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Participants will understand the importance of incorporating a wellness approach into their daily work with students.

Participants will learn how to incorporate wellness into their daily work with students based on the goals of their specific functional area.

Participants will be exposed to national best practices involving the incorporation of wellness into the work of various functional areas.

Participants will understand the importance of collaborating and learn how to collaborate with other campus constituencies to provide wellness education to students.

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Rising health care costs

Skyrocketing national obesity rates

Higher levels of anxiety and stress

reported by college students

Ideal of developing the whole student as

articulated in the 1937 Student Personnel

Point of View

Health promotion serves to support

student learning

Link between health and academic

success

2011 Top 10 NCHA health impediments

to academic performance

Stress

Sleep Difficulties

Anxiety

Cold/Flu/Sore Throat

Work

Internet use/Computer

games

Depression

Concern for

Family/Friends

Relationship Difficulties

Extracurricular

Activities

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Definitions of wellness

History of wellness in higher education

Identifiable components (www.hettler.com)

› Physical

› Emotional

› Spiritual

› Occupational

› Intellectual

› Social

Additional:

› Cultural

› Financial

› Environmental

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Gallop poll’s five wellbeing components

› Career

› Social

› Financial

› Physical

› Community

Hettler’s 6 dimensions

7 Dimensions (Hettler’s + Environmental)

Gallop Poll

Hot Topic Wellness

Other

None

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Promote your institution as focused on

wellness through:

› Admissions materials (publications, tours)

Sharing the importance of taking care of

yourself to be academically successful

when talking to incoming students

Consider impacts on wellness when

creating and implementing policies

What is it?

Functional areas: › Residence Life & Housing

› Student Recreation

› Health Center

› Student Activities

› Alcohol & Other Drugs

› College Unions

› Advising

› Commuter Student Services

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Know Your Numbers

› North Carolina State University

Healthy Hawk Challenge

› University of Iowa

Encouraging healthy sleeping patterns

Healthy eating in on-campus dining

facilities

Wellness Living/Learning Communities

› University of Kentucky

› Illinois State University

› Luther College

› Trinity College

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Wellness Challenge

› Semester-long

Variety of fitness classes

Health fairs with local hospitals

Gym Free Workouts

Making the campus exercise-friendly

What is it?

Functional areas: › Counseling Center

› Advising

› Residence Life & Housing

› Health Center

› Campus Ministries

› International Student Services

› Multicultural Programs and Services

› Orientation

› Recreation Centers

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Colgate University- Emotional Wellness

Department

I Look Good in My Genes program http://www.colgate.edu/studentlife/lifeatcolgate/residentialed

ucationprogram/wellnessinitiative.html

Counseling Centers › Group counseling

Student-Led Initiatives › Post Secret Events throughout college campuses

› Peer Mentor programs

What is it?

Functional areas:

› Campus Ministries

› Counseling Services

› Admissions

› Service Learning

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UC Riverside- Mindful Meditation

http://wellness.ucr.edu/spiritual_wellness.html

Small group bible studies

› 3G Network

http://www.callutheran.edu/university_ministri

es/campus-ministry/

What is it?

Functional areas: › Study Abroad

› International Student Services

› Residence Life & Housing

› Women’s Centers

› LGBT Programs

› Multicultural Student Services

› Advising

› Student Conduct

› Student Leadership

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Orientation program Common Readers

Distinguished Speakers Series

Campus internationalization

Cultural Study Tours

Any opportunity for students of different

backgrounds to interact in an intentional

environment

What is it?

Functional areas: › Career Center

› Student Employment

› Admissions

› Service Learning

› Academic departments

› Advising

› Student Conduct

› Student Leadership

› Study Abroad

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Encouraging students to be

undeclared

Provide practical experiences to

allow students to understand the

world of work

What is it?

Functional Areas: › Residence Life & Housing › Recreation Center & Intramural Sports › Student Activities › International Services › Alcohol & Other Drug › Fraternity & Sorority Life › Student Unions › Orientation › Multicultural Programs › Student Leadership › LGBT Programs

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University of Washington- Experimental

College

http://depts.washington.edu/asuwxpcl/

University of Buffalo- Late Night

Programming

http://www.student-

affairs.buffalo.edu/activities/latenight.php

What is it?

