Roma Seal, a senior health sciences and public health major from Bonney Lake, WA, and Gretchen Farkas, a junior public health major from Silverton, ID, traveled to Florida in November to present “Using Coursework to Improve Prevention Efforts on Campus and in the Community” at the National NASPA General Assembly for student affairs administrators in higher education. The NASPA General Assembly is the leading association for the advancement of the health and sustainability of the student affairs profession and it focuses on college efforts to promote healthy lifestyles for students.
Seal and Farkas’s work focused on helping college students better understand how point-of-sale tobacco marketing affects youth and how to develop community assessment and community collaboration skills and to practice sharing research findings with community groups.
“NASPA was a valuable experience,” said Gretchen. “Although it was challenging to do the work and create the presentation, I’d recommend it to anyone.”
“This was my third year at the NASPA Conference General Assembly” said Roma. “It was great to see people get excited about our work at Carroll.”