Outcome Supporting Student Wellbeing
The SWI will track the University’s progress toward adopting the Okanagan Charter, expanding mental health promotion and treatment, and addressing food insecurity.
Increased days of good mental health, caring relationships, and sense of meaning and purpose are the key outcomes for SWI. These outcomes will be measured across all five University of Minnesota campuses, and allow flexibility in each campus’s approach in moving towards identified goals.
Success Measures
To achieve academic and personal success, today’s students need support from the University through:
- Access to culturally responsive mental health services,
- Support meeting their basic needs, and
- A comprehensive strategy to identify and address the factors that impact students’ mental health and basic needs, centering the groups of students experiencing the most disparate outcomes.
Signature Initiative
Adopt the Okanagan Charter, prioritizing commitment to health and wellbeing across the University of Minnesota in support of student success.
The University of Minnesota officially adopted the Okanagan Charter on April 7, 2026 at the University's Climate Resilience Teach-In. View a recording of the Okanagan Charter Signing.
Success Measure
Students understand the components that comprise their own wellbeing, and are able to use that information to make decisions for their own wellbeing.
Signature Initiative
Expand mental health promotion and treatment services for students on each campus.
Success Measures
Increase in consistently offered suite of mental health services available on all campuses.
Percentage of students who engage in student wellness initiative programs and services report increased days of good mental health, caring relationships, and sense of meaning and purpose.
Signature Initiative
Develop new solutions or grow existing strategies to expand access to low and no-cost food options on all campuses.
This strategy aims to increase the availability of low- and no-cost food options to reduce student hunger and stress, thereby supporting academic success.
Success Measures
- Students are able to access a suite of low cost food options, regardless of their campus location.
- Increase the pounds of food distributed on each campus.
- Increase in low cost food options are available on all campuses.
- Support and test innovative campus-specific solutions starting in the academic year 2026-2027.