ACHA’s Healthy Campus empowers campus communities to improve health and well-being.
It is the process of helping campus communities:
- Build the foundation of a healthy campus by investing in the infrastructure necessary to advance health and well-being on campus.
- Become the cornerstone of the campus by striving toward health equity and eliminating health disparities.
- Support a community that increases academic success, student and faculty/staff retention, and life-long learning.
- Create a culture where social and physical environments promote health.
Core Elements of ACHA's Healthy Campus
- Every campus can be a healthy campus.
- Institutions of higher education are communities.
- Healthy Campus is a continuum and every campus can find their place.
- Healthy Campus efforts should be informed by data: see ACHA's Survey Data.
- Healthy Campus efforts should engage campus community members with expertise in college health and well-being.
- If college health and wellness expertise isn’t available on your campus, ACHA can help: College Health Wellness Consulting.
The Healthy Campus Framework
ACHA’s Healthy Campus framework gives colleges and universities a way to cultivate a campus culture where well-being isn't just another campus initiative—it's the foundation of student success, and it is embedded into the campus culture.
Assess Your Campus
Is your campus a Healthy Campus? Find out with our Institutional Inventory for ACHA members!
Frequently Asked Questions
Get answers to some commonly asked questions about the Healthy Campus Framework and Institutional Inventory.
What Our Members Say
"The Healthy Campus Framework was a great tool to use as an environmental scan for well-being on our campus. The Healthy Campus Inventory allowed us to see where we are doing well and where we could make improvements.
Because of the scan, we were able to develop a well-being action plan to tackle the areas where we wanted to see change. Ultimately, I believe participating in this process will allow us to improve the culture of well-being on our campus."
Coulson Thomas
Director, Recreation and Wellness
Old Dominion University
"We were looking for a framework for all of the holistic wellness initiatives we were doing but didn't know where to start.
The inventory is a great tool that helped us assess our institution's baseline so that we could focus on our strengths and on areas that needed improvement. We have used the data on several occasions to inform upper administration on where we are thriving and where we need support. We are looking forward to submitting it again to see where we've made improvements."
John Rigney
Assistant Director for Wellness & Outreach
Nazareth University
“It's nice to finally have a tool to start assessing our systems-level efforts for wellbeing on campus. Even though this tool is very new, and we will look at some others, it provided a great starting point for assessment and discussions around our systems and infrastructure efforts for wellbeing work at UCI.
After adopting the Okanagan Charter in 2021, this was an important step for us to move beyond our human bio-behavioral measures and metrics, and data.”
Doug Everhart
Director, Student Wellness & Health Promotion
University of California-Irvine
Join the Healthy Campus Community in ACHA Connect
Engage with others and see how they are implementing Healthy Campus at their institution! Visit the Healthy Campus community in ACHA Connect, ask questions, and connect with like-minded peers.
Leadership & History
Learn about the leadership team and history of this project.
