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Rutgers receives $5M along with other NJ colleges for drug recovery Christian Zapata Correspondent
Prior to his transition out of office earlier this week, former Gov. Chris Christie (R-N.J.) announced that Rutgers, among other New Jersey colleges, will receive $5 million to expand campus recovery treatment services. Rutgers—New Brunswick and Newark, alongside The College of New Jersey (TCNJ), Montclair State University and Ramapo College of New Jersey, will receive roughly $950,000 of the $4,762,000 lump sum, according to an email from the governor’s office. “The ‘Supporting Students in Recovery’ program will provide or expand supportive, substance-free living environments for college students in recovery as well as services aimed at preventing addiction,” according to the email. Individuals ages 18-29 comprised 40 percent of all treatment admissions reported to New Jersey’s Substance Abuse Monitoring System in 2016, according to the email. Heroin use among young adults has more than doubled in the past decade, contributing to a rise in overdose rates. The five contracts, issued by the Division of Mental Health and Addiction Ser vices (DMHAS) in conjunction with the Depar tment of Mental Health, cap Christie’s longstanding ef for ts to treat addiction as a disease and his push for integrated primar y and behavioral health care in New Jersey. “These recover y dorms provide a community of support for students and useful tools to help them in the life-long battle to
maintain sobriety,” Christie said in the email. “It’s important that we bring these ser vices directly to the campuses, right where the students and their stressors and temptations are.” The Alcohol and Other Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) at Rutgers applied for funds through a competitive grant process, but does not know how much they have received, said Lisa Laitman, ADAP director. “When we learn that information, we will be able to make decisions about how the funds will be utilized to expand the recovery program,” she said. The University is currently the only educational institution in New Jersey that has a drug housing program and has done so since 1988. The ADAP Recovery House was one of the first Collegiate Recovery Programs in the country and the first to provide recovery housing, Laitman said. A leader in the movement to bring recovery support on college campuses, ADAP is part of the University’s Counseling, ADAP and Psychiatric Services (CAPS) and Rutgers Student Health, all of which are covered by students’ fees, Laitman said. These services work under an umbrella of health services offered by the University, one that covers everything from counseling to psychiatry, group therapy and a host of other services available to all students, according to Rutgers Student Affairs. “The Recover y House is part of on-campus housing at Rutgers,” Laitman said. “ADAP has a grant from the NJ Division of Mental Health and Addiction Ser vices,
Rutgers—New Brunswick and Newark will divvy more than $4 million along with The College of New Jersey (TCNJ), Montclair State Unversity and Ramapo College of New Jersey, to fund their own drug recovery programs. FLICKR which helps us to cover sober activities for the students in the recover y community.” She said that students who are interested in living at the Recover y House must be sober for at least 90 days and have made a commitment to recover y. Usually, these students have completed an addiction treatment program prior to their acceptance. ADAP offers students opportunities to reduce their drug and alcohol use, sometimes refers them to more intensive treatment programs and supports those who are in recovery, Laitman said.
“The Recover y House is a 12-month residence so that students in recover y can maintain a stable recover y support network and not have to relocate in the summer,” she said. “The Recover y House is available to students in recover y as long as they are enrolled Rutgers students. There is no time limit for residents.” Paintball, 5-kilometer marathons and ser vice activities are just a few ways ADAP builds a community around recover y efforts. Sober alternatives to alcoholic party traditions, like Super Bowl Sunday and Halloween,
U. students build bridges in Bolivia
Synchronous halls help students cut down on travel time
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This semester marks the University’s third semester using the Immersive Synchronous Lecture System, an innovative classroom style that allows faculty to teach in two places at once. The system, which splits up a traditionally large lecture into two smaller classrooms, uses technology that allows professors to interact with two sets of students, according to an Inside Higher Ed article. The goal of the system is to reduce student traffic and the burden of transportation. Similar to the idea of a hologram, professors go about their
bring students closer together and create friends for life, Laitman said. “The Recover y House does not act as a treatment program. Its purpose is to provide a supportive living environment for students already committed to recover y,” she said. “Universities with supportive recover y housing offer more options for students in recover y and an opportunity to become part of the campus community in ways that might not be available without campus-based supportive housing for students in recover y.”
Using synchronous lecture halls, professors can teach two classes from the same room. Students taking a class on Busch campus can see their classmates in that same class on Douglass. DANTE DE LA PAVA ever yday lectures while a collection of high-tech cameras and more than 32 microphones capture their image and voice — plastering a life-sized image onto a screen in a different lecture hall, on a different campus, according to NJ Advance Media.
Cameras display a full image of the other classroom onto large panels in each room, meaning that students on one campus can see their classmates on another. Whenever a student speaks, the video and sound See Time on Page 4
Instead of catching waves during summer vacation, students involved with Bridges to Prosperity are preparing to help small communities all over the globe, one bridge at a time. Husam Najm, a Bridges to Prosperity advisor, said that for many global communities, bridges can provide a gateway to safer travel and improved livelihood. For one isolated community in Bolivia, floods and rainy seasons mean riskier travel across rivers. This prevents the community from accessing schools and their crops. Last summer, Bridges to Prosperity had one goal — to give
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people access to their community all year round. Along with helping improve the lives of local community members, Bridges to Prosperity offers engineering students a rare opportunity to apply what they have been taught. “The mission of Bridges to Prosperity is to offer our students the opportunity to apply engineering theory in a very real-life, practical way,” said Ilene Rosen, associate dean of the School of Engineering. In projects where Bridges to Prosperity has participated, members were able to get a hands-on education and obtain a humanitarian perspective on the purpose of their work. See Bridges on Page 5