Prevention Profiles: Take Five Mallory Jordan

The job of an upper-level administrator is hard. They're often unnecessarily polarized by politics, stigma, sexism, and so on. When you're confident in your craft, your voice comes through loud and clear, but it is difficult to always be confident when you have many students depending on you.

To the professionals who are working to prevent drug misuse among college students, either on campus or in a community, Mallory Jordan has only encouragements. No matter how difficult your job gets, you have to take the time to be seen and heard. Your passion, time, and energy are appreciated by the students, colleagues, friends, and family members around you.

"Whether you hold a title, you have a big position, a lot of power, ultimately, we're all people at the end of the day."

Mallory Jordan, Senior Director of Health, Safety, & Well-Being Initiatives for NASPA?Student Affairs Professionals in Higher Education, is this month's guest on Prevention Profiles: Take Five. During the interview, Mallory discusses ways in which student affairs administrators can provide leadership in preventing drug use and misuse among college students, the impact of states? legalizing nonmedical marijuana use on the nation?s colleges and universities, benefits and challenges of statewide initiatives to prevent drug use among college students, and more!

Read the transcript or listen to our podcast to?discover how?upper-level?administrators can provide leadership.

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