Five Things Practitioners Should Know about Student Well-being
Wellness? Well-being? What is this work, who is responsible, and why is it so important? This session will give context to these terms and the work they encompass, discuss how every unit on campus can contribute to holistic well-being, and give an overview of what the profession is doing well to support students and where there are areas of opportunity. We will end with guidance on how student affairs professionals can find colleagues to partner with in well-being and how to continually motivate the work on campus via assessment.
Learning Outcomes
1. Articulate terms like wellness and well-being
2. Demonstrate how to build a coalition for well-being work on campus
3. Apply assessment as guidance and motivation for impactful well-being initiatives.
Bridget Yuhas
Director | Student Affairs Assessment & Strategy Executive Director | Institute for Well-being
Butler University
Dr. Bridget Yuhas has 20 years of experience in higher education, including five years at the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE). She has presented original research on student well-being at NASPA Strategies, NASPA Annual Conference, ACHA Annual Conference, Qualtrics X4 Summit, Assessment Institute, NIRSA Annual Conference, First-Year Experience Conference, and NIRSA’s Summer of Learning; and has partnered with the National Wellness Institute to study professional well-being practitioner competencies both within and outside of higher education. Dr. Yuhas developed and leads the Student Well-being Institutional Support Survey (SWISS) and serves as the Executive Director for Student Affairs at Butler University.
Continuing Education Credits
CSAED
This session counts for 1.0 CSAEd-CORE credit
NASPA has been approved by the Higher Education Consortium for Student Affairs Certification to provide CE credit for Certified Student Affairs Educators (CSAEd). NASPA is solely responsible for all aspects of this program.
Guidelines for earning CE credit:
No partial credit will be rewarded.
Participants must also complete the feedback survey in the Online Learning Community.
1 Credit is available for attending the live session or viewing the on-demand recording.
To receive CSAEd credit, attendees must complete the feedback survey that offers the certification in each session. Once you have attended all the live sessions or watched the on-demand sessions for which you would like to request credit, visit the Continuing Education (CE) website to fill out the Student Affairs Education Certification Request Form for all the sessions. All certificants must fill out one for the live session and a separate one for the on-demand sessions. Visit the Continued Education (CE) website to learn more regarding deadlines and receive your certificate of completion for the Virtual Conference.
NBCC
This session counts for 1 NBCC credit
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Participants can receive a maximum of 13 clock hours for attending live sessions at this event. All eligible sessions are identified in the “Credit Information” tab at the top of the individual sessions. To receive credit, please complete the “Feedback Survey” found within each individual session under the “Continuing Education” section. Once the feedback surveys for all attended sessions are complete, complete this request form; a certificate documenting the number of hours of live sessions you attended will be emailed to you within two weeks of you submitting the form.
The deadline to request NBCC continuing education certificates for this event is May 12, 2025. For questions regarding continuing education, please email continuingeducation@naspa.org
