Headed back to campus?
Is Your Campus Smoke and Tobacco Free?
With Back to School right around the corner, we have both good news and bad news for our Smokefree Colleges and Universities list.
The good news first: We have a brand new Colleges List addition, with Grand Valley State University in Michigan. This institution has 5 full campuses, and their comprehensive policy fully covers Electronic Smoking Devices, Hookah, and Marijuana.
The bad news: There are issues with the Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS). Many of its member campuses have been on our list for quite a while, having qualified for the list via comprehensive campus-specific policies, and many of those listed member campuses themselves represent multiple sites. Unfortunately, we have learned that many member campuses have now reverted to the system policy, which contains vague, list-disqualifying, educational/clinical exemption language, and so we had to remove those member campuses, including satellite locations, from the list. There may be additional removals in the future as we find out more. We hope our partners in Kentucky will be inspired to remove the problematic language from the system policy, which hasn’t been updated since 2016.
For questions about college policies please contact Laura Walpert.
See all of our updated lists on no-smoke.org
