Announcing the Healthy Campus Initiative

Campus Update

Chancellor Block announces a new campus-wide effort to embrace healthy choices in all aspects of our lives.

I am delighted to invite you to join me next week for a special event to launch UCLA’s Healthy Campus Initiative. Through this new campus-wide effort, we will call on students, staff and faculty to embrace healthy choices in all aspects of our lives. Our goal is to draw upon UCLA’s world-renowned research and teaching to find new and innovative ways to promote healthy living on our campus and to share that education and research with other communities, locally and beyond.

The Healthy Campus Launch Fair will take place from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Monday, January 28, in Collins Court at the John Wooden Center. The fair will feature interactive demonstrations, information on student-group projects funded by the initiative and more. Admission is free, and the event is open to the entire campus.

In addition, the Wooden Center will continue the celebration by providing free use of its recreation and fitness facilities to the entire campus from January 28 through February 1. It’s an ideal opportunity for anyone who needs an extra push to live up to their New Year’s resolutions or just wants to use the Healthy Campus Initiative as a starting point for building new, healthy habits.

The Healthy Campus Initiative is dedicated to making the healthy choice the easy choice wherever Bruins dine, study, work or play. Fortunately, we already have numerous strengths on which to build — cutting-edge research, well-established fitness programs, healthful dining options, plentiful green space and people who are already committed to healthy living. Our effort will foster new coordination between existing programs and encourage innovative new ones. As you also know, UCLA will become the first tobacco-free campus in the UC system this April — the perfect complement to this initiative.

I want to express deep appreciation to Jane and Terry Semel for their generous support of this initiative and for Jane’s leadership in making it possible.

You can learn more about the Healthy Campus Initiative in this news release. I look forward to seeing you on January 28 and to working with you to make good health a factor in all of our decisions.

  • Gene D. BlockChancellor