The wellness program, developed by the Department of Exercise and Sport Sciences, is a service run by students to benefit faculty and staff. The students are motivated to teach others, and the participants really look to them for help. When IC employees join the wellness program, they are given a complete health and fitness screening that includes a health history review, flexibility and strength assessments, body composition evaluation, pulmonary function and exercise capacity tests, an at-rest electrocardiogram reading, and a nutritional evaluation.
Participants then sit down with a fitness specialist and go over the results of their tests.
Participants are also steered toward learning opportunities via bulletin boards, lectures, videos, newsletters, and the Internet. I joined because my doctor recommended it, but I stayed because of what it is doing for me. The students who work here are, without a doubt, some of the finest students on campus. Students, primarily from the fitness and cardiac rehabilitation major, are involved in all aspects of the wellness program through classes, internships, independent studies, and work study. Kerry Kerfoot '97 graduated with a B.S. in fitness and cardiac rehabilitation and is back at IC obtaining her master's degree while working with the program.