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Well-being in Higher Education
February 26 @ 12:00 pm - February 29 @ 3:30 pm EST
Well-being in Higher Education
Raising Literacy and Advancing the Conversation
26 february-1 march 2024
Join over 20 higher education associations as we come together in dialogue around well-being. This buzzword is seemingly everywhere, but what does it really mean? Why does it matter? How can we each contribute to this critical work?
“Well-being in Higher Education: Raising Literacy and Advancing the Conversation” is a free, virtual event taking place 26 February – 1 March, 2024. Over 20 associations are collaborating with a goal to raise the literacy for well-being among higher education professionals and to advance conversation among colleagues on and across campuses.
The Well-being in Higher Education event is one of the outcomes of the Health and Well-being in Higher Education: A Commitment to Student Success and will help put the Inter-association Well-being Definition into practice.
Expected learning outcomes for this event are that, after attending, participants will be able to:
- Articulate why well-being is critical to the mission of higher education
- Discuss how each campus position is inherently a part of well-being work
- Describe the aspects of well-being and differentiate between wellness and well-being
- Identify opportunities for collaboration to increase campus well-being
Inter-association Well-being Definition
The Inter-association Well-being Definition is one outcome of the “Health and Well‑being in Higher Education: A Commitment to Student Success.” In our pursuit to co-create cultures of integrated well-being on campuses worldwide, we want to ensure we are building from a shared understanding and foundation. Since there was not an existing definition that defined well-being, especially as it applies to higher education, the members of our organizations asked that one be created.
This definition, and its supplementary material, is meant to be foundational; we hope a shared understanding can be a stepping stone to systemic change. This document is, of course, not exhaustive. Thank you to the many members who lent their expertise to the collaborative and review of this definition, including:
- Attendees of the first and second research summits hosted by NIRSA, NASPA, and ACHA
- The working group who continued this conversation after the second research summit and led the drafting and review process:
- Gina Abrams, Director of Research and Program Evaluation/Associate Professor, International Institute for Restorative Practices
- Stacy Andes, Director of Health Promotion, Villanova University
- Nicole Brocato, Director of the Wellbeing Assessment Study, Wake Forest University
- Stacy Connell, SLC Wellbeing, LLC
- All the boards, wellbeing-focused work groups and task forces, and others from the signatory associations who contributed to the feedback and review process
- All who attended feedback sessions at conferences and events, providing insight, questions, and ideas
