About Healthy Hawks

Healthy Hawks is a holistic approach to daily life that acknowledges the integration of many facets that contribute to an individual’s experience of self, others and the world.

The Healthy Hawks community provides opportunities for learning and engagement, focused on the eight dimensions of well-being:

• Emotional
• Engagement
• Intellectual
• Financial
• Occupational
• Physical
• Spiritual
• Sustainability

Students who pledge to Be a Healthy Hawk will strive to learn and engage in all aspects of well-being during their time here at UNCW, instilling life-long holistic well-being.

Questions about Healthy Hawks? Please contact us!

The Division of Student Affairs at UNCW will:

• Create a Healthy Hawks community by providing students with opportunities for learning and engagement focusing on the eight dimensions of well-being.
• Provide resources, programs and education to the UNCW student community about the importance of understanding their own individual well-being, and how to maintain an optimal level of well-being during and after college.
• Educate students on the Healthy Hawks philosophy that life-long well-being is an active process of becoming aware of and making positive choices towards a balanced and fulfilling existence where the mind, body and spirit are respected and nurtured.

Delve into these health-centric programs:

• Rock the Rec
• Health Fair
• Well-being Wednesdays
• HawkTalk 101
• Relaxation Station
• Hawk Hope Day
• Meditation
• National Nutrition Month programs
• National Eating Disorder Awareness Week programs
• Safe Spring Break programs
• Hydration Station
• Sun Safety
• Waves of Wellness

Check out our current Healthy Hawks programs