Client: Life University
Project Description: Copy for Life University’s admissions viewbook, the primary piece the school uses to recruit new students. Using modular copy, it invites prospective students to skip around in the piece, reflecting the flexibility of Life University’s approach to education.
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An education of a lifetime
for your life’s work
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Lasting Purpose embraces the idea that one should love, serve, and give from one’s abundance--without compromise--to all beings, in all ways, and in all professions.
Dr. Sid E. Williams, Founder and President of Life University
Greetings from Dr. Sid
No matter what you envision as your life’s work, you’ll find that Life University can guide you in the right direction. At Life, we’ve designed an integrated, practical curriculum that enables you to work toward and accomplish all your goals--with no trade-offs or concessions.
With a degree from Life University, you soon discover that your financial success and professional achievement make up only part of the picture. At Life, we infuse all of our programs with the powerful philosophy of Lasting Purpose. We understand that success depends not on what you have, but on what you do with what you have. Happiness comes as a result of kindness; wealth, from the desire to share.
Renowned for the most advanced chiropractic programs in the country, Life University also offers innovative, results-oriented programs in business, nutrition, dietetics, and sport health science--all on a peaceful wooded campus just a few minutes’ drive from the Olympic city of Atlanta.
How can you begin your life’s work? Use your imagination, set your priorities, find your footing--and come to Life.
Dr. Sid E. Williams
President and Founder, Life University
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Lasting Purpose
What’s your life’s ambition? Perhaps you see yourself providing healing to thousands through the world’s leading drug-free healthcare profession. Maybe you dream of helping people lay the foundation for healthy lifestyles, of helping athletes maintain peak performance, or of fostering an attitude of care and understanding in the world of business. Whatever your life goals, you can make the most of them at Life University. Founded in 1974 by Dr. Sid E. Williams, Life began as a small chiropractic college with only 22 students. Since that time, we’ve become the largest and most influential school of chiropractic in the world, while expanding our curriculum to include cutting-edge, future-oriented programs in a variety of academic and professional disciplines. Amazing progress? You know it. But when your commitment to excellence embodies the principles of Lasting Purpose, you can attain even the loftiest goals.
What do we mean by Lasting Purpose? That’s the distinctive system of values best exhibited by our President and Founder Dr. Sid E. Williams, and which forms the cornerstone of all degree programs--and indeed, everything we do--at Life.
A philosophy based on a life lived in balance, compassion for all people, and continuous self-improvement, Lasting Purpose holds our campus together. Though people at Life may have individual opinions about different issues, we also share a common bond--an exceptional perspective both on our own lives and on our abilities to make a real difference in the lives of others. Lasting Purpose not only gives our campus a strong sense of community, it also provides a powerful support system for each individual.
At Life University, you begin to work on achieving goals that stretch beyond the typical nine-to-five job and big paycheck. Here you prepare for your life’s work, an enterprise that brings into alignment your occupation, your particular aspirations, and your own caring personality. Whether your chosen professional field be chiropractic, business administration, nutrition, dietetics, or sport health science, your experience at Life can propel you forward into an exciting and satisfying career. With a degree from Life University, of course you can expect impressive financial success, but you can also anticipate the personal rewards to be so much greater.
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Lasting Purpose—To Love, To Serve, To Give
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To Love
Too often, people don’t think of the words “love” and “career” as going together, but Life helps you integrate love of vocation, love of humanity, and love of achievement.
Graduates of Life’s doctor of chiropractic program measure their success by how much true healing they can accomplish and how many lives they touch. Says one recent graduate, “With chiropractic, we treat the whole person. We don’t view the individual as a collection of symptoms. Instead, we view our patients as people first--people who just happen to need some spinal adjustment.”
Even after they enter their professional field, our graduates continue to draw on Life’s emphasis on Lasting Purpose. Says Dr. James Brown, dean of the school of chiropractic, “I keep in touch with many Life alums. They all tell me, in essence, the same thing: ‘My Life experience benefited me in more ways than one. I’m a much better person for having come here.’ It’s refreshing to know that Lasting Purpose provides a continuous resource for them.”
