JMU Core Alcohol and Drug Survey April 2008

One of the documents that I requested under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act was the JMU Core Alcohol and Drug Survey April 2008.  Below are pages from that Survey that can be compared to the earlier post "JMU Core Alcohol and Drug Survey April 2010".  This is one of the outcome measures that was identified in the JMU Student Affairs and University Planning Vision and Strategic Plan 2014 (see earlier post).

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The data from this 2008 Survey needs to be compared to the data from the 2010 Survey.  As noted in the 2010 Survey results- most JMU students saw drinking as "central in the social life" of most JMU students.

 Table 3 " Problematic Experiences looks very similar from 2008 to 2010.  The average number of drinks consumed per week at JMU was 8 drinks in 2008 and 8.6 in 2010.  This compares to a national average of 5.5 in 2008 and 5.5 in 2010. The percentage of students who report having binged in the last two weeks at JMU was 62.2% in 2008 as compared to a national average of 46.7% in 2008.  The percentage of students who report having binged in the last two weeks at JMU is 60.5% as compared to the national average of 46.7% in 2010.  JMU was well above the national average in binge drinking in both 2008 and 2010.  The differences in the two reports do not look very significant to me- So far I do not see the JMU comprehensive alcohol plan showing that "students will report a decrease in the negative behaviors associated with alcohol use"- the outcome measure identified in the SAUP plan under Performance Indicators 1.3.