Interested in reducing your cholesterol levels, preventing diabetes or heart disease, quitting smoking or managing your weight? What about blood pressure or sugar testing? Would you take time from work to attend a workshop on parenting, coping with change, rebuilding your life after divorce, elder care, adoption, grieving or anxiety? Would you be interested in joining a network of people interested in the same concerns?

Cornell's Wellness Program, Employee Assistance Program and Office of Workforce Diversity, Equity and Life Quality have developed an online survey to gauge the interest of staff and faculty members about these and other topics related to well-being. The survey (go to http://wellness.cornell.edu and click on the survey in the Monthly Highlights box), should take no more than 15 minutes to complete. The results will be used for planning future programs.

"During these current economic times, it is important that we use our staffing resources wisely," said Beth McKinney, director of the Cornell Wellness Program and an employee-elected trustee, "and offer those programs that are of most interest to the members of the Cornell community. It is also important for the university to continue to promote personal well-being as a strategy for dealing with -- and even thriving on -- change."

McKinney said that well-being includes mental and physical health and career/life "fit" (also referred to as work and life balance); accessing Cornell's flex policies can help promote these. To find the many links related to well-being topics and resources offered through Cornell, see the Web pages on Cornell's Caring Community, at http://www.ohr.cornell.edu/caringCommunity.

"These all contribute to making Cornell a great place to work," McKinney said.