· Life University is the first school with a basis in chiropractic to implement the Health Careers Opportunity Program (HCOP), a $407,000 federal grant program for disadvantaged minority students and the largest federal grant ever awarded to a school of chiropractic.
· Life’s Lasting Purpose doesn’t stop at the edge of our campus. Students and faculty members involve themselves in a wide variety of volunteer projects. Life donates the proceeds from our annual Run for Life to a variety of community projects and sponsors a Boy Scouts of America Explorer’s Troop, the Christmas Lights of Life program, and the annual Community Easter Egg Hunt.
To Serve
Founded upon the principles of individual compassion and dynamic healing, Life University has emphasized the dignity of human service and volunteerism from Day One. Life prepares you to embark upon a lifetime of service while enjoying a lifetime of prosperity.
· Life helps you create your own path after graduation by providing you with a strong sense of balance. Here you acquire not only the crucial skills for your chosen profession, but also a singular world view that can be adapted to any endeavor or life choice. Through clinic work, internships, and seminars with successful alums, Life offers a distinctly practical, hands-on approach. Upon starting their own practices, most of our students realize immediate benefits from the careful guidance they received at Life.
· Life’s faculty get high marks from our students for their energetic presentation of the course material and for the genuine concern they demonstrate both in and out of class. Says one student, “Professors here can put the material into language that everyone can understand. Many give back your paper or test, and then set up an appointment to go over it with you personally.” Experts in their fields, Life professors are also real teachers, those who know how to keep the course material fresh. At Life, no classes are taught by graduate teaching assistants.
· Even if you’ve been out of school for a few years, Life can help you get on the fast track for a new career. Opening our doors to all qualified students, we don’t view you simply as a set of numbers on an academic transcript. Instead, we look at the whole person. Sure, we base admission on your grade point average, but we also take into account your background, your current situation, your professional aspirations, and your will to succeed. While Life encourages your goals, we also provide you with the tools necessary to accomplish them--including basic writing, math, and science courses if your skills need some refreshing.
· With an innovative graduate program in sport health science and a new program accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) that allows you to receive university credit for past work experience, Life is expanding the practical orientation--so successful in our chiropractic programs--to our other offerings. A master’s degree from Life can boost your credentials in athletic injury-care management--and you can work toward your degree either by attending classes on campus or through Life’s through teleconferencing and off-campus instruction via Life’s new distance learning program.
· Life University’s goals fit with those of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ “Healthy People 2000” program: increase life spans, reduce health disparities, and achieve access to preventive care for all Americans.
· Life’s extensive recruiting efforts, which include visits to predominantly African American, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American schools, has resulted in a diverse student body united in Lasting Purpose. In fact, Life has the largest number of African American and Native American students in any chiropractic program in the nation.
· Even before you graduate, our Career Counseling and Placement Office helps you find immediate employment. Come by and let our experts help you fine-tune your resume, access our chiropractic placement listings, or learn about the various avenues you can pursue with your degree.
To Give
As Dr. Sid points out, the law of reciprocity dictates that, in time, what we give is returned to us manifold. All of our programs inspire you to view altruism, empathy, and giving of your abundance as a great way of life.
· Featuring some of the most prominent chiropractors in the world, Life’s Dynamic Essentials seminar series--which you attend every quarter you spend at Life--keep you up to date on the latest developments within the profession. According to one student, “These lectures help us see the big picture by exposing us to actual life experiences. DE gives us constant reality checks--and it happens only at Life.”
· At Life, our diverse student body and faculty ensures that you can find a variety of people to whom you can really relate as well as fascinating new ideas at every turn. Best of all, everyone involved in our community--professors, administrators, and your fellow students--demonstrate a willingness to share their insights and to help you reach your peak.
