The " Good News " is that college students are pretty healthy overall and NIU students are no exception. In fact, in a recent survey of college students nationally, nearly 60% of those surveyed rated their health status as excellent or very good.¹ Many health promoting behaviors are practiced regularly by NIU students who rate their health higher than the national average with nearly 64% reporting health as excellent or very good.²
Of course, there are things all of us can do to improve our health. The staff at Health Enhancement invites you to use this resource for your personal and academic benefit. Here you will find an ever-growing collection of health and wellness information and some tips to help make sense of all of the “health stuff” that can be found on the Web these days. Please explore and let us know if there is anything we can add to the site to make your NIU experience more successful.
¹ National College Health Assessment Executive Summary, 2005, n=54,111
² NIU National College Health Assessment, 2002, n=631