcohol or drugs. Sarah
Nerad, a dual master's student in social work
and public administration at Ohio State,
knows ﬁrst-hand the importance of CRPs for
community and support, as she excelled in her
undergraduate experience through the CRP
at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. Building
upon the beneﬁts of her own experience, she
is now an advocate for CRPs and is helping
build the ﬁrst CRP community and recovery
house on the Columbus campus. Nerad and
fellow recovering student, Benjamin John
Chin, have recently co-authored an article
highlighting the signiﬁcance of CRPs on both
the student and the institution.
Alexandre B. Laudet, Collegiate Recovery Programs: Results
from the First National Survey (April 2013).
http://www.depts.ttu.edu/hs/csa/collegiate_recovery_
conference/presentations/2013/Alexandre-Laudet-Results.pdf.
Sarah Nerad and Benjamin John Chin, "A New Campus
Culture: The Rise and Success of Collegiate Recovery
Programs, "Focal Point: Youth, Young Adults, & Mental Health
(Summer 2014).www.pathwaysrtc.pdx.edu/pdf/fpS14.pdf.

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