Life Chiropractic College West, located in Hayward, California, captures the full spirit of chiropractic care and treatment in its statement: “Life West's clinically driven curriculum and whole-body health care approach allows our graduates to play a major role in the care of their patients, paving the way for measurable and meaningful results without the pharmaceutical-first approach all too common today.” Life Chiropractic College West boasts an 11:1 student-to-staff ratio, a typical graduation timeline of twelve to fourteen quarters, and a $167,278 average annual salary for its California chiropractic practitioners. The college achieves its impressive commitment to student development through a robust mix of parallel clinical and academic experiences, rather than beginning with only classroom studies before progressing to the clinic, like traditional programs. Life Chiropractic College West also maintains a solid eighty-one-percent National Board of Chiropractic Examiners pass rate within six months of graduation. You've chosen a solid program at Life Chiropractic College West. Retain national education attorney advisor Joseph D. Lento and the Lento Law Firm Team to help you overcome your professionalism, progression, or other degree program issues.
Life Chiropractic College West Student Issues
Chiropractic school is certainly no cakewalk. Life Chiropractic College West must challenge its students both in the classroom and clinic if those students are to gain the necessary knowledge and skills for safe, effective, and fruitful chiropractic practice. Yet life goes on when a student is in a chiropractic program. And the program itself or personal challenges outside the program, or a combination of both, can lead to chiropractic program student issues. Chiropractic students at the doctoral program level generally don't face many of the challenges that undergraduate students face. Their relative maturity tends to minimize their issues with the academic, behavioral, or sexual harassment charges undergraduate students tend to face. Instead, chiropractic students more commonly face the professionalism and progression issues addressed below. National education attorney advisor Lento is available to help you at Life Chiropractic College West overcome any issue threatening your program completion. Value your Life Chiropractic College West education.
Life Chiropractic College West Professionalism Standards
Life Chiropractic College West maintains a Student Catalog and Handbook that includes its Student Code of Conduct. The Student Code of Conduct includes the prohibitions on drugs, alcohol, violence, threats of violence, property damage and theft, and other misbehaviors common to undergraduate codes. But Life Chiropractic College West also expects its students to learn and conform their behavior to chiropractic professional standards. The Student Code of Conduct states expressly, “Students who may be out of compliance with LCCW standards with regard to professional conduct may be subject to discipline.” The code reiterates, “A student's continued enrollment at Life Chiropractic College West is based not only on satisfactory scholastic status and adequate clinical skills, but also upon sound psychological health and professional conduct including the student's attitudes, actions, appearance, and attire.” Examples of LCCW unprofessional conduct specific to chiropractic care expressly include “performing any spinal adjustments or extra spinal manipulation on others without authorized super- vision or violating any provision of the laws of the State of California.” Frequent absences from or tardiness to clinical assignments, patient abuse or neglect, conflicts with peers or support staff and disobeying or disrespecting supervisors are other examples of unprofessional conduct that could result in LCCW disciplinary proceedings.
Addressing Life Chiropractic College West Professionalism Issues
Life Chiropractic College West's Student Catalog and Handbook include protective procedures that your retained attorney advisor can help you invoke to challenge unprofessionalism charges with your own exonerating and mitigating evidence. Both formal and informal proceedings are available. Attorney advisor Lento is also skilled and experienced at reaching and negotiating with college oversight officials for alternative special relief, even if you have exhausted all other proceedings.
Life Chiropractic College West Academic Standards
Federal satisfactory academic progress (SAP) regulations require schools receiving federal funding to hold students to minimum academic standards for aid eligibility. Life Chiropractic College West's Student Catalog and Handbook adopt an SAP policy satisfying those federal requirements. Under that SAP policy, LCCW students must maintain a cumulative 2.00 grade point average by the end of their second year, must complete at least two-thirds of course credits attempted, and must graduate within 150% of the scheduled time for program completion. LCCW officials notify students who fall below SAP standards, giving students four quarters to bring their academic records back into SAP compliance. While some schools simply disqualify students from financial aid eligibility when they fall below SAP minimum standards, Life Chiropractic College West's Student Catalog and Handbook make clear that the college suspends and dismisses students who fail to meet those academic minimums. If not addressed, your SAP warning and probation could lead to your school dismissal.
Addressing Life Chiropractic College West Progression Issues
Life Chiropractic College West's Student Catalog and Handbook permit students to appeal their SAP warning and probation when the student can demonstrate “special circumstances.” While the catalog lists only the death of a relative and serious illness or injury of the student as examples, your SAP appeal may be able to convince school officials on other grounds such as your pregnancy, childcare, dependent care, divorce or separation, required military training, and similar life issues. But for a successful SAP appeal, you must not only detail and document your special circumstances. You must also articulate an achievable remediation plan under which you can bring your academic record back into SAP compliance within a reasonable timeframe. The LCCW catalog also authorizes grade appeals. If you successfully appeal low or failing grades and complete your incomplete courses, you might bring your academic record above SAP minimums even without an appeal. Attorney advisor Lento and the Lento Law Firm Team are available to help you with your Life Chiropractic College West SAP and grade appeals.
Life Chiropractic College West Student Consequences
Life Chiropractic College West's Student Catalog and Handbook expressly states that college officials may impose sanctions up to suspension or expulsion for professionalism and other issues. Take any sanction seriously because discipline of any kind could delay or, if serious enough, even prevent your chiropractic licensure. School sanctions can have other serious collateral consequences like the loss of school loans, awards, and other financial support, lost references and recommendations, and the inability to transfer or gain admission to other programs. Discipline can also affect your future employment. With so much on the line, retain premier attorney advisor services for your best outcome.
Attorney Advisor Services for Life Chiropractic College West
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