Oral Roberts University Tracks Students’ Fitness With Fitbits
Students must take at least 10,000 steps each day and spend 150 minutes within their target heart rate zone.
USA Today reports.
Oklahoma college tracks students’ fitness with Fitbits
Take a look at any college across the country, and you’re bound to come across some standard rules and guidelines. Attend your classes, pay your tuition on time, produce quality work, take at least 10,000 steps a day.
Wait … what was that last one?
That’s the new norm at Oral Roberts University, a small Christian college in Tulsa, Okla. The university issued a press release on Jan. 4 detailing a program it introduced in the fall of 2015, which requires all freshmen and new transfer students to wear Fitbits. Students must take at least 10,000 steps each day and spend 150 minutes within their target heart rate zone.
The new health initiative is part of the university’s longtime commitment to “Whole Person Education” — ORU’s educational ideology, which promotes physical fitness.