Cornell University

Health Promoting Campus

Cornell University's commitment: People. Places. Planet.

Health Promoting Campus

As a Health Promoting Campus, our vision is to create and sustain a diverse, welcoming, and inclusive culture in which students, staff, and faculty can flourish. This culture is supportive of holistic individual, social, and ecological wellbeing. Read more about Cornell's Wellbeing Vision and Mission.

Quinn Rinkus sitting in stands by pool

Managing well-being and competing priorities

Cornell student-athlete Quinn Rinkus '26 shares her experiences and how she manages her well-being and competing priorities with a positive mindset.

Students discuss finding connection on campus.

Finding connection on campus

Students share what is was like when they first arrived at Cornell and how they went about finding connection and building community.

Interim President Kotlikoff talks about the Okanagan Charter

About the Okanagan Charter

Interim President Kotlikoff and other university leaders discuss what signing the Okanagan Charter means for Cornell. 

Summer Adventures: Man jumping into water.

Summer Wellbeing Adventure banners are up across campus.

Winning photos have been selected and are being showcased on banners hanging from light posts across the Ithaca campus! Check out the slideshow to see the grand prize winners.

From Policy to Practice: Rethinking Campus Wellbeing

Meet AVP of Student and Campus Life for Student Health and Wellbeing, Julie Edwards, for a conversation about prioritizing a health-promoting campus on the Inclusive Excellence Podcast.

 

 

Discarded silk yarn can clean up polluted waterways

Discarded silk yarn can clean up polluted waterways

A research team in the Cornell's College of Human Ecology has developed an elegant and sustainable way to clean up waterways: reusing one waste product to remove another.