Beyond Silos
Bridging Academic and Student Affairs
to Advance Student Wellbeing
Watch the full webinar
The LearningWell Coalition, in collaboration with U.S. Health Promoting Campuses Network, hosted this one-hour virtual panel discussion on Thursday, February 5, bringing together leaders and practitioners from academic and student affairs to explore how higher education leaders can adopt a whole-campus approach to student wellbeing.
Panelists discussed:
- Fundamental approaches to all-campus wellbeing
- Where academic affairs and student affairs intersect most naturally in supporting student wellbeing
- Examples of campuses that are successfully bridging the divide between these efforts
- The role of faculty as partners in student wellbeing
- How institutions can embed wellbeing into culture, policy, and assessment
- What deeper collaboration across organizations and networks could look like over the next several years
Panelists
Jennifer Fee
Assistant Director of Curriculum and Training Development, Skorton Center for Health Initiatives, Cornell University
Kelly Gorman
Director of the Office of Health Promotion at the University at Albany, SUNY, U.S. Health Promoting Campuses Network Institutional Adopter
Angela Lindner
Interim Vice Provost, Office of Undergraduate Affairs, Interim William H. Wadsworth Engineering Leadership Institute Director and Associate Professor, Department of Engineering Education at the University of Florida; LearningWell Coalition Executive Committee Member
Joe Tranquillo
Associate Provost for Transformative Teaching and Learning and Professor at Bucknell University
The session was led by Thaddeus Mantaro, Dean of Student Health and Wellness at Dallas College
The panel was moderated by Marjorie Malpiede, Editor-in-Chief of LearningWell Magazine
