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Making UNH the Healthiest University by 2020: Healthy UNH |
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Nearly $40 million dollars. That’s what UNH spends each year on healthcare benefits for employees and their dependents. Employees are spending more of their own money on healthcare too. Yet spending so much guarantees so little - both in terms of healthy people and a healthy bottomline. While healthcare costs are rising for many reasons, actual health and quality of care are not. That’s why last year UNH President Mark Huddleston formed the Healthy UNH Action Committee - to bring real, sustainable solutions to this complex set of issues. A cross-campus team of faculty, staff and students, the committee has researched the big picture of wellness, illness, and cost trends at UNH - including an overview of programs and services already offered - and recently submitted recommendations to President Huddleston. “Healthy UNH’s vision is to make us the healthiest university community in the country by 2020,” explains College of Health and Human Services Dean Barbara Arrington, who co-chairs Healthy UNH with |
VP for Finance & Administration Dick Cannon. Healthy UNH’s values and objectives include:
Watch for more to come on Healthy UNH this fall! |
Did You Know?USNH spends more than $50 million dollars a year on healthcare. That’s $16,000 for a family policy - or $84 of every $100 of medical costs per employee. |
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This year’s University-wide Dialogue is “Taking Care of Self and Community: A University Dialogue on Health.” All academic year you can read essays on health by UNH faculty, attend speakers and events on campus, and be part of the conversation. Visit the Discovery Program website to learn more! |
September 5 Going Green With The WildCATS! UNH's first football game 12 PM start Cowell Stadium, UNH Durham Contact: UNH Athletics |
September 19 NH Fish and Lobster Festival: Celebrating 400 Years of Local Seafood 12:00 – 4:00 PM Prescott Park, Portsmouth, NH Contact: Prescott Park |
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September 23 Annual Local Harvet Feast (breakfast, lunch & dinner) UNH Durham dining halls Contact: UNH Dining or the University Office of Sustainability |
October 6 Student Sustainability Open Forum Open to all UNH students! 12:30 - 3:30 PM, MUB 338/340 Meet UOS Staff and members of student organizations and discuss sustainability on campus Contact: University Office of Sustainability |
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October 1 - November 1 Annual Student Energy Waste Watch Challenge Compete to save energy & emissions! Cool prizes for a cool climate! Contact: Ecological Advocates or the Energy Task Force |
September - December “Taking care of self and community: a university dialogue on health” Events throughout the semester Contact: UNH Discovery Program |
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Since 1997, the University Office of Sustainability -- the oldest endowed sustainability program in higher education in the U.S. -- has been transforming UNH into a Sustainable Learning Community: A land grant, sea grant, and space grant university that unites the spirit of discovery with the challenge of sustainability across its curriculum, operations, research and engagement (CORE) through four initiatives designed around four key systems that underpin our ability to define and pursue quality of life -- biodiversity, climate, food, and culture. Discover sustainability at UNH.UNH University Office of Sustainability 107 Nesmith Hall, 131 Main Street Durham, NH 03824 USA 603.862.4088 phone 603.862.0785 fax |
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Joyce Massicotte Graduate Student in Resource Administration & Management and former UOS staffer |
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How will your work at the University Office of Sustainability (UOS) relate to your new graduate studies in resource administration and management? At UOS, I have learned that communication and working together as a community are key components to mobilizing sustainability. I have also been exposed to the latest ideas, technology, projects, and policies out there that are trying to solve the bigger problems that threaten our sustainability. Pursuing a master's degree will allow me to learn more ways to motivate communities to use their natural resources responsibly and to research ways to utilize our resources more effectively. What is "Go Green with the Wildcats"? The first football game of the year on September 5th will be a green event to set recycling and sustainability more broadly as standards that will hopefully carry on throughout the year at all athletic events. Wildcat Corporate Partners will have tables around the stadium displaying their environmentally-friendly products and services. Volunteers will be there to remind fans to recycle. It is great that UNH Athletics is giving fans ways to lessen their environmental footprints. What motivates you personally to be involved in sustainability? What could be more rewarding than working to sustain all life here on our one planet? |
I believe that we can evolve to live in balance with our surroundings and each other. My involvement in sustainability can best be summed up in a quote from Tracy Kidder's book Mountains Beyond Mountains (2004, 79): "How could a just God permit great misery? The Haitian peasants answered with a proverb:...’God gives but doesn't share.’ This meant...God gives us humans everything we need to flourish, but he's not the one who's supposed to divvy up the loot. That charge was laid upon us.’" Learn more about "Go Green with the Wildcats" on Sept 5th! -------------------------------- Direct Deposits Go Paperless!Starting this September, pay stubs are going paperless! USNH employees will receive an email message whenever they are paid via direct deposit instead of the paper notice they currently receive. Employees will also be able to access their pay stubs at https:\\wise.unh.edu. USNH estimates going paperless will save the system and its campuses 200,000 sheets of paper, the same number of envelops, and over $32,000 in paper, toner cartridge, and postage costs every year! Going paperless will also prevent the greenhouse gas emissions associated with delivering paper pay stubs. Kudos to the USNH Payroll Office and Computing & Information Services! |
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