#349
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 22:39:20 -0700
From: William Cissell <cissellguill@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Response to Sarah Mart's Message about Influencing the Broader Societal Influences on Student Health and Wellness
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Sarah is right about the value of promoting health and wellness of students through influencing the soical environment that impacts students' value systems and behaviors.
Over my lifetime and career, there have been some classic examples of how this works.
As a child and teenager, I had the perception that at least 90% of adult, white males in the good ol' USA were smokers. My perceptions were influenced by my maternal grandfather, who operated a country tavern and owned a tobacco farm. It was also influenced by my fraternal grandfather, father and uncles, who were all tobacco farmers or sharecrppers on tobacco farms. Actually, prior to the 1964 release of the Surgon General's Report on Smoking and Health, approximately 60% of adult, white men smoked. Today, 25% or less of adult, white males smoke.
I carried my perception of the commonality of male smoking behavior and the manner in which they seemed to have broad societal support for their smoking behavior into college. There I found ashtrays in the library, where, as a student janitor, I had to clean the dispicable things, restrooms, recreational centers, hospitals, restaurants, and faculty lounges of the buildings in which health education courses were taught. Today, many, possibly most, univeristy campuses are smokefree. In Illinois, all government buildings, including prisons, are smokefree facilities.
Tobacco consumption, particularly smoking of tobacco, represents a classic example of how promoters of health and wellness and our allies have impacted social policies and enforcement of these policies in our country to benefit the health and wellness f all, including university students. Otehr classic examples of doing so include seatbelt safety , child safty restraints, engineering safer motor vehicles, and air quality standards. Health educators and our allies have succeeded in very demonstrable ways over the past 50 or 60 years, let's keep up the good work!
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#350
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 06:46:40 -0400
From: Marco Meneses <marcomeneses@MSN.COM>
Subject: Community Health Education Group
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Please join us to network, share and publish:
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#351
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 04:11:00 -0700
From: Lori McCool <lorimccool69@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: American Journal of Health Studies, Paid Advertisement
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Continuing Education Credits, American Journal of Health Studies
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Please visit our website at www.va-ajhs.com. On this website, you will find a subscription form, an order form of back issues, as well as a listing of back issues for your perusal.
We look forward to providing you with an online Journal starting with Journal 23, which will be out soon. This will assist you with efficiency in completing continuing education credits and limit lengthy mail time.
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#352
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 07:51:47 -0700
From: Mark Fulop <markfulop@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: Personal Wellness Requirement
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----- Original Message ----
From: Sarah M Mart
For what purpose college health? 100% of students take a personal wellness class to learn how to deal, cope, and make it through a college experience, or a life experience, or the world? When in fact what needs to change as well as their individual behavior is the environment that surrounds and impacts them--not just to help them, but their colleagues and community members?
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Sarah,
Thanks for posting, I got a lot out of your perspective. Long ago and far away, I worked in college health and yes, many campuses are prone to oversimplify complex problems. We can dutifully require all students to take a "wellness class" but, of course, that only works until the gang rape or alcohol overdose or worse yet handgun violence happens on "our campus." Then as you say, the institutional weaknesses, become apparent.
I have another thought. One of the biggest hazards of the social norming "theory" has been creating the mythology that campuses are a homogeneous population. If that were true, then the concept of "hosing down all of the students" with the same personal wellness course would have some face value. However the community of a college campus is complex. In my time in college health I encountered a homeless student combining sleeping in parks, his car and bumming space on friends couches; a student who was convinced that prostitution was the only way she could get through college,a trans-gender student who lived in fear of being discovered by roommates, a student trying to escape domestic violence. Moving beyond thecircle of the "norm" is the circle of "people in crisis" and moving beyond that, we begin to see the campus in diversity. We need to recognize that students of privilege living in frat houses are not the same as the struggling single mom
who commutes 90 minutes a day by public transportation. My point it that if we see the diversity and complexity of a campus population then the notion of a "one-size fits all" wellness 101 requirement collapses.
I will always argue for infrastructure over parochial didactics every time.
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#353
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 12:00:52 -0400
From: KDG Consulting <kdgconsulting@VERIZON.NET>
Subject: Personal Wellness Course Threatened: Support Emails Needed
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Greetings, colleagues - this is such a fortuitously timed exchange - and perhaps you can help me and my college rally forces and ideas and information to save our personnel wellness course!
