Task Force
In 2013, CSULB’s student body voted on a referendum to make the campus a smoke-free environment. At the time of the vote, student-voter turnout was at a record high and the referendum was approved by about 64 percent of voters.
Following this, President Conoley convened a university-wide task force comprised of students, faculty and staff to provide suggestions on how best to implement a new comprehensive smoking and tobacco policy by fall 2016. The task force has helped develop recommendations on how to construct and implement the new policy. Central to their work has been the development of the Breathe campaign that will ensure those most affected by the outcome of the referendum continue to feel like highly valued members of the Beach community.
For more information, see the report of the CSULB Tobacco and Smoke Free Task Force.
Task Force Objectives
- Articulate the benefits and determinants of, and obstacles to becoming a tobacco-and smoke-free campus;
- Evaluate the risk and liabilities associated with continuing to allow: the use of tobacco and smoke products on campus and becoming a tobacco-and smoke-free campus;
- Engage the campus community in a dialogue regarding becoming a tobacco-and smoke-free campus to seek input from all constituencies;
- Develop a draft tobacco-and smoke-free campus policy, including a compliance/enforcement component;
- Identify programs to support smoking and tobacco-use cessation by students, faculty, and staff;
- Recommend an implementation strategy to execute a tobacco-and smoke-free campus policy;
- Establish the timeline of campus activities to implement a tobacco-and smoke-free policy;
- Quantify the financial resources required to implement a tobacco-and smoke-free policy, including support for cessation programs.
Task Force Members
- Claire Garrido-Ortega, Co-Chair (Faculty)
- Natalie Whitehouse-Capuano, Co-Chair (Faculty)
- Isabella Lanza, CLA Faculty - Academic Senate Representative
- Eric Haas-Stapleton, CNSM Faculty - Academic Senate Representative
- Lisa Nguyen, Student – ASI Representative
- Elizabeth Martin, Faculty Affairs Representative
- Scott Apel, Human Resources Representative
- Angela Girard, RN - Student Health Services Representative
- Heidi Ortiz - Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs Program Coordinator, Student Health Services Representative
- Carol Menard-Fulthrop - Student Affairs Representative
- Michael Jackson - Student Affairs Representative
- Douglas Domingo-Foraste - California Faculty Association Representative
- Dora Apodaca, Staff Union Representative
- Stephanie Baugh, Athletics Representative
- Kathryn Havey, Carpenter Center for Performing Arts Representative
- CCPE/ALI Representative
- Jennifer Sherrin, President’s Office Representative
- Administrative Representative
- Terrance Graham, Center for International Education Representative
- Richard Goodwin, Lieutenant, University Police Representative
- Corrie O’Toole, Faculty and Staff Assistance Program Representative
- Special Interests Representative
- Berta Hanson, Human Resources, Staff to the Task Force
