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A yoga class held in the atrium of UMMA

Human Health & Well-Being

Prioritizing Health & Well-Being

Campus Plan 2050 supports a focus on goals, objectives, and principles related to health and well-being; diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA); and the arts and humanities that span all aspects of campus planning.

Goal 1: Provide critical services to support students, faculty, and staff.

Objectives

  • Invest in facilities and services that support the health and well-being of students, faculty, staff, and patients.
  • Provide distributed access to wellness spaces.

Goal 2: Adapt campus spaces to improve the user experience and comfort.

Objectives

  • Integrate nature within study spaces.
  • Improve daylighting in campus buildings.

Goal 3: Create an environment where students, faculty, staff, and patients have access to resources and activities that promote wellness.

Objectives

  • Expand the network of both passive and active recreational spaces.
  • Improve access to healthy food.
  • Support campus food systems programming and food production.

Goal 4: Build foundations for resiliency and community on campus.

Objectives

  • Encourage interaction through multiple scales and configurations of social spaces.
  • Expand and enhance access to existing academic support services.

Goal 5: Foster an inclusive physical environment where individuals can thrive.

Objectives

  • Adapt learning environments to support neurodiverse students.
  • Improve wayfinding.
  • Enhance physical accessibility and inclusivity.
  • Expand access to recreational space.

Goal 6: Promote diverse representation within the built environment to inspire a sense of belonging.

Objectives

  • Encourage dialogue and learning around diverse histories through public art.
  • Create additional spaces for affinity and multicultural centers.
  • Facilitate opportunities to highlight the natural and built beauty of the campuses.

Goal 7: Expand campus services and infrastructure needed to support a diverse campus community.

Objectives

  • Meet basic needs of all students, faculty, and staff.
  • Expand access to on-campus housing.

Goal 8: Distribute resources across a variety of needs that emphasize investment in equity-centered projects.

Objectives

  • Ensure equal and appropriate access across campus.

Human Health and Well-Being Principles

  • Utilize universal design principles to guide the creation of accessible routes and pedestrian pathways; exterior accessible routes from accessible parking spaces, transit stations and stops, and drop-off areas to main building entrances; prioritize accessible walkways over ramps in the landscape and eliminate stairs where possible.
  • Visually and physically connect interiors with nature and open space. Incorporate greeneryand other elements of biophilia within campus buildings.
  • Enhance space for adaptive sports and fitness within recreation buildings.
  • Locate benches along outer edges of major pedestrian routes at regular intervals to provide resting spots for the mobility impaired without creating obstructions to the public way.
  • Integrate places for well-being in campus buildings and landscapes; consider different scales for personal and community well-being. Examples include space for personal reflection, prayer and meditation, lactation, virtual counseling, study, gathering, and collaboration.
  • Distribute access to well-being spaces across the Ann Arbor Campus.
  • Consider sound attenuation in classrooms and study spaces.
  • Integrate a network of DEIA spaces and inclusive infrastructure on campus.
  • Provide inclusive and accessible space for cultural events in campus buildings and landscapes.
  • Consider the needs of all campus users in the selection and placement of site furnishings.