PLATTSBURGH — SUNY Plattsburgh’s new coordinator for wellness and health promotion wants to take a wholistic approach to student, faculty and staff wellbeing.
Sarah Erno, who joined the staff in Student Engagement and Leadership at the university in August, said her role is to take a comprehensive approach to wellness and health that focuses on the Eight Dimensions of Wellness, a framework for understanding and pursuing wellness developed in the 1990s by Dr. Peggy Swarbrick.
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