Well-being in Higher Education
Virtual Event Health, Safety, and Well-being Health, Safety, and Well-being Initiatives Wellness and Health Promotion
October 22, 2025
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IWC Learning Series
Series Overview:
As the Inter-association Well-being Collaborative (IWC) moves from commitment to implementation, we are proud to launch a dynamic webinar series designed to equip higher education professionals and association staff with tools to embed well-being into campus systems and structures.
This multi-part series brings the IWC’s core principles to life: transcending silos, embedding well-being across all roles and functions, and advancing a shared vision for thriving campus communities. Through interactive sessions, real-world examples, and global perspectives, we aim to build capacity, inspire innovation, and foster collaboration across sectors.
Session 1: “This Isn’t My Job”… Or Is It? Rethinking Your Role in Campus Well‑Being
“This Isn’t My Job”… Or Is It? kicks off a new Inter-Association Well-being Collaborative Learning Series on campus well-being. This interactive session invites you to rethink how everyday decisions, in academics, student support, operations, or leadership, affect student success and campus climate. Discover why well-being is everyone’s job, and how you can make an impact.
Date: October 22, 2025 - 1:00pm - 2:00pm ET
Audience: Higher education professionals across all functional areas
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About
Join over 20 higher education associations as we come together in dialogue around well-being. This buzzword is seemingly everywhere, but what does it really mean? Why does it matter? How can we each contribute to this critical work?
Well-being in Higher Education: Raising Literacy and Advancing the Conversation is a collaborative effort between 20+ higher education associations with the goal of raising the literacy for well-being among participating higher education professionals.
Participating Associations
Inter-association Well-being Definition
The Inter-association Well-being Definition is one outcome of the “Health and Well‑being in Higher Education: A Commitment to Student Success.” In our pursuit to co-create cultures of integrated well-being on campuses worldwide, we want to ensure we are building from a shared understanding and foundation. Since there was not an existing definition that defined well-being, especially as it applies to higher education, the members of our organizations asked that one be created.
Inter-association Well-being Definition
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This definition, and its supplementary material, is meant to be foundational; we hope a shared understanding can be a stepping stone to systemic change. This document is, of course, not exhaustive. Thank you to the many members who lent their expertise to the collaborative and review of this definition, including:
- Attendees of the first and second research summits hosted by NIRSA, NASPA, and ACHA
- The working group who continued this conversation after the second research summit and led the drafting and review process:
- Gina Abrams, Director of Research and Program Evaluation/Associate Professor, International Institute for Restorative Practices
- Stacy Andes, Director of Health Promotion, Villanova University
- Nicole Brocato, Director of the Wellbeing Assessment Study, Wake Forest University
- Stacy Connell, SLC Wellbeing, LLC
- All the boards, wellbeing-focused work groups and task forces, and others from the signatory associations who contributed to the feedback and review process
- All who attended feedback sessions at conferences and events, providing insight, questions, and ideas
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