The Effect of Alcohol Abuse on Academic Achievement on Two-Year Campuses

McAloon, Daniel T.

doi:10.1177/009155219402200103

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“…As previously stated, intervention and educational program support are rare on community college campuses (Davis & Hunnicutt, 1992;McAloon, 1994;Presley et al, 1993). This study was an attempt to explore the influence of alcohol education programming on the drinking environment and to focus on what may be happening on campuses with extensive alcohol education programming.…”

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confidence: 97%

“…Community college professionals can take advantage of this window of accessibility by providing such programming. As McAloon (1994) asserted,…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Alcohol education and prevention programming can help contribute to meeting this mission. Indeed, Davis and Hunnicutt (1992) and McAloon (1994) recently called for community colleges to initiate campus educational programs.…”

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Effectiveness of an Alcohol Education Program Among Community College Students

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1998

Community College Journal of Research and Practice

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“…Community college professionals can take advantage of this window of accessibility by providing such programming. As McAloon (1994) asserted,…”

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confidence: 99%

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Effectiveness of an Alcohol Education Program Among Community College Students

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1998

Community College Journal of Research and Practice

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“…Other health issues such as sleep difficulties; anxiety (Gonzalez, 2009; American College Health Association [ACHA], 2012); depression (Eisenberg, Golberstein, & Hunt, 2009); and generally poor health decision making (DeBerard, Spielmans, & Julka, 2004) are also associated with academic failure for all students. The association between substance use and academic success has been well documented in the college population in general (e.g., ACHA, 2012;Hingson et al, 2002) and in the community college student population specifically (McAloon, 1994).…”

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The Feasibility of an Online Health Program for Community College Students

Donovan

Chiauzzi

Floyd

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Community College Journal of Research and Practice

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“…Prior to entering college, 4-year college students have vastly higher grades and test scores, socioeconomic status, better health, and fewer health risk behaviors than adolescents who did not matriculate in 4-year colleges (4). Nonrepresentative studies have found that community college students are at least as likely to binge drink as 4-year college students, adjusting for socioeconomic factors (5)(6)(7)(8), although the frequencies of binge drinking vary greatly among studies, from 25% (6) to 46% (9).…”

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confidence: 99%

Higher education among the “forgotten half”: The association between substance use and college completion among 2-year college students versus matched 4-year college students from a nationally representative longitudinal study

Rosenbaum¹

2019

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Background: Recent policy changes have increased marijuana availability to college students. Past research has not evaluated the association between substance use and college completion among the forgotten half of disadvantaged young adults who access higher education through 2-year colleges. Methods: This study uses a subsample of college-enrolled participants from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent and Adult Health to evaluate whether substance use in 2001 among students attending 2-year college and 4-year college predicts educational attainment in 2008. We used Mahalanobis nearest-neighbor and exact matching within propensity score calipers to identify a comparison group of 4-year college students (n=888) similar to the 2-year college students (n=1398) on 15 baseline measures including grades, test scores, and substance use. We used multivariate regression in the matched sample using a Poisson working model to estimate the relative risk of earning no post-secondary degree.Results: Compared with matched 4-year college students, 2-year college students were more likely to use methamphetamines, cocaine, marijuana, and more likely to report problematic substance use, and less likely to use alcohol. Two-year college students who used methamphetamines in the past year (IRR=1.51, 95% CI (1.12, 2.04), p=0.007) or past month (IRR=1.69, 95% CI (1.09, 2.61), p=0.02), or completed alcohol abuse treatment (IRR=1.58, 95% CI (1.21, 2.07), p<0.001) were less likely to complete college. Four-year college students who reported that drugs interfered with school or work in the past year (IRR=1.84 (1.28, 2.64), p=0.001), used cocaine in the past year (IRR=1.47 (1.04, 2.08), p=0.03), and used marijuana in the past year (IRR=1.30 (1.07, 1.57), p=0.007), past month (IRR=1.31 (1.07, 1.61), p=0.01), or ≥5 times in the past month (IRR=1.44 (1.12, 1.85) p=0.005) were less likely to complete college. Conclusions: Substance use interventions should target 2-year and 4-year college students. Two-year colleges that better accommodate students who complete substance use treatment may improve these students’ completion. Students who use marijuana or cocaine or whose drug use impairs functioning may benefit from an incremental approach of completing a 2-year degree prior to transfer for a 4-year degree, rather than enrolling directly in a 4-year program.

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The Effect of Alcohol Abuse on Academic Achievement on Two-Year Campuses

Cited by 14 publications

References 9 publications

Effectiveness of an Alcohol Education Program Among Community College Students

Effectiveness of an Alcohol Education Program Among Community College Students

The Feasibility of an Online Health Program for Community College Students

Higher education among the “forgotten half”: The association between substance use and college completion among 2-year college students versus matched 4-year college students from a nationally representative longitudinal study

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