Student Life Wellness and Wellbeing Index

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UMD Student Life recognizes that student wellbeing and student success go hand in hand. Our student wellbeing initiative supports our students holistically. We created a set of wellbeing dimensions, subdimensions, and facilitators and then mapped our work to each.

The Student Life Wellbeing and Wellness Index provides a way of tracking efforts that support the dimensions, subdimensions, and facilitators of student wellbeing. In this way, Student Life ensures that the work we do for and with students relates strongly to their wellbeing, development, and success. In addition, we are able to see changes over time and identify program and service gaps.

We got the idea from the Canadian Index of Wellbeing at the University of Waterloo.

Dimensions and Subdimensions

Student Life's dimensions and subdimensions of wellbeing and wellness are defined below. Indicators for each area are provided along with the abbreviations for departments that will provided data for each indicator. Data is entered for those items collected in a given year. Not every indicator is tracked every year, but over time data is collected on all indicators. A key for the abbreviations is found at the bottom of the page.

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MIND

Icon of a book, representing the Mind wellness dimension

This dimension encompasses the importance of our intellectual, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing.

  • Intellectual wellness embraces life-long learning by being intentional about what sparks our creativity and interest. Through intellectual wellness, we strive for an open mind to incorporate new concepts, information, and skills.
  • Emotional wellness is realizing our own capacity to affirm ourselves and cope with daily stressors through acknowledging thoughts and feelings and implementing strategies to manage our lives in a healthy way.
  • Spiritual wellness is a process of honoring the sacred within the natural world.  Through spiritual wellness, we seek to understand, challenge, and strengthen individual beliefs, values, rituals, and ethics that guide and give meaning to our lives.

Subdimensions Indicators 2021-2022 2022-2023
Intellect Number of completed career assessments (CC) 535 755
Number of student contacts with their Disability Specialist (DR) 1,895 3,127
Number of participants in tutoring and study session programs (ODI) Average: 8/week 240
Number of events in designated celebrations (Black History Month, Consent Week, Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Trafficking Awareness Month, Women’s History Month) (Division-wide) 128 61
Number of learning/living community participants (HRL) 160 107
Number of students participating in leadership training (division-wide) 270 595
Number of students participating in conflict resolution options (formal resolutions, Bulldog Engagement Network, notice and coaching, conflict mediation) (OSCCR) 156 134
Completion rate for the EVERFI modules: AlcoholEdu and Sexual Misconduct Prevention (VCSL office) AlcoholEdu - 81.1%, Sexual Misconduct Prevention - 84.4% AlcoholEdu - 78.0%, Sexual Misconduct Prevention - 80.8%
Number of students enrolled in SSP and UST courses (AWLC)
Emotion Number of students participating in individual counseling sessions (HS) 2,644 2,934
Number of students participating in Let’s Talk sessions (HS) 62 44
Number of caring interventions (HRL) 566 526
Number of students participating in conflict resolution options (formal resolutions, Bulldog Engagement Network, notice and coaching, conflict mediation) (OSCCR) 156 134
Number of student cases for the Student Care Team (VCSL office) 221 203
Spirit Number of religious or faith-based student organizations (KSC) 17 19
Number of students participating in conflict resolution options (formal resolutions, Bulldog Engagement Network, notice and coaching, conflict mediation) (OSCCR) 156 134

PURPOSE

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Purpose is applying one’s unique values, passions, and abilities to gain meaning and direction.

 

Indicators 2021-2022 2022-2023
Number of participants in the Alumni Mentor Program (AR) 102 87
New Handshake registrants (CC) 1,484 1,842
Career Center individual appointments (CC) 575 516
Number of check-ins with students on probation (OSCCR) 10 4
Number of participants in the CORE program (ODI) 420 1,067

BODY

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Physical well-being includes lifestyle and behavioral patterns which are maintained over the course of time and are tailored to meet an individual’s goals and needs.  These lifestyle and behavioral patterns help to ensure health, avoid preventable diseases and conditions, and to live in a balanced state of body, mind, and spirit.

Indicators 2021-2022 2022-2023
Number of dietary consultations and food tours (DS) (DS) 20 32
Number of students visiting Champ’s Cupboard and Champ's Closet (VCSL) 256 256
Number of student medical appointments (HS) 5,587 4921
Number of health education presentations (HS) 250 Health Ed Presentations, reaching 6, 699 attendees 100 outreach presentations reaching 3,467 attendees
Number of Recreation Center accesses (RSOP) 163,772 176,658

CONNECTEDNESS

Icon of a heart and hand, representing the Connectedness wellness dimension

This dimension encompasses the importance of our connectedness through community and culture.

