Well-being

STRATEGIC GOAL 5: Well-being

Enable employees and students to reach their full personal and professional potential by promoting and cultivating a college-wide climate of well-being and belonging through assessment, training, and increased visibility of available resources

KEY OBJECTIVES 

Create a Well-being Committee comprised of faculty, administration, staff, and students to spearhead and coordinate school well-being and belonging efforts

Tactics:

• Assign a chair to lead the Committee
• Identify committee members (staff, students, and faculty)
• Schedule annual meetings
• Coordinate wellness efforts with appropriate school units

Conduct a survey of student, staff, and faculty to assess perceptions of wellbeing culture, cultural sensitivity, and belonging at the school and address issues identified

Tactics:

• Develop and administer survey
• Analyze data and provide summary to Wellness Committee for review
• Create action plans based on issues identified

Increase visibility of available resources that promote and cultivate a welcoming environment and school-wide climate of well-being

Tactics:

• Update school website with a web-page dedicated to well-being dimensions and links to available resources
• Have first floor informational boards on each campus dedicated to wellness resources and topics

Assess the feasibility of offering well-being instruction/training in a standalone elective course and/or embedded longitudinally into targeted courses in a progressive manner

Tactics:

• Survey student and faculty interest in well-being instruction/training (if sufficient interest, proceed with further tactics)
•  Identify core elements of well-being for instruction/training and prioritize those most important to our stakeholders
• Develop specific content(s) for instruction/training
• Submit the coursework (for an elective, elective track, or a module) for approval
• Monitor outcomes and track enrollment