GOAL 1 – Educate University community concerning Nutrition and Wellness issues

A. Continue to promote academic and community offerings for nutrition/fitness/wellness.

• Identify liaisons in all colleges and units to serve as Nutrition and Wellness contacts to help get messages out.
• Utilize ENews, Spirit, DA, MIX and Nutrition and Wellness website to disseminate information concerning nutrition and wellness programs
• Form a wellness advisory board comprised of a representative sample of students
• Do student health risk and needs assessments as part of University 101
• Provide an extensive Lifetime Activity Program through the School of Physical Education

B. Identify and promote coordinated health fairs on campus ? contact all potential health fair providers so Nutrition and Wellness committee can assist in promoting events.

C. Help colleges and units become designated as ?well workplaces? under the criteria used by the Wellness Council of America (WELCOA). Long term goal of entire University be designated.

D. Offer comprehensive array of wellness and nutrition programs to students, faculty and staff.

• Offer free weekly ?Ask the Expert? service with experts in fields of: Exercise and Injury; Student Health Services/General Health; Nutrition, Stress Management and Peak Performance.
• Establish an online ?Ask the Expert? for each of the above mentioned areas.
• Offer a minimum of three lectures per semester on wellness related topics (i.e. stress management, fitness, nutrition, general health).

GOAL 2 – Offer, Promote and Support Physical Activity

A. Encourage walking among University employees.

• Promote a campus wide ?Walk 15 for Better Health? campaign to encourage employees to take their morning and afternoon 15 minute breaks to actively engage in physical activity challenges.
• Use signs around stairways, post tips and encouraging messages on ENews, Spirit, DA, MIX and Nutrition and Wellness website to promote walking.
• Support existing and new walking programs among employees: Walk 100 Miles in 100 Days, The Holiday Walking Program and The Spring Walking Program.

B. Make stairways more attractive; promote usage of stairways in all buildings with signage and ?Adopt a Stairwell? program.

• Select campus buildings with elevators and post ?use the stairways.?
• Make the stairways in the residence halls more attractive with pictures and nutrition/wellness information.

C. Offer a variety of physical activity programs and classes to meet the needs of the student population.

• Offer a wide variety of group exercise classes and programs (Weight Watchers, Mission Possible, Step, Spinning, Yoga, etc.).
• Provide student workers trained in exercise prescription during peak usage times to assist with equipment usage and training programs.
• Hold a ?largest ever? group exercise event at least once per year.
• Support existing and new walking programs among students: Walk 100 Miles in 100 Days, the Holiday Walking Program and the Spring Walking Program.
• Offer a wide variety of credit activity courses through the School of Physical Education and courses in Human Nutrition and Foods and Community Medicine.
• Encourage students to participate in a fitness orientation program.

GOAL 3 – Promote and Support Use of Non-Motorized Transport

A. Incorporate proper driver and pedestrian safety principles into University 101 ? work with First-Year Experience office to coordinate this experience.

B. Encourage the development of safe and attractive pedestrian and bicyclist links between downtown, Evansdale and Health Sciences campuses.

C. Support the development of safer streets, sidewalks and pathways for walking and biking.

• Communicate through campus leaders the value of a walkable/bikeable campus that reduces the distance a student, staff or faculty member must travel between essential functions.
• Give pedestrians and bicyclists the same considerations as motorized vehicles when planning, designing, operating and maintaining existing and planned campus infrastructure.
• Place signage ?Share the Road with Bicyclist? along roadways on campus.
• Send support letter from Nutrition and Wellness Committee to encourage the City of Morgantown to provide for safe street crossings.
• Suggest a pedestrian/bicycle coordinator to the Public Safety and Transportation Services staff whose recommendations would extend to downtown, Evansdale and Health Sciences campuses.
• Support the ?Recommendations for a Pedestrian Friendly Campus? report prepared for the Health Sciences Center.
• Communicate to PRT personnel the need to promote the PRT as a more integral part of the community?s transportation system through signage and extended hours.
• Support and encourage efforts such as Student Government Association promoted grant for sidewalks on Willowdale.

D. Identify and implement methods to reduce the number of vehicles on campus and support as appropriate.

GOAL 4 – Promote and Offer Healthy Nutrition

A. Offer and promote healthy food options in Residence Halls and across campus

B. Encourage WVU departments to hold Nutrition and Wellness ?Lunch and Learns.?

C. Coordinate a ?Buddy System? for healthy eating

D. Establish an on-line ?Ask the Expert? via e-mail about healthy eating

E. Offer additional nutrition classes for non-majors

GOAL 5 – Establish a Communications/Marketing Plan for the Nutrition and Wellness Initiative

A. News & Information Services (N&IS) and the Health Sciences Communications Office should develop a coordinated plan to communicate activities and services that promote wellness, fitness and nutrition among faculty, staff and students.

B. Solicit input from key communicators (or wellness liaisons) in colleges, school and units about health and wellness activities.

C. Utilize in-house communication vehicles such as the main WVU website, the Fitness First website, the WVU Intranet, E-News, the Mountaineer Spirit faculty-staff newspaper; online master calendar; WVU Minute; Inside WVU radio spots; and Mountaineer Information Xpress (MIX) ? to communicate announcements, feature stories and schedules of events dealing with health fairs, walking campaigns and wellness conferences/speakers; health tips/ columns; health-related awards and honors; programs related to living a healthier lifestyle; etc.

D. Distribute same information to the campus radio station, U92, and the student newspaper, The Daily Athenaeum, as well as appropriate area media.

E. Utilize other marketing tools such as posters, flyers, ads, public service announcements to promote health and wellness activities, speakers, etc.

F. Brand all messages with the WVU Nutrition and Wellness Initiative logo.

G. Encourage campus leaders/president to include wellness issues in major speeches/talks to University community and others.

H. Collaborate with the Chamber?s Vision 2020 Committee to communicate campus/community efforts such as a possible walking/biking path, co-sponsored walks and runs, etc.

I. Measure hits to wellness web site and number of news clips and other earned media dealing with health and nutrition issues.