• These establishments can earn a bronze, silver or gold wellness standing — with gold being the very best achievement stage.
• The rankings are primarily based on how every faculty promotes bodily exercise on campus, via measures like making campuses walkable, introducing health-focused programming and connecting college students with well being health specialists.

The way it was earned: JCCC earned the excellence after implementing its Pupil Wellness program, which the faculty launched in 2015.

• By JCCC’s Pupil Wellness program, college students have complimentary entry to the varsity’s Barbara Gill Lifetime Health Heart, in addition to sources like private coaching, health assessments and group health courses.

Greater image: JCCC is considered one of 158 campuses throughout the nation to achieve recognition from this system this yr — together with Kansas Metropolis’s Rockhurst College, which earned silver-level designation.

• It’s additionally considered one of three group schools throughout the nation to earn gold-level wellness standing.
• JCCC and its fellow recipients acquired official recognition for the achievement at this yr’s Train is Medication World Congress occasion — which served as a part of the American Faculty of Sports activities Medication’s assembly this yr.
• This comes as the newest in a variety of methods JCCC has been acknowledged for athletics and bodily exercise this yr — together with All-American rankings for 2 of the JCCC ladies’s basketball group’s gamers earlier this spring.

Key quote: “This can be a very distinguished honor for our Pupil Wellness program, our Well being and Wellness Division and for JCCC,” mentioned Lori Mallory, director of well being and wellness at JCCC. “Dr. Tina Pulley, Adjunct School, Well being & Wellness, has been instrumental in rising our scholar wellness on campus and bringing consideration to the significance of a scholar’s psychological and bodily well-being. The Faculty has been very proactive in providing these companies to college students as a part of their complete schooling at JCCC.”