Functional areas:

› Women’s Centers

› LGBT Programs

› Multicultural Student Services

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Multicultural and International Student Programs › World Fair

› Rock Your Roots

› Culture and Justice Clubs

Women’s Centers › Montana State University- Sack Lunch Series http://www.montana.edu/wwwwomen/sacklunch.htm

› Duke- Pipeline http://www.studentaffairs.duke.edu/wc/pipeline

What is it?

Functional areas:

› Admissions

› Financial Aid

› Orientation

› First Year Seminars

› Career Center

› Student Employment

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Financial Literacy education

› University of California, San Diego Cash

Course

http://www.cashcourse.org/ucsd/

› Incorporate into First Year Experience

courses

What is it?

Functional areas:

› Physical Plant

› Office of Sustainability

› Environmental Health & Safety

› Residence Life & Housing

› Dining Services

› Student Union

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Solar energy

Recycling programs: Recycle Mania

Contest

› University of California, Santa Barbara

Composting Earth Tub

› Colorado College

SPICES Program

› Suffolk University

The Zone

› University of California, San Diego

Wellness Card

› Cal Poly Pomona

› http://dsa.csupomona.edu/shs/wc/wellness_

card.asp

› Online & Paper assessments

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Work/life balance

Want students to become adults

concerned with their wellness and

independently pursue it

Practice what we teach

Encourage wellness practices into our

students daily lives

What is wellness for you as a

professional?

How do you model wellness for your

students?

What areas of your wellness would you

like to change to better serve as a role

model for students?

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Convention – Louisville 2012 › Look for our Open Business Meeting, Showcase table (pick

up a jump rope and water bottle!), sponsored programs, running groups, exercise class, and meditation room.

Wellness is EVERYONE’s business!

Influence students’ lifelong wellness

Encourage the development of current

wellness practices, which can become

future habits

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American College Health Association (2009). American College Health Association-National college health assessment Spring 2008 reference group data report (abridged). Journal of American College Health, 57(5), 477-488.

American Council on Education (1937). Student personnel point of view.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2011). http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/trends.html

California Lutheran University (2012).

www.callutheran.edu

Colgate University (2012). http://www.colgate.edu/studentlife/lifeatcolgate/residentialeducationprogram/wellnessinitiative.html

Colorado College (2012). http://sustainability.coloradocollege.edu/compost.html

Deberard, M. S., Spielmans, G. I., & Julka, D. L. (2004). Predictors of academic achievement and retention among college freshmen: A longitudinal study. College Student Journal, 38.

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Duke (2012).

http://www.studentaffairs.duke.edu/wc/pipeline

Edington, D. W. (2009). Zero trends: Health as a serious economic strategy.

Health Management Research Center: Ann Arbor, MI.

Hettler, B. (1980). Wellness promotion on a university campus. The Journal

of Health Promotion and Maintenance, 3, 77-95.

Illinois State University (2012). http://www.housing.ilstu.edu/current-

residents/themed-learning/wellness.shtml

Laufgraben, J. L. (2006). Common reading programs: Going beyond the

book (Monograph No. 44). Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina.

National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in

Transition.

Luther College (2012).

http://www.luther.edu/reslife/residencehalls/firstyearhalls/wellnessfloors/

North Carolina State University (2011). Personal communication.

Rath, T., & Harter, J. (2010). Well being: The five essential elements. Gallup

Press: New York.

Sharkin, B. (2004). College counseling and student retention: Research findings and implications for counseling centers. Journal of College Counseling, 7(2), 99-108.

Suffolk University (2011). Personal communication.

Trinity College (2012). http://www.trincoll.edu/StudentLife/HousingDining/FocusedCommunities/Pages/HealthWellness.aspx

University of California, Riverside (2012). http://wellness.ucr.edu

University of California, San Diego (2012). http://wellness.ucsd.edu

University of California, San Diego (2012). http://www.cashcourse.org/ucsd/

University of California, Santa Barbara (2012). http://www.ia.ucsb.edu/pa/display.aspx?pkey=1909

University of Buffalo (2012).http://www.student-affairs.buffalo.edu/activities/latenight.php

University of Iowa (2011). Personal communication.

University of Kentucky (2012). http://www.uky.edu/StudentAffairs/ResidenceLife/livingLearning/wellness

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University of Minnesota (2008, October 21). Grades In College Directly Linked To Health-related Behaviors. ScienceDaily. Retrieved February 10, 2012, from http://www.sciencedaily.com­ /releases/2008/10/081021120925.htm

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http://depts.washington.edu/asuwxpcl/