· Don’t be surprised to find the “big names” you read about in your textbooks guest lecturing in your classes or simply stopping by your table for a casual chat in Life’s rustic student center. Life’s campus often serves as a gathering place for the most respected proponents of chiropractic in the world with Life’s own Dr. Sid leading the way. In the words of one student, “You never know who’s going to show up on campus--and when they do, they always make time to visit with students.”
· Students involved in Life’s undergraduate program can choose from a variety of internships, from organizing a county-wide high-school soccer league to balancing the books at Disneyworld. You can also speed your education along through Life’s articulation agreements with neighboring Southern Polytechnic State University or Chattahoochee Technical Institute.
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Academics
Though chiropractic continues to form the foundation of Life University, expect to find a winning combination of flexibility and focus in all our degree programs. At Life, you can discover your own niche, go with your strengths, and achieve peak performance by choosing from among several areas of study. Besides chiropractic, Life offers innovative majors in sport health science, business, dietetics, and nutrition--all of which benefit from the practical approach and emphasis on Lasting Purpose that has made our Doctor of Chiropractic program one of the most respected in the world.
School of Chiropractic
Emphasizing the maintenance of good health rather than the treatment of disease, chiropractic gives you the chance to make an immediate difference in your patients’ lives without unnecessary drugs or surgery. As a chiropractor, you use your skills to ensure that your patients’ nervous systems are free to function at their best, correcting misalignments of the spinal column to allow the body to heal itself naturally.
Nowhere in the world do you receive such strong support for your study of chiropractic than at Life University.
· During the 14 quarters you spend becoming a Life University Doctor of Chiropractic, you receive a full complement of experience, from the study of molecules and cells in basic science courses to the investigation of the entire body in upper-level anatomy and physiology.
· At Life, you spend 4,700 hours--both in the classroom and in the clinic--becoming adept in chiropractic philosophy, analysis, and technique. Like doctors in other healthcare areas, your education is built upon the basic sciences, including microbiology, pathology, physiology, anatomy, physics, and biochemistry.
· Life’s practical approach provides you with hands-on experience as early as your third quarter. After two quarters of pre-clinic instruction, in which you’re guided by faculty members skilled both in chiropractic techniques and in teaching you how to perform them, you begin providing chiropractic care to your classmates on a mutual basis.
· After passing your chiropractic proficiency exam in your seventh quarter, you begin providing out-patient care in Life’s three clinics (located on campus, in north Marietta, and in downtown Atlanta). During your seven quarters working in the clinics, you hone your skills not only in different chiropractic techniques, but also in recruiting new patients--a powerful plus once you start building your own practice.
· Patients know that they can trust Life University graduates to have received both thorough academic preparation and comprehensive clinical training. Life exceeds the national standards mandated by the Council on Chiropractic Education, requiring almost twice as many hours of patient care and adjusting experience as most schools of chiropractic.
· No chiropractic program in the world exposes you to such a wide array of techniques. Among the different techniques you learn at Life are the cervical chair-knee/chest, full spine, Kale, upper cervical specific-toggle recoil, pediatric, extremity, and sacro-occipital. Other techniques you’re exposed to include Life Cervical, emphasizing precision pre- and post-x-ray placement and analysis; Grostic; the internationally respected J. Clay Thompson Terminal Point Technique, to which Life University has sole rights. Activator techniques are taught as an elective.
· Want to investigate even more techniques? That’s easy at Life. We offer a variety of technique clubs that allow you to hone your existing skills and explore new avenues.
· At Life, you receive valuable training in the practical side of establishing and managing your own business. Courses and workshops on insurance management, accounting, financial management, computerized office administration, office procedure, marketing, and public relations ensure that no aspect of your future success is left to chance.
· For most of our graduates, chiropractic is not only about living well; it’s also about making a good living. A doctor with an established practice can expect to earn $70,000 to $80,000 per year. Many earn considerably more, depending on location, individual motivation, and skill.
· Chiropractic is the fastest growing healthcare field in the world. Over 20 million Americans seek chiropractic care each year.
