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Sustainability Plan Well-Being

Description: The climate of a campus influences decision-making from the individual to the university level. We will institutionalize the lens of sustainability at an organizational level, promoting a culture of health and inclusivity key to success.
Champion: Wellness
Source: Sustainability Plan

Commitments
  1. Provide tangible and visible examples of the Eight Dimensions of Wellness both in and around the MTWC, including their parallels to sustainability, by 2020.
  2. Launch the Center for Mindfulness and Authentic Excellence (CMAX) and provide robust programming/resources that foster flourishing and resilience to improve interpersonal and psychological well-being by 2019.
  3. Continue to raise awareness and developmental maturity about integrative wellness and the eight dimensions of wellness through collaborative partnership initiatives such as Healthy Campus 2020 Coalition, Wellness Passport Program, Sustainability, Wellness Application courses, Wellness Minor, Parks Rx Program, peer health education.
  4. Reduce the proportion of students who report nicotine use and explore paths to a tobacco free campus by 2021.
  5. Assess faculty and staff health and wellness needs and expansion of faculty and staff wellness resources, services, and incentives by 2019.
  6. Reduce the proportion of students who report engaging in high-risk drinking of alcoholic beverages within the last 30 days by 2021.
  7. Explore the feasibility of a campus-wide initiative to address food insecurity on campus by 2021.