First-year workshops promote health and wellness

For many students, balancing academics and other responsibilities is their top stressor and what they believe to be the driver of the collegiate mental health crisis, according to a recent Student Voice survey by Inside Higher Ed and the Generation Lab. To ease student anxieties and stressors in the transition to college, Champlain College in Vermont developed a first-year program that facilitates peer connection, successful habit building and proactive resource connection. Champ 101, first launched in fall 2022, has proven successful in promoting healthy living and wellness among students, prompting campus leaders to integrate the program as part of a required wellness curriculum.