School of Undergraduate Studies
Life’s commitment to Lasting Purpose results in innovative undergraduate programs, sculpted to meet the needs of the 21st century while at the same time integrating professional expertise and personal interaction. At Life, you not only receive the essential knowledge, you develop a flair for innovation and adaptability that equips you to make a distinctive mark in any profession. Combine this blend of focus and flexibility with the tenets of Lasting Purpose, and you’re prepared to make a valuable contribution not only in the workplace, but also in the world.
Look to Life to satisfy your undergraduate requirements. You’ll find that our programs’ efficient size ensures that you receive plenty of individual attention and consideration. Then either step up to a graduate or professional degree program or step out--to a lucrative and satisfying career.
· By completing your core curriculum requirements at Life, you lay a firm foundation for a chiropractic education or a variety of other healthcare degree programs.
· Approved by the American Dietetics Association (ADA), Life’s Bachelor of Science in Dietetics provides you with a firm foundation in individual nutrition counseling. Students find the B.S. in Dietetics to form a winning combination with Life’s D.C. degree. According to graduate Barbara Olds ’95, “Dietetics changes your credentials totally. You can heal nutritionally and chiropractically.”
· A highly marketable degree that is flexible enough to accommodate your own goals and ambitions, Life’s Bachelor of Business Administration enhances the customary marketing and management courses you expect by helping you define and develop your entrepreneurial skills.
School of Graduate Studies
Designed for healthcare providers--including chiropractors working with athletes, coaches, personal trainers, and health club personnel--Life’s master’s degree in sport health science prepares you for jobs in corporate fitness, health clubs, spas, college and high school sports, and sports rehabilitation clinics.
An innovative program offering advanced training in fitness and sports-related injury treatment and prevention, the master’s in sport health science provides a dual focus. By focusing on Athletic Training, you prepare yourself for a career that helps athletes maintain peak performance through the prevention, management, evaluation, treatment, and rehabilitation of athletic injuries. When you specialize in Fitness and Wellness, you hone your familiarity and knowledge about various preventative and rehabilitation health programs, and develop the kind of expertise that’s in demand in many sport health areas.
Facilities
At Life, we take your devotion to your work as seriously as you do. As you prepare for your life’s work, you shouldn’t have to settle for second best--one reason why Life provides leading-edge laboratories, comfortable classrooms, ample study space, and some of the finest state-of-the-art teaching and diagnostic facilities in the country. Here you learn on the same kind of equipment you’ll most likely work with after graduation. Learning at Life means beginning your career with confidence--and developing a professional approach that should always keep you ahead of the rest.
· Our new Basic Sciences Building includes two amphitheater lecture rooms, a technique center, two radiology/ roentgenology (x-ray) labs with darkrooms, lab facilities for prerequisite and advanced sciences, and food preparation labs for nutrition courses.
· Opportunities to work at the forefront of chiropractic study abound at the Sid E. Williams Research Center, the largest facility in the world devoted to the analysis of empirical data relating to the fundamental tenets of chiropractic. The Center explores the detection, measurement, and reduction of spinal subluxation.
· Recently tripled in size, the Nell K. Williams Learning Resources Center offers one of the most comprehensive collections of chiropractic books and periodicals, and the largest selection of chiropractic videotapes in the world.
· One of the finest such facilities in the Southeast, Life’s Sports Science Center houses exercise physiology labs, a biomechanics lab, and sophisticated diagnostic equipment--as well as a new gymnasium, a new weight room, recreational areas, and classrooms.
· Two Computer Centers provide you with high-tech resources, training workshops, and various services. Featuring Macintosh and IBM-compatible terminals, our computer resources also include an on-line information service and 500 software applications, reference books, manuals, and periodicals. Our services cover instruction in computer literacy, computerized office management, and a variety of software. We also offer interactive video laser disc programs provided by the National Library of Medicine.
