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Linda Costigan Lederman, Ph.D.
    
CHI-The Center for Communication and Health Issues
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Introduction
to CHI
Linda C. Lederman is the Director
of CHI, the Center for Communication and Health Issues, which she founded in 1997 at Rutgers University to address the role
of communication in college health issues. Together with other senior faculty
from the Department of Communication, health professionals from the Rutgers University Health Services, graduate and undergraduate students, Dr. Lederman works to address the problem of dangerous
drinking on campus. CHI has been successful in receiving
funding from several sources, and was named a “model program" in 2000 by the
US Department of Education, one of only six universities so named in the country. CHI uses funding from such distinctions as well as grants from the National Institute of Drug Abuse and New Jersey Higher Education Consortium on Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention and Educations, among others, to convey a message that a Rutgers student does not have to drink dangerously to be accepted into the campus community. The partnership wants to get that message across, especially to first-year students and others new to campus, through a public awareness campaign called "RU Sure?"
Links to Published Journal Articles
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| Lederman, L.C., Stewart, L.P., Barr, S.L., Powell, R., Laitman, L., & Goodhart, F.W. (2000). RU SURE?: The role of communication theory and experiential learning in addressing dangerous drinking on the college campus. In L. C. Lederman & D. W. Gibson (Eds.), Communication Theory: A casebook approach (pp.325-335). Dubuque. IA: Kendall Hunt. |
| Lederman, L. C., Stewart, L. P., Barr, S. L., Powell, R., Laitman, L., & Goodhart, F. W. (2001). RU SURE? Using communication theory to reduce dangerous drinking on a college campus. In R.E. Rice & C.K. Atkin (Eds.), Public communication campaigns, 3rd ed. (pp. 295-299). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. |
| Lederman, L. C., Stewart, L. P., & Golubow, M. (2002). Using debriefing interviews to collect qualitative data on dangerous drinking: A case study. Qualitative Research Reports, 2, 1-8. |
| Lederman, L.C., Stewart, L.P., Kennedy, L., Donovan, B.W., Powell, R., Laitman, L., & Goodhart, F.W. Barr, S., & Mclaughlin, P. (2001). Using qualitative and quantitative methods to triangulate the research process: The role of communication in perpetuating the myth of dangerous drinking as the norm on college campuses. In S. L. Herndon & G. L. Kreps (Eds.), Qualitative research: Applications in organizational life, 2nd ed. (pp. 251-268). |
| Stewart, L.P., Lederman, L.C., with Golubow, M., Cattafesta, J.L., Goodhart, F.W., Powell, R., & Laitman, L. (2002). Applying communication theories to prevent dangerous drinking among college students: The RU SURE campaign. Communication Studies, 53, 381-399. |
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