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Consulting Services (including Expert Analysis &Testimony)

I am a nationally-recognized authority in the areas of  college-student alcohol use/abuse and fraternity hazing. I am available as a consultant/expert/expert-witness in these areas. Please write to me at jim@jimarnold.us

My work has been frequently cited in academic journal articles as well as the popular press. My doctoral research, focusing on alcohol use and hazing in a college fraternity, was prominently featured in Hank Nuwer’s Wrongs of Passage: Fraternities, Sororities, Hazing, and Binge Drinking (Indiana University Press, 1999). Publications such as the New York Times (3-19-00), the Boston Globe (3-20-00), the Christian Science Monitor (9-18-00), the (Bloomington, IN) Herald-Times (9-29-01), the (Nashville) Tennessean (2-24-02),  and the (Fort Worth, TX) Star-Telegram (2-23-03) have utilized me as a resource on these topics.  My most recent publication on these topics is a chapter entitled “Hazing and Alcohol in a College Fraternity” in The Hazing Reader (Indiana University Press, 2004).

Here’s my (PDF format) resume´. And here’s a (PDF format) bibliography on the topics of college students, alcohol use, Greek life & hazing (updated periodically).

I am also nationally known for my expertise in the higher education topics of articulation & transfer. For over seven years I served as Director of Community College Articulation for the Oregon University System. In this position, I focused on two primary areas:

In 2001, I published a chapter in Transfer Students: Trends and Issues for the New Century. New Directions for Community Colleges, (No. 114, pp. 45-59), entitled “Student transfer between Oregon community colleges and Oregon University System institutions.”

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