The residences are also places where students enact some of their most important health habits around diet, sleep, alcohol use, sexuality and coping with or managing stress. As such, they must be spaces that are well equipped to handle emergency issues and provide ongoing support and referrals on and off campus. The residences are the primary place where students’ challenges with health and wellbeing play out.
Some aspects of residential life, such as the processes through which housing is assigned, might unintentionally add to student stress or diminish the strength of their communities. Given the current circumstances and the rise in students’ stress and anxiety, this marks a critical moment for the University to design a residential system that actively promotes and advances the well-being of our students. Survey data on campus indicates that these areas of wellness deteriorate, rather than improve, over students’ time on campus. Thus, there is considerable reason for concern regarding our how we respond to our students’ health issues, stress, sadness, depression, alcohol and substance abuse, sleep (or lack thereof) and relationships. Students arrive at Stanford already having experienced high levels of stress and anxiety as highly competitive high school students. Health and wellbeing is not only the absence of illness, but the promotion, maintenance and flourishing of health indicators (Keys, 2007). This principle encompasses health in the broadest sense - including students’ emotional, social, physical, intellectual, behavioral and spiritual health. Special Interest: Co-op (UTH-SI: Co-op).Apply to be a University Theme House - Academic (UTH-A).Committee on Residential Learning (CoRL).Special Interest: Housed Fraternity & Sorority Life (UTH-SI: FSL) Criteria.Special Interest: Fraternities and Sororities.