Annual Report: 2024 - 2025 Academic Year
The 2024-2025 academic year marked Kansas State University's early development as a Health Promoting University. Guided by the Next-Gen K-State Strategic Plan, the work focuses on building awareness, elevating and unifying current strengths and identifying initial opportunities to embed health and well-being into the fabric of the university. The work specifically calls on K-State to move beyond a focus on individual programs and services to a whole campus approach that creates systemic change utilizing upstream approaches.
| Elevating health and well-being as a university priority serves as a catalyst for meaningful discussion, strategies and action. |
Work Groups
Supported by a university committee of wide representation and leadership, several work groups were established and focused on the initial priorities:
- Physical Activity
- Social Connection
- Financial Well-being
- University Engagement
Opportunities
Additional opportunities identified for health promotion efforts included:
- Wildcat Pause Day
- Process and Policy Exploration
- Partnership with Flint Hills Food Recovery
- Interdisciplinary Stress and Resiliency with K-State Extension
8,150+ stakeholders engaged
Cross-campus collaborations
17+ well-being events
Campus-wide engagement and partnership
- Over 8,150 members of the university community participated in dialogue, assessment, discussions on pressing issues, and establishing priorities.
- Presentations given to university stakeholders ranged from the Kansas Board of Regents, university and college leadership, divisional retreats/meetings, faculty senate and student government, and student associations and living groups, both on campus and affiliated with K-State.
Cross-campus partnerships
- College of Health and Human Sciences
- Staley School of Leadership
- Office of Community Engagement
- Office of the Provost
- Division of Communication and Marketing
- Division of Academic Success and Student Affairs
- Student Governing Association