CU Well-Being Collective | Committee

Collective Structure

Well-being Collective structure

The Collective Structure Includes: 

  • Advisory Board: A small group of key campus leadership who are capable of evaluating and moving recommendations from the Steering Committee forward at an institutional level. The board will consider feedback and recommendations from the wider Collective.
  • The Steering Committee: Provides strategic direction and decision-making authority regarding the common agenda, final identification of key performance indicators, and sustained long-term goal development and progress. The committee will consist of action team leads and Health and Wellness leadership, who will ensure alignment of working group initiatives.
  • Action Teams: Each action team will be comprised of a diverse cross section of campus representation and expertise. Under direction from the Steering Committee, the action teams will provide feedback on shared definitions and help identify goals and key performance indicators that support the faculty, staff, and student well-being. 

Steering Committee Members 

  • Kathryn Dailey, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Health and Wellness
  • Michael Klitzke, Senior Executive Aide to the Associate Vice Chancellor for Health and Wellness
  • Amanda Scates-Preisinger, Director of Health Promotion
  • Jess Morris, Program Director of Employee Wellness and Engagement
  • Dr. Burke Hilsabeck, Director of Faculty Relations & Community
  • Dr. Alicia Sepulveda, Assistant Director of Research at the Research on Affective Disorder and Development Lab

Progress 

  August 2023: Charter Signed; CU Boulder becomes one of the first 20 U.S. universities to adopt the Okanagan Charter 

  Fall 2023 – Spring 2024: Health Promotion staff conducted three rounds of surveys and interviews with campus partners to highlight the ways in which different units on campus provide support student, faculty, and staff wellness. 

  Fall 2023 – Spring 2024: Health and Wellness partnered with the Renee Crown Wellness Institute to conduct focus groups and a photovoice project on how and where students experience well-being on campus.  

  Fall 2024: Creation of the well-being systems map which allows users to see the strength of health and wellness programs while also identifying gaps and potential collaborations.  

  Fall 2024: Associate Vice Chancellor and Senior Wellness Officer Dr. Jess Doty holds the campuses inaugural State of Well-being on Campus. 

  Fall 2024: Call for nominations and recruitment of members to the Well-being Collective. 

  Spring 2025: The CU Well-being Collective receives its official charge and is launched.    

  Spring 2025: Steering Committee and action teams review key data sets and begin prioritization process for campus well-being goals. 

  Spring 2025: Campus celebrates inaugural U.S. Health Promoting Campuses Week with over 200 faculty, staff and students attending CU Thrive: Celebrating People, Place, and Planet.