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Living Life to its Fullest
Back when Life was founded, all of our classes met in a single room in a rented warehouse. Today, Life’s campus has grown to comprise more than 100 acres, 15 buildings, some of the finest chiropractic facilities in the country, and some of the best athletic facilities in the Southeast. Each year, we host thousands of visitors--for university functions, for sporting events, and for community functions such as our renowned “Lights of Life” Christmas display and our annual Easter Egg Hunt. We believe our rapid growth is a testament to the vision of Dr. Sid and the important work we all perform at Life--work you can share in.
At Life, you enjoy all the benefits you expect to find at a first-rate private university--a picturesque campus, small classes, and a caring faculty. Here we nurture both the life of the mind and the life of the heart. You won’t find any environment more conducive to learning: Take a break from your work in the radiology lab to collect your thoughts by strolling along the banks of Rottenwood Creek. Watch an authentic 19th-century mill grind meal in Life’s historic village--then head over to our high-tech food preparation labs for nutrition classes that speak to the needs of the 21st century. Keep the energy and inspiration flowing after your Dynamic Essentials seminar by visiting Life’s Wall of Honor in our new Centennial Olympic Plaza. Featuring one of only seven pieces of sculpture in the United States from the Barcelona Olympic Games--Tolerance by the famed Spanish artist Gardy Artigas--this plaza serves as a powerful reminder of the melding of cultures that the worldwide Olympic movement fosters, and of Life University’s own role as an international training facility for the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games.
We believe that our tranquil, suburban campus can serve as a friendly haven that encourages you to live Dr. Sid’s philosophy of Lasting Purpose and build a true understanding of how you can incorporate it into your own career. Whether you’re lunching with friends in the century-old lodge that houses our student center, watching the swans glide across the lake, or simply communing with nature, you’re developing a sense of inner peace and Lasting Purpose that can help you remain focused and effective even in the most hectic surroundings.
Peak Performance
Take a few moments to look around our campus, chat with our students, and get the feel of Life--and you might discover something of a paradox. Though Life’s pastoral setting fosters a sense of calm reflection, our campus almost crackles with energy. With over 50 service, social, and fraternal organizations, Life helps to ensure that your years here are balanced, exciting, and enjoyable.
Start with our unparalleled fitness facilities in the Sports Science Center: state-of-the-art exercise equipment, training rooms, sophisticated diagnostic equipment such as treadmills and spirometers, and activity rooms for aerobics, fitness training, and karate. At Life, you can climb a 50-foot constructed sand dune (the first of its kind in the world), jog a five-mile cross-country trail that weaves its way through our wooded campus and two city parks (the only one of its kind in the South), and train on the same facilities used by Olympic athletes from Australia, Costa Rica, England, France, Germany, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, and Russia. Realize that when you train at Life, you follow in the footsteps of some major achievers and record-holders; we believe that this fact alone may inspire you to push yourself to attain new heights.
Life is the place where champions reach their peak. Our own athletic teams are no strangers to victory--or to record-breaking achievements. In 1997, Life won three national championships.
With a home-game winning streak dating back to November of 1993, Life’s ‘97 men’s basketball team, the Running Eagles, led the NAIA in scoring offence and margin of victory. Coach Roger Kaiser was named NAIA Coach of the Year while four of his players were named NAIA All-Americans. Life’s Track and Field team were named the NAIA National Indoor Champions with 11 All-American performances at indoor meets. Our hockey team finished the hat-trick by being named 1997 National Club Champions.
In other sports, Life’s Cross-Country team finished second in the NAIA in the 1996-97 season and our men’s soccer team were semifinalists for the NAIA Southeast Regional Tournament.
At Life, you can challenge yourself to go for the varsity gold in golf, women’s basketball, and women’s soccer. In club sports, try joining the Life Ruggers, three-time winners of the Georgia Rugby Cup, or equally enthusiastic teams for men’s and women’s basketball, volleyball, ice hockey, men’s and women’s softball, and soccer. Life also offers several intramural activities.
If you want to help boost the spirit that leads to the victory, try out for our world-class cheerleaders, the dance team, or Life’s pep band. Whatever your interests, Life affords you with plenty of opportunities to get involved.
