Goals
To have our staff play an active role encouraging students to seek out and maintain healthy habits.  Understanding how these lifestyle issues influence a student’s overall success is instrumental in their college career.

Sample Healthy Living Programs/Initiatives in our Halls

  •  Residence Hall students are actively involved on hall intramural teams.  These teams compete with other teams from around campus.
  • Massage and stress relief
  • Meditation
  • Reality Check – a myth busting program that uses student perception and reality to show that “the party isn’t as big as you think.”
  • Yoga
  • Sleeping well
  • Simulated exercised (like “Beer Goggles” to help students understand alcohol impairment.
  • Weekend non-alcoholic social programming
  • Safe Sex/Healthy choices
  • Spa Nights

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Values

  • Understand the impact of alcohol and drugs on student success.
  • Work to achieve balance in physical and emotional health.

Examples in our
Residence Halls


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Academic Engagement | Citizenship | Diversity Engagement | Healthy Living

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More Information:
Email: Kristin Carpenter,
Assistant Director of Residential Life

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