Graduate Assistantships:
CROSSROADS: UNCW Substance Abuse Prevention & Education
Program
The CROSSROADS department in the Division of Student Affairs is hiring four (two 5-hour, one
10-hour, and one 20-hour) graduate assistants for the 2015-2016 academic year.
Position #1- Conduct Interventions and Evaluation and Assessment (20 hours)
The responsibilities of this graduate assistant are:
 Teaching Challenging Decisions. The graduate assistant will co-lead the classes for students
who are part of the campus conduct system. . This educational intervention for students is a
small group class that focuses on motivation enhancement, harm reduction techniques, and
personalized feedback.
 Individual Interventions. The graduate assistants will be responsible for several one-on-one
services provided by the office. These include educational interventions for students who are
found responsible for marijuana violations, individual feedback sessions with students found
responsible for alcohol violations, and feedback and support of community members who
want to stop using tobacco products.
 This graduate assistant will also assist the professional staff in developing assessment
instruments, compiling and analyzing statistical data, and preparing data for conference
presentations and publications.
 This graduate assistant will compile descriptive statistical reports for the Director of
Substance Abuse & Violence Prevention about program effectiveness.
Position #2- Conduct Interventions (10 hours)
The responsibilities of this graduate assistant are:
 Teaching Challenging Decisions. The graduate assistant will co-lead the classes for students
who are part of the campus conduct system. This educational intervention for students is a
small group class that focuses on motivation enhancement, harm reduction techniques, and
personalized feedback.
 Individual Interventions. The graduate assistants will be responsible for several one-on-one
services provided by the office. These include educational interventions for students who are
found responsible for marijuana violations, individual feedback sessions with students found
responsible for alcohol violations, and feedback and support of community members who
want to stop using tobacco products.
Positions #3- Conduct Interventions (5 hours)
 Teaching Challenging Decisions. The graduate assistant will co-lead the classes for students
who are part of the campus conduct system. This educational intervention for students is a
small group class that focuses on motivation enhancement, harm reduction techniques, and
personalized feedback.
All graduate assistants will function as professional staff members by attending staff meetings,
providing leadership to peer educators, and striving to enhance the scope and quality of our services.
Preference will be given to applications received by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, April 10, 2015.
CROSSROADS
Mission Statement
CROSSROADS, Substance Abuse Prevention and Education Programs, is dedicated to the
advancement of thoughtful and healthy decision making regarding the use of alcohol, tobacco
and other drugs by high school and college students. CROSSROADS encourages legal
accountability and personal responsibility in all choices by providing access to the most current
information available and encouraging a critical examination of beliefs and cultural expectations
about substances in our lives. CROSSROADS programming will fall under one or more of the
following directions: early identification and intervention for individual students, impacting
individuals for behavior change, campus-wide collaboration on creating a healthy environment,
and connection to community to create healthy environments for current and upcoming students.
www.uncw.edu/crossroads
962-4136