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Creating and Sustaining Wellness Cultures for Faculty, Staff, and Students to Thrive

Higher Education Today

Recent studies have shown a clear link between workplace culture and well-being. Culture shapes how we feel emotionally, and it even influences whether we consistently engage in healthy lifestyle behaviors. While changing a culture takes time and effort, the benefits for everyone’s well-being make it worthwhile.

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Alumni Spotlight: Katie’s Spring Semester Abroad in Florence

AIFS Abroad

The program’s included field trips, meal plan, and course selection all immersed me into the true Italian culture. Lifestyles are so different across the state, across the world, across the country. A: I think the European lifestyle in general is very different from the American. ’ You will thank yourself later!

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Living to Work or Working to Live: The Spanish Lifestyle Explained

ISA Journal

In a world where time is money, cultures around the globe seem to differ greatly in their approach to daily life. Nowhere has this been more apparent to me than in the stark contrast between the slow-paced Spanish lifestyle and the hustle-driven American culture.

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Study: Number of Universities Requiring Physical Education Courses Decreasing

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

schools, establishing a definition of PE as an activity or academic course pertaining to health, wellness, sports, or physical activity, including “conceptual” PE courses emphasizing health behavior strategies for lifelong physical activity lifestyles. Alexandra Szarabajko, chair of exercise science at Columbia College – examined 331 U.S.

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How intentional building design helps these colleges build community synergy

University Business

As campuses tend to stand as hubs of culture and scientific inquiry for the broader community, one way to build confidence and interaction with the community is through intentional building design. “If you’re going to do this, it’s a way of thinking, speaking and being.”

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Community Colleges Build Workforce Through Partnership and Student Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Employers are leaning in and learning about our students and their lifestyles. This is important, said Colbert, as there are over 500 distinct languages and cultural experiences among the tribal nations of the U.S. “In CSCC has shared these lessons, along with student data, with employers. And they are listening, Harrison said.

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Student Spotlight: Peyton’s Spring Semester Abroad in Salamanca, Spain

AIFS Abroad

As I met more of my classmates, I came to the realization that everyone is here to learn and experience the culture. Peyton breaks down how her Anthropology major and its concept of cultural relativism — learning and understanding a culture without judgement — has impacted how she puts her academic knowledge into practice.