Southern California, University of Health Sciences, is a private university located in Whittier, California. Southern California University offers ten-term and twelve-term doctor of chiropractic programs through its 100-year-old Los Angeles College of Chiropractic, ranked among the top ten chiropractic schools nationally. Southern California University advertises nine-percent expected job growth over the current decade in chiropractic care opportunities and a $179,327 average annual chiropractor salary in the university's Los Angeles area. US Newsranks chiropractic medicine as its nineteenth-best healthcare job and forty-sixth-best job overall. You have every reason to highly value your Southern California University of Health Sciences chiropractic medicine degree program. Retain national education attorney advisor Joseph D. Lento and the Lento Law Firm Team to help you preserve and protect that value against professionalism, progression, or other degree program issues.
SCUHS Chiropractic Student Issues
As conducive as the Southern California University of Health Sciences' chiropractic program is to your future success, your program will undoubtedly present its challenges. It's not simply that any professional program must demand rigor, dedication, and discipline from its students. It's also that life goes on while you are completing your chiropractic program. Challenges inside and outside your degree program can lead to student issues. Those challenges can differ for chiropractic students learning at the doctoral level from the academic, behavioral, and sexual misconduct charges less mature undergraduate students tend to face. Chiropractic students tend to find greater challenges in the program's unfamiliar and unique professionalism requirements and in meeting the academic standards, including the National Board of Chiropractic Examiners exams. But no matter your Southern California University chiropractic program challenge, retain attorney advisor Lento to help you preserve and protect your program. You have a lot riding on your SCUHS chiropractic education.
SCUHS Professionalism Standards
Southern California, University of Health Sciences, publishes comprehensive Student Rights and Responsibilities applying to all students, including its chiropractic medicine students. Student responsibilities include the academic integrity standards and behavioral standards common to undergraduate student conduct codes. Those misbehaviors include things like cheating, property damage or theft, and unlawful possession of weapons, drugs, and alcohol. But SCUHS chiropractic student responsibilities also include meeting chiropractic professional ethics and standards. SCUHS's Student Rights and Responsibilities prohibit “breaches of the ethical norms of the university or applicable professional associations, infringements of applicable professional licensure regulations (such as practice without a license), violations of state or federal law regarding the study or practice of the applicable health profession (such as breach of confidentiality or unsanctioned practice outside of scope), or infractions against the standards–including standards of care–of the applicable profession.” Other examples of unprofessional conduct that could result in SCUHS disciplinary charges include patient abuse or neglect, peer conflicts, disrespecting support staff or supervisors, and even frequent tardiness or absences.
Addressing SCUHS Professionalism Issues
Fortunately, SCUHS's Student Rights and Responsibilities include elaborate protective procedures that your retained attorney advisor can invoke on your behalf to help you reach your best outcome to unprofessionalism charges. Formal and informal proceedings may enable attorney advisor Lento to successfully present your exonerating and mitigating evidence. Attorney advisor Lento also has the reputation and experience to negotiate with university oversight officials for potential alternative special relief if disciplinary proceedings and appeals haven't won you due relief.
SCUHS Academic Standards
Southern California, University of Health Sciences, maintains a Student Financial Aid Handbook stating the minimum academic standards necessary for chiropractic and other students to remain eligible for financial aid. Schools like SCUHS receiving federal funding must apply those standards to satisfy federal satisfactory academic progress (SAP) regulations. SCUHS's SAP policy requires students to maintain a cumulative 2.00 grade point average, complete at least two-thirds of credits attempted, and finish their chiropractic degree program within six years, which is 150% of the four scheduled years. Chiropractic students must also enroll for at least eight-trimester units in every term. Failure to meet these SAP standards results in the student's disqualification from financial aid eligibility, without probation status or grace period typical at other schools. If you do not promptly address your academic progression issue, you could lose your financial aid. If you don't have other financial resources, you may not be able to complete your degree, seek licensure, and enter practice.
Addressing SCUHS Academic Progression Issues
SCUHS's Student Financial Aid Handbook authorizes students who fail to meet the school's minimum SAP standards to file and pursue an SAP appeal. The handbook names the death of an immediate family member or the student's own serious illness or injury as special circumstances justifying SAP relief. But with the skilled services of an experienced attorney advisor, your SAP appeal may detail, document, and prove other grounds for relief. Those other grounds could include things like an undiagnosed disability or a disability the school failed to reasonably accommodate, pregnancy, child-rearing, other dependent care, military training, and even divorce, separation, and other life events. Your SAP appeal must show not only that you have favorably resolved those circumstances but also that you have an achievable plan for bringing your academics back into SAP compliance. Grade appeals and completing incomplete courses can aid and speed up your remediation plan and help or even forestall the necessity for an SAP appeal. Retain attorney advisor Lento and the Lento Law Firm Team for your SCUHS grade and SAP appeals.
SCUHS Student Consequences
SCUHS's Student Rights and Responsibilities list the formal sanctions that university officials may impose on charges of unprofessionalism or other misconduct. Those sanctions include reprimand, probation, remediation plans for activities, workshops, and additional education or training, right on up to suspension or expulsion. Disciplinary findings and academic progression issues can have other serious collateral consequences. You may find yourself out of school, without university housing, medical care, or transportation, and without the mentors and support systems for you to pursue other educational and vocational opportunities. Even if you suffer only minor sanctions, those sanctions could delay your chiropractic licensure and affect your other employment and career opportunities. Your stakes warrant your commitment to defending, defeating, and otherwise overcoming your SCUHS issues.
SCUHS Attorney Advisor Services
You can trust national education attorney advisor Joseph D. Lento and the Lento Law Firm Student Defense Team because they have helped hundreds of students nationwide successfully overcome school issues to preserve and complete their degree program. Call 888.535.3686 or go online now to retain their premier attorney advisor services for Southern California University of Health Sciences students.
