Health & Wellness

When students need an emotional outlet, a campus cry map can show preferred private spaces to let the tears flow—or create a touch point for staff to step in and help.

The Student Well-being for Institutional Support Survey (SWISS) evaluates students’ perception of their college regarding aspects of well-being, including academic support, mental health resources, housing, dining and spiritual life resources.

Students engage with their religious or spiritual lives on campuses, where faith connections offer opportunities for community building and personal wellness.

The Marquette Wellness and Recreation Center, with an anticipated completion date of December 2024, consolidates wellness, counseling, health services and recreation, while expanding capacity for each of these areas.

External digital tools play an important supplementary role to campus programming for money management skill building. When colleges encourage offerings such as these, financial literacy can be just a click away.

During stressful times in the academic year, some higher ed institutions are bringing in mini horses to promote student wellness, increase morale and expose students to equines.

A new program at the University of Rochester provides mindfulness training to faculty, aiming to increase capacity for handling student concerns.

A Queens College professor and two students designed an online resource center to support neurodivergent students. Here’s how—and why—other institutions can better support faculty members and staff through a similar effort.