Policy Ambassador Programs are one popular approach to policy enforcement that does not require the use of citations or fines. Student Ambassadors are trained to approach tobacco users on campus in a non-confrontational and friendly way.
Policy Compliance
Campuses take two broad approaches to enforcement: educational approaches and punitive approaches. Campuses typically spend the first year of a new policy focusing on educational approaches and then use punitive approaches (citations and fines) as needed after that.
Defining policy success is essential to effective compliance and enforcement. Setting data-based goals is important when assessing whether or not your campus should do more to increase compliance.
There are many things that a campus can do to increase policy compliance, however, putting time, energy and funding into launching a new policy is one of the most effective strategies to achieve policy success (see the Launching a New Policy page).
