Full Description
Amid global challenges like climate change, systemic racism, and the COVID-19 pandemic, the complexity of higher education's role in addressing human health and well-being is evident. Health Promoting Universities explores how post-secondary education can address interconnected well-being challenges through collaborative leadership at organizational, provincial/state, national, and international levels.
Written by health promoting university leaders from Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States, this collection reflects on research findings and emergent insights in taking a systems and settings approach to promote health and well-being. The authors advocate for prioritizing authentic, collaborative, and altruistic leadership to secure the systemic change necessary to sustain and promote the health of the planet and its citizens. The book examines systems-wide health promotion within post-secondary campuses, emphasizing higher education's role as an incubator to design and implement community-led processes and leadership strategies to enhance well-being. By engaging in knowledge mobilization practices that include the community and beyond, the book invites leaders, practitioners, and researchers to use these approaches to lead well-being efforts beyond the physical boundaries of their campuses.
Drawing on the collective knowledge of the authors in leading health promotion on campuses and beyond, Health Promoting Universities ultimately seeks to answer the question, How can higher education improve people's well-being, create healthy campus communities, and ensure a healthy planet?
Contents
Introduction: The Health Promotion Initiative
Chad London
1. Laying the Foundations for the Health Promoting Universities Movement
Matt Dolf and Mark Dooris
2. Collaborative Leadership and Its Role in Whole Systems Approaches
Vicki Squires, Chad London, and Olena Shakhova
3. What Gets Treasured, Gets Measured? Considering the Role of a Common Health and Wellbeing Assessment Tool for Canadian Post-Secondary Settings
Guy Faulkner, Caroline Wu, Kelly Wunderlich, and Michael Fang
4. Supporting Indigenous Peoples' Wellbeing on University Campuses
Heather J.A. Foulds and Leah J. Ferguson
5. Promoting Equity Diversity Inclusion (EDI) through Strategic Planning
Maha Kumaran and Suresh Kalagnanam
6. The Student Health Imperative: Elevating Student Health as a Prime Directive of Student Affairs
Ainsley Carry
7. Is That Our Responsibility? The Role of Academic Units in Campus Wellbeing
Chad London and Tanya Forneris
8. Promoting Food Security for Post-Secondary Students
Sara Kozicky, Min-Jung Kim, Vanessa Cunningham, Sam Laban, and Philip A. Loring
9. Advancing Workplace Wellbeing within Higher Education Settings
Crystal Hutchinson, Natasha Malloff, and Alicia Hibbert
10. Wellbeing by Design: Creating a University Built Environment to Advance Wellbeing and Sustainable Outcomes
Oliver Tacto
11. Considerations for Developing a Healthy Campus Model: Adoption, Formulation, Implementation, and Evaluation
Chad London and Vicki Squires
12. The Future of Health Promotion: Moving from Local and National to Global Wellbeing
Vicki Squires
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