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.

Dishes of strawberries at ‘Food of the Original People’ in Morrison Dining

‘Food of the Original People’ returns

Annual event explores the rich culinary and cultural traditions of Indigenous peoples.

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.

About the Okanagan Charter

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

Maia Tsignadze and family dye spring eggs

Residential life supports a health promoting campus

Maia talks about how Hasbrouck’s welcoming community has enhanced her family’s Cornell experience.

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.