The University in the City
Just 20 minutes from downtown Atlanta, Life’s carefully chosen location provides you with lasting benefits. Besides great year-round weather, Atlanta can also boast of being the home of several Fortune 500 companies, the nation’s busiest airport, and the 1996 World Series Champions, the Atlanta Braves. Besides offering the best culture, entertainment, and sports in the Southeast, Atlanta serves as a crossroads for the professions--Life University itself is an important destination for those involved in the chiropractic profession.
Our proximity to Atlanta enables you to make the important connections that can help launch a promising career, allows you to work from a solid and respectable “home base” that can serve as a stepping-stone to anyplace you want to go in the world, and helps you develop the professional and personal savvy that only living and learning in a major city can provide.
· In Atlanta, you’ll find it easy to make national--and even international--connections. Our region is large enough to accommodate your practice if you decide to make the Southeast your home, but Atlanta also serves as a gateway to the globe. Life graduates practice down the block and across the seas, in 49 of our nation’s 50 states and in over 30 other countries.
· Because of its size and diversity, Atlanta also offers myriad employment opportunities that can help you finance your education at Life. Our Job Location and Development Department can help you and your spouse find part- or full-time jobs from among the abundant opportunities in Marietta and Atlanta.
· Not only is Atlanta a great training facility for your career, it’s a fabulous playground as well. From the emerald sweep of Piedmont Park to the pulsing nightlife of the Buckhead district, from the vibrancy and bustle of downtown to the relaxed funkiness of neighborhoods like Little Five Points and Virginia Highlands, Atlanta has it all.
· In Atlanta, boredom isn’t an option. View the art treasures of the High Museum or the wonders of science at the Fernbank Science Center. Explore the past by visiting Stone Mountain, the Martin Luther King Center, or the Carter Presidential Library--and anticipate the future at the Scitrek Science and Technology Museum. Listen to the classics with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra or dance to the modern at clubs and concert venues. Thrill to high drama at the Alliance Theatre or to dramatic heights at Six Flags Over Georgia. Along the way, Atlanta’s thousands of restaurants and lounges provide ample refueling stops.
Residence Life
Back in the early days, one Life student chose to live in a teepee in the woods near the banks of Rottenwood Creek. Today, most students choose their housing arrangements from a variety of apartments and houses for rent in the greater Marietta area. Life offers limited on-campus housing, but unlike many schools that require you to live in dorms, Life recognizes your adult sense of responsibility from the very beginning. We encourage you to find a place off-campus and make it your own--with all the responsibility and freedom that entails.
As with everything at Life, you don’t have to do it alone. Just drop by our Student Affairs Office for help locating an apartment, condo, or house appropriate to your needs--as well as access to a great network for kindred spirits who may start out as ordinary roommates, but soon turn into trusted friends and valuable colleagues.
A Lifetime of Achievement
If we included profiles of all Life’s success stories, our viewbook would resemble the telephone directory of a medium-sized town. In fact, a full sixth of all chiropractors practicing in the nation received their degrees from Life--and we’ve only been around since 1974. Just imagine what we’ll be able to accomplish in our next two decades!
What kind of people attend Life? All kinds--from traditional-age students fresh from high school to retired executives ready to begin an exciting new career in chiropractic. Let us introduce you to some representative graduates. We believe that their life experiences can offer the best predictors of what you can expect out of Life.
Leana Kart
Two years after receiving her D.C. degree, Dr. Leana Kart ’87 decided to give something back to the community she’d taken to her heart. “I had a fabulous associateship in Knoxville, Tennessee, but I wanted to open my own practice, so I moved back to Atlanta.” Wishing to serve the city’s Hispanic community, Dr. Leana reached out to it by advertising her Northwest Atlanta clinic in Hispanic newspapers and the Hispanic telephone directory, and by employing bilingual clinic assistants--including current Life students. With her husband, Lawrence, who acts as office manager and who is presently enrolled in Life’s one-year Chiropractic Technician program, Dr. Leana has built a solid practice that has enabled