Center for Healthful Living
The Center for Healthful Living (CHL) promotes healthful living though educational programs that encourage frequent physical activity and informed lifestyle choices. The CHL provides a wide range of opportunities for physical engagement including organized team sports, intramural offerings, access to state-of-the-art fitness facilities, and a diverse assortment of other recreational activities. Additionally, credit-bearing courses and extracurricular health education promote an understanding of the importance and interplay of the multiple dimensions of fitness and wellness.
The Center for Healthful Living’s emphasis on the balance between the physical, emotional, social, mental, spiritual, environmental, and occupational aspects of our being provides the campus community with pathways toward optimal living. The Center’s staff comprises teachers, coaches, health educators, and fitness instructors who collaborate with college nutritionists, Student Health and Counseling professionals, Academic Services, the academic divisions, and other units to create a campus-wide approach to wellness.
Health Education
Health education is one strategy of health promotion. The goal of health education is to help students learn about healthy behaviors. Often times, health education includes educational workshops in an individual or group setting. Our health educator aims to address common student health issues through education and outreach to support healthy living.
What is health promotion?
Health promotion moves beyond the individual-level scope of health education and focuses on broader, community-level interventions. Health promotion often includes changing environmental conditions to support healthy living through advocacy, coalition building and policy change. Our health educator conducts assessments on campus wellness and analyzes data to determine priorities.