By SAMANTHA MCGUIRE, Staff Reporter
The Alva Wellness Center held a heath fair on Nov. 15 free to all staff and open to students for a fee.
The Enid campus held a health fair also on Nov. 16.
The Alva campus event was held in a room in the Wellness Center, and is one of the three challenges the Wellness Center has offered up for employees to get healthy this semester.
The other challenges the Wellness Center has had are the Fit and Fresh Challenge and the Ranger Run Challenge. Both of those challenges had many participants.
Health assessments, lab testing, vital signs and immunizations are some of the many things the health clinic offered.
Richard Burdick, director of the J.R. Holder Wellness Center, said the purpose of the health fair was to help faculty be aware of their health.
“We are trying to make faculty and staff aware of what their underlying causes or issues could be, so they can improve upon that,” he said.
“The first sign of change is awareness,” Burdick said.
This was the purpose of the health fair, for faculty to stay healthy and improve on their health if need be, and for them to be aware.
The health fair is something Burdick said the Wellness Center committee plans to keep around for several years. By keeping it around longer he said hopefully more faculty will become interested.
The registration for the health fair filled up this year, but they also took walk-ins throughout the day.
Some students were interested in the health fair as well, Burdick said, and he hopes in the future they can open this opportunity up to students and community members.
For more information on future Wellness Center activities, students can contact Burdick at (580) 327-8109 or email him at rpburdick@nwosu.edu.