November 20, 2025

New SUNY Plattsburgh wellness coordinator teaches healthy living now, later | News

PLATTSBURGH — SUNY Plattsburgh’s new coordinator for wellness and health promotion wants to take a wholistic approach to student, faculty and staff wellbeing.

Sarah Erno, who joined the staff in Student Engagement and Leadership at the university in August, said her role is to take a comprehensive approach to wellness and health that focuses on the Eight Dimensions of Wellness, a framework for understanding and pursuing wellness developed in the 1990s by Dr. Peggy Swarbrick.


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