When listing the struggles facing college students, people tend to think of homesickness or studying stress—many never consider hunger.
Food Pantry seeks to solve student hunger problem
Unit: Health Promotion and Wellness
Enriching your vocational wellness
We spend the majority of the week at work, and for some, it can spill out beyond the forty-hour obligation.
Creating a different sexual culture
The sexual choices made today can impact you for a lifetime as well as someone else’s. With this in mind, the following suggestions can help you be part of a cultural change toward supporting a healthier sexual climate.
The landscape of casual sex
Hookups, or casual sexual encounters, have been happening for decades on college campuses. However, has something changed over the course of time?
Help us help you: Complete health survey and earn a free drink!
Students will receive an invitation to take part in the National College Health Assessment in their ISU email in mid-February. Information collected from this important survey helps identify health and wellness priorities that drive resources and services for Illinois State University students.
Promoting physical activity as a vital sign of health in campus community
Helping individuals become physically active is the goal of Illinois State University’s Exercise Is Medicine On Campus (EIMOC) program, a referral-based system linking Student Health Services (SHS), Student Counseling Services (SCS), Health Promotion and Wellness (HPW), Campus Recreation (CR), and the School of Kinesiology and Recreation (KNR).
DASH your way to heart health
Just like any muscle, the heart can be strong, weak, or overworked under certain circumstances. If a disease or injury weakens or overworks your heart, you will not move blood throughout the body very efficiently.
Growing relational emotional wellness
Emotions have the power to influence the landscape of daily life from an individual and relational perspective.
Stalking: Know it. Name it. Stop it.
January 2019 marks the fifteenth anniversary of National Stalking Awareness Month.
Getting physical throughout your day
Gym memberships have grown over almost two decades from 32.8 million in 2001 to 60.87 million in 2017. This is an encouraging statistic from the perspective of more individuals choosing to invest in their physical activity. However, making your way to a gym or any form of deliberate exercise can have its barriers, such as
