What Can Colleges Do About Binge Drinking?

Drinking dominates the college experience, but it poses severe risks for students: injury, sexual assault, death—not to mention the more common flunking or dropping out. For years colleges have tried to tackle the problem, but little of what they’ve done has had real impact. How can colleges control excessive drinking—or can they? Lots of research is out there, but what really works?

Chronicle writer Beth McMurtrie held a live Google Hangout Dec. 5 with John D. Clapp, director of the Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Drug Misuse Prevention and Recovery at Ohio State, and David S. Anderson, director of the Center for the Advancement of Public Health at George Mason University. To share your thoughts, email us at alcohol-feedback@chronicle.com.