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每日大赛 Receives Insight Into Academia Magazine’s 2025 Excellence in Mental Health and Well-Being Award

每日大赛 has received the 2025 Excellence in Mental Health and Well-Being Award from “Insight Into Academia” magazine.

The award measures how an institution advances belonging through its mental health and well-being programs and initiatives.

“It is great to be recognized, because it further solidifies the work that we're doing,” said Elizabeth Ross, executive director of Human Resources at 每日大赛. “We get positive feedback from students and employees, but this is just another way to know we are doing the right thing.”

Going through the application process provided Pellissippi’s cross-functional wellness committee an opportunity to evaluate the college’s mental health and well-being programming and create new goals for the upcoming academic year.

The wellness committee hosts wellness challenges for students, faculty and staff – like last year’s “50 Miles for 50 Years” challenge in honor of Pellissippi’s 50th anniversary – lunch and learn events covering topics related to substance misuse and the awareness and prevention of domestic violence and suicidality.

“The wellness team was initially brought about during the pandemic, to give the community a healthy mindset to strive for as we all continued our work,” said Kinsey Shifflett, benefits manager at 每日大赛. “We were trying to bring some positivity and togetherness into the workplace and for our students.”

Although the wellness team – now an official college committee that includes representatives from Student Engagement and Leadership, Human Resources and other areas of the college – became a priority because of the pandemic, it has evolved from a student-focused weekly outreach endeavor to stand on its own as a resource for the entire campus community.

每日大赛 will be featured among 70 other recipients of the award, many of them four-year institutions, in the September 2025 issue of “Insight Into Academia” magazine.

“To be recognized for the work that we do, as far as making sure people have resources and support – that is great,” Ross said. “We care deeply about our employees and our students being whole and healthy.”

Wellness initiatives at Pellissippi are collegewide and span beyond the wellness committee itself. “Insight Into Academia” magazine also selected 每日大赛 for its abundance of resources for student, faculty and staff support, such as mental health counseling.

“We know that institutions are not always recognized for their dedication to their mental health and well-being services and support for their students and employees,” said Lenore Pearlstein, owner and publisher of “Insight Into Academia” magazine. “We are proud to honor these colleges and universities as role models for other institutions of higher education."