Kingsborough Community College's curriculum committee has received a recommendation from the General Education Committee - in spite of our avid defense (for which we didn't have all this ammunition, but now that we have, we'll use it) to drop our required 3 credit Foundations of Health and Wellness course that's been around for decades, and either eliminate it as a college requirement all together or drop it to a 1 credit required course.
There are many reasons - need credits for a required math course, desire to eliminate credits that don't contribute toward major or graduation requirement (since in our school the course isn't considered Gen Ed or Liberal Arts because it has the word "health" in it - NYS law).
We did an impromptu pre-test this year using a proposed final exam of 32 multiple choice questions on what we consider basic information and the average score was 32/100 - a revealing enough stat, in my mind.
If any of you would feel comfortable sending letters of support for our having and fighting to retain our course and/or providing helpful information and strategies to our department, I would be most grateful.
Please make sure your email to us includes your name, title, and affiliation. That would help so much.
I will be culling information from these recent exchanges to present to my chair in the coming week. I would be most grateful for any help you can offer us. You can just hit reply and respond to me and I'll get the information to my chairperson, or you can write directly to Dr. Scherek at sscherek@kbcc.cuny.edu.
Thank you so much!
KDG
Karen Denard Goldman, PhD, CHES, SPHR
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#354
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 13:55:18 -0400
From: Becky Smith <BSmith@AAHPERD.ORG>
Subject: Fort Worth Conference transportation
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Yesterday Michaela Conley posted a note on HEDIR regarding shuttle
service for the AAHE/AAHPERD conference in Fort Worth - reasonable rates
can be obtained for many locations by contacting one of these services.
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#355
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 11:12:07 -0700
From: Billie Lindsey <billie.lindsey@WWU.EDU>
Subject: Fwd: Personal Wellness course; now new General Ed Public Health course
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> Dear Tom, Mark and HEDIR colleagues,
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> Your question comes at an opportune time for me to share, for those =20=
> who aren=92t aware, the move to encourage universities to offer =20
> =93public health=94 general education courses, specifically, to begin =20=
> with, =93public health 101, global health 101, and epidemiology 101,=94 =
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> and to train faculty who do not have background in those areas to =20
> teach the courses. (The first training occurred last summer in =20
> Washington, D.C.) There is also encouragement to develop =20
> undergraduate minors and perhaps majors, independent of schools of =20
> public health.
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> This movement started about 3 years or so ago through the =20
> Association for Prevention Teaching and Research (APTR) who =20
> partnered with the Association of American Colleges and Universities =20=
> (AAC & U) and the Council of Colleges of Arts and Science (CCAS), =20
> with support form Schools of Public Health and the CDC.
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> The rationale was based on The National Academy of Sciences =20
> Institute of Medicine and the Consensus Conference on Undergraduate =20=
> Public Health Education recommendation that all colleges and =20
> universities offer introductory undergraduate public health =20
> education courses. =93APTR has created www.TeachPublicHealth.org as =20=
> the online home for undergraduate public health education. This =20
> website is devoted to providing resources and curricular materials =20
> to teach introductory college level courses in public health.=94 (If =20=
> you are interested, there are sample syllabi, case studies, etc. for =20=
> the three previously mentioned courses.)
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> I have found it interesting that this initiative has taken place =20
> primarily without consultation with, or input from, SOPHE or AAHE =20
> and without an acknowledgment of the existing role of community =20
> health undergraduate programs.
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> Billie J. Lindsey, EdD, CHES
> Associate Professor & Program Chair
> Community Health
> Western Washington University
> Bellingham, Washington 98225-9067
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#356
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 15:58:35 -0600
From: Judy Drolet <jdrolet@SIU.EDU>
Subject: Small update on memorials
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Since several people have contacted me, thought a brief update is in order.
Our faculty will be discussing at our next faculty meeting later in April
(post-AAHE) appropriate options for tributes / memorials to Elena M.
Sliepcevich and Bill Carlyon.
We will keep everyone informed about the outcomes of that discussion. Thank
you for your continued interest and kind thoughts.
Judy C. Drolet, PhD, CHES, FASHA, FAAHE
Professor of Health Education
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
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