Health and Wellbeing in Higher Education: A Commitment to Student Success

NACAS has signed onto a 15-association strong commitment to health and wellbeing in higher education. Through the pledge, originated by NIRSA and NASPA, organizations commit to innovating, supporting, and fostering a holistic, integrated, and strategic approach to well-being from the association level to the institutional level.
 
"We believe it is time to transcend reactive, siloed, programmatic approaches to health and establish foundational, proactive, well-being initiatives for the campus community. While students must receive appropriate and reactive care when needed, there are large-scale benefits to proactive, upstream approaches that will allow increasing numbers of students to flourish and thrive. By focusing on the whole — the whole person, the whole educational experience, the whole institution, the whole community — well-being becomes a multifaceted goal and a shared responsibility for the entire campus…" View Full Statement