CROSS-CURRICULAR APPROACHES TO WELLNESS

The Wellness Center will integrate the College’s Nursing, Physical Education, Health Education/Health Services and Athletic programs in creating educational programs for wellness. Placing these areas in one location will allow for the interdepartmental collaboration needed to develop and implement the health and wellness education programs we envision. This innovative cross-curricular approach to health, well-being, and learning—the first of its kind—will serve as a model for other colleges and universities across America.

Program modules will develop from teaching activities in the School of Arts and Sciences and in the School of Nursing. Students have already conducted community health care assessments (collecting data and surveys), in conjunction with the College’s Health Services, in communities surrounding the city campuses and responded with programs on asthma, diabetes, child safety, nutrition and obesity, stress reduction, maternal/child health, and drug education. The School of Nursing will also create education exhibits, presentations, and materials to share with school districts and various community groups in Westchester and other urban and traditionally underserved populations.

The Center’s major educational spaces include:

• Classrooms and Seminar Rooms

• Technologically Equipped Conference Rooms

• Health Services

• Holistic Meditation Room

• Contemplation Garden

• Fitness & Weight Room 

• Aerobics & Dance Studio

• Competition-size Swimming Pool with spectator seating for 100

• 1,500-seat Gymnasium/Auditorium

• Indoor Running Track