2008 Woodie Awards
University develops ten-member faculty and staff Wellness Program Task Force
Nicole Heitmann
Issue date: 11/9/07 Section: News
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A new opportunity has arisen for the faculty and staff of Southwest Baptist University. President C. Pat Taylor has enlisted the help of five staff members and five faculty members to create a Wellness Program.
The Wellness Program Task Force is charged with "the responsibility of developing a comprehensive wellness program that will challenge all of the SBU family to make a healthy lifestyle a priority."
The chair of this task force is Linda Wooderson, Dean of Lewis E. Schollian College of Education and Social Sciences. Other members include David Bolton, Karen Campbell, Jamie Halbrook, Dwight Haun, Nancy Hodges, Jeff Kimball, J.D. Lynch, Scott McNeal, and Renee Waters.
The task force is at the beginning stages of seeing what will fit the SBU family.
"We [the task force] have been meeting on Thursdays and listening to ideas of wellness programs," said Wooderson. "We would like to have this program in motion by January or sometime in the first of the year."
The program will have the following principles of wellness: physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual, social, environmental and nutritional.
"Wellness is more than working out," said Wooderson. "We want it [the program] to be fun, life-changing, and eye-opening. We want to create a family of accountability. We need to be role models to our students and our families. If that means wearing a seat belt, getting a yearly physical, or walking more than riding so be it."
Wooderson stresses that this is not a workout program but a lifestyle change.
Wooderson believes that once this wellness program begins it will have a positive influence on not only the faculty and staff, but on the students as well.
"We're hoping that it will trickle down and we'll be role models to the students," said Wooderson.
The task force will continue to meet and discuss possibilities for the wellness program.
Once a program is selected, information will be available for faculty and staff on the web.
Wooderson not only hopes that good wellness choices will be made but interaction among the different colleges on campus will increase as faculty and staff begins to interact.
The Wellness Program Task Force is charged with "the responsibility of developing a comprehensive wellness program that will challenge all of the SBU family to make a healthy lifestyle a priority."
The chair of this task force is Linda Wooderson, Dean of Lewis E. Schollian College of Education and Social Sciences. Other members include David Bolton, Karen Campbell, Jamie Halbrook, Dwight Haun, Nancy Hodges, Jeff Kimball, J.D. Lynch, Scott McNeal, and Renee Waters.
The task force is at the beginning stages of seeing what will fit the SBU family.
"We [the task force] have been meeting on Thursdays and listening to ideas of wellness programs," said Wooderson. "We would like to have this program in motion by January or sometime in the first of the year."
The program will have the following principles of wellness: physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual, social, environmental and nutritional.
"Wellness is more than working out," said Wooderson. "We want it [the program] to be fun, life-changing, and eye-opening. We want to create a family of accountability. We need to be role models to our students and our families. If that means wearing a seat belt, getting a yearly physical, or walking more than riding so be it."
Wooderson stresses that this is not a workout program but a lifestyle change.
Wooderson believes that once this wellness program begins it will have a positive influence on not only the faculty and staff, but on the students as well.
"We're hoping that it will trickle down and we'll be role models to the students," said Wooderson.
The task force will continue to meet and discuss possibilities for the wellness program.
Once a program is selected, information will be available for faculty and staff on the web.
Wooderson not only hopes that good wellness choices will be made but interaction among the different colleges on campus will increase as faculty and staff begins to interact.
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