  • Based on a common experience or purpose, community wellbeing involves the wellness of both the individuals and the larger group. Community wellbeing builds healthy and supportive networks to cultivate belonging and general connectedness with others in the community, which in turn leads to a willingness to act together in mutually beneficial ways. Contributing to community facilitates safe access to spaces, opportunities for us to participate as our authentic selves, and promotes a shared culture of wellness.
  • A culturally well person/individual is able to acknowledge their own culture, regardless of identity and experience, and the impacts their culture(s) have on others. Additionally, they are able to honor and celebrate the unique experiences that other backgrounds and identities bring to the community. Holistically, they are able to intertwine the experiences of self and others to positively contribute to the UMD community.

Subdimensions Indicators 2021-2022 2022-2023
Community Number of participants in the Alumni Relations Grad Party (AR) 221 193
Student experiences in dining on campus (DS) 44
Number of participants in new student orientation events (KSC, ODI, HRL) 2,150 (KSC), 27 (ODI), 1,971 (HRL) 2100 (KSC), 41 (ODI), 64 (RSOP)
Number of participants in peer mentoring programs (ODI) 10 18
Number of Community Connection Events (HRL) 832
Number of student organizations (KSC) 245 238
Number of students using collaboration spaces and group study rooms (KAML)
Sales of UMD spirit wear (UMD Stores) $1,812,922 (annually), $151,077 (monthly) $1,865,211 annually $155,434 per month
Culture Number of student participants in immersive diversity training (Transgender Justice Teach-in, Call to Action, LINC) (division-wide) 424 418
Number of students trained through the "Got Your Back, UMD!" bystander intervention program (HS) 35 65
Number of students employees participating in diversity, equity, and inclusion training programs (division-wide) 603 321
Number of Student Life student employees participating in diversity, equity, and inclusion training programs (division-wide) 96 95
Number of programs related to sexual assault prevention 20 25

ENVIRONMENT

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Environmental wellbeing is the way in which connection with our surroundings contributes to overall positive health, happiness and fulfillment. Making a deliberate effort to explore new environments with unknown variables in nature and in society helps a person develop new skills and learn from their successes and failures. With enhanced curiosity and courage to explore new environments the potential for lifelong learning, wellbeing and personal growth are infinite.

Indicators 2021-2022 2022-2023
Monitoring of waste on campus (DS, Sustainability)
Number of sustainability programs - (HRL) 52
Number of rides in the UPass program (TPS) 147,521 145,570
Number of Outdoor Program events offered (Outdoor activities, Climbing, Sea Kayaking, Kite/Surf/Stand-up Paddleboarding) (RSOP) 227 376
Total number of Outdoor Gear Rentals (RSOP) 6,542 6,395

ECONOMIC

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Economic wellbeing is defined as the state of having present and future financial security. It also includes the ability to make economic choices and feel a sense of security, satisfaction, and personal fulfillment with one's personal finances and employment pursuits. Economic wellbeing may be achieved through policies that ensure the ability to build financial knowledge and skills, access to safe and affordable products and economic resources, and opportunities for generating income and asset-building.

Indicators 2021-2022 2022-2023
Number of student employees in Student Life (OBP) 493 465
Number of students receiving scholarships awarded by Student Life units (division-wide) 108 99
Number of participants in job and internship fairs (CC) 850+ 1,752
Number of rides in the UPass program (TPS) 147,521 145,570
Number of Champ’s Cupboard and Champ's Closet users (VCSL) 256 256
Savings to students from textbook affordability initiatives (UMD Stores) $288,506 $375,369

Facilitators

Facilitators are foundational components that aid students in achieving and feeling a sense of wellness. The absence of these facilitators may prevent students from achieving and feeling a sense of wellness. Student Life's facilitators of wellbeing and wellness are defined below.

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Access and Opportunity

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Facilitators are the foundational components that aid students in achieving and feeling a sense of wellness. As a facilitator, access and opportunity provide:

  • Meaningful access to programs and services
  • Usability
  • Variety of delivery methods
  • Individually-defined achievements

Space and Resources

Icon of a house, representing the space and resources wellness facilitator

Facilitators are the foundational components that aid students in achieving and feeling a sense of wellness. As a facilitator, space and resources provide:

  • Physical space
  • Financial resources
  • Time
  • Mental Energy

Safety and Security

Icon of a heart within a shield, representing the safety and security wellness facilitator

Facilitators are the foundational components that aid students in achieving and feeling a sense of wellness. As a facilitator, space and resources provide:

  • A sense of feeling safe
  • A sense of stability
  • A sense of privacy of information

Helpful Information

Key to Abbreviations:

List of abbreviations used in the wellness indicators

Source for wellness icons: Dribbble