Long time, no blog :(
My latest venture at the College of Charleston is to provide our faculty and staff with a weekly series of fitness classes/opportunities. I surveyed our faculty last week to gauge interest and the response has been an exciting, resounding: YES PLEASE!
I'm personally thrilled to be putting together this program. First of all, I have no idea how our faculty members find time to eat, let alone to work-out. They have their own lives (spouses, kids, households), as well as hundreds of students to keep track of AND lesson-plans to make, etc etc. How can we expect our professors to have time to be healthy if they barely have time to breath and not a large enough salary to hire a personal trainer?
Currently, there is a huge push to promote active lifestyles and lower student obesity rates in the state of SC (and nationally, as well). Given this 'wellness' perspective being incorporated in the education system, i'm surprised that CofC has not made an effort to extend this fitness courtesy to their faculty and staff. I understand that budget cuts and the current state of the economy are forcing the SC higher education system to neglect certain aspects but we need to take care of our teachers.
More on this later...
Wish me luck!
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