CU Well-Being Collective | Progress

The CU Well-Being Collective is working to report out on our progress by Fall 2024. 

Accomplishments

  • Initial iteration of Well-Being Map Completed 8/2024 
  • Listening Session for campus faculty, staff, and students scheduled 9/2024 
    • Date/Time/Link for Fac/Staff 
    • Date/Time/Location for Students 
  • Video explaining the Okanagan Charter and Well-Being Collective live  
  • Inaugural State of Well-Being Address scheduled for 11/2024 

Strategic Plan

  • A Vision for Campus Well-Being is currently being developed to provide a framework for drafting a campus wide strategic plan for well-being. 
  • The Vision for Campus Well-Being will be shared at the state of well-being address in November 2024 at the Health and Wellness Summit. 
  • Once drafted, a recruitment and selection process will begin for establishing our well-being collective working group. (anticipated to be fall semester 2024) 
  • This working group will utilize the vision and their connections across campus to draft our campus wide strategic plan. 

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.