WELCOME

Student affairs professionals are in a unique and strong position to lead efforts to develop and implement a thoughtful strategy for creating a healthy campus. Such a strategy would provide programs and services designed to improve the health and safety of students and to sustain a campus social and learning environment that supports and enables student learning.

Student learning is at the core of the academic mission of all colleges and universities. Students' health and well-being - qualities that must be understood comprehensively and holistically -- have a significant influence on their academic and personal success. Creating a campus environment that supports student health and safety is therefore an important, broad institutional responsibility that requires commitment from every institutional resource, both inside and outside the classroom. Just as the whole campus can - and should - be considered a learning community, the whole campus can support health.

Two areas of this Web site are resources for efforts to make our campuses healthier places in which students live, grow, and learn:

  • The Health Education and Leadership Program (HELP) section offers resources developed during the nine years of a national project funded by two Cooperative Agreements with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to address HIV prevention education and related health issues. The work of HELP provides a framework for developing a healthy campus that transcends traditional health service programs.
  • The Health in Higher Education Knowledge Community provides opportunities to study, discuss, and address the relationship between health and learning in college environments and offers participants a connection to other professionals who share their interests and concerns.

HHEKC | HELP | Alcohol & Other Drug Knowledge Community | NASPA