Wellness

Why choose wellness at North Central College?

You’ll learn from faculty with years of experience developing and executing wellness and activity plans. This minor takes a holistic approach and recognizes the importance of taking responsibility for your own physical and psychological health. You’ll learn to create and implement a variety of wellness plans and position yourself for a successful career in health, wellness or nutrition.

You can also:

Explore the best ways to plan, implement and evaluate a variety of indoor and outdoor activities.
Gain additional experience with a vast number of health and nutrition professionals in the Chicagoland area.

Alicia Zimmerman earns College's 2012 Outstanding Student in Secondary Education Award

Alicia Zimmerman of Wheaton was awarded the 2012 Outstanding Student in Secondary Education Award during Honors Day May 15 at North Central College.

Peace Corps Director Aaron Williams to address North Central College Commencement

Aaron Williams, director of the Peace Corps, will deliver the address June 9 at the 147th Commencement ceremony of North Central College.

Three-part Human Rights Symposium kicks off April 9

Senior laboratory analyst for Clinton Health Access Initiative in Kenya to give talk on “Fighting HIV/AIDS by Bringing New Technologies Closer to Patients.”

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Careers

Recent graduates in wellness include:

Personal trainer
Nutrition specialist

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Candice Caldwell

Exercise science major, wellness and health education minors

A fitness enthusiast who already maintains her own nutrition blog, Candice found an ideal program to pursue her passion in the wellness minor at North Central. The combination of the holistic approach taught in the wellness program, which focuses on preventive care and the development of a healthy lifestyle, with the physiological background gained in her exercise science major, gives her a well-rounded knowledge base from which to pursue her goal of becoming a nutrition, health and wellness professional. “I want to share with people how to become healthy through exercise and nutrition,” she says. “I think it’s so neat that eating certain foods can affect a person’s health and well being.”

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Kelly Ator

Wellness

“My experiences at North Central uncovered my interests in wellness and recreation. I realized I want to get people active, and help them develop a lifestyle of fitness and wellness, and have fun doing it.”

Undecided on a major when she arrived at North Central, Kelly says, “My strategy was to get the most well-rounded experience I could in the areas of health and activity.” She soon chose minors in wellness, physical education and coaching to complement a major in sport management. “My wellness minor gave me a deeper understanding of why we’re supposed to exercise and eat right and how to do it right. It also led to an interest in working with childhood obesity programs.”

Kelly says her focus on wellness led her to a graduate program in recreation administration at Illinois State University. “I’ll be working as a graduate assistant in special events and competitive programs and learning about everything related to recreation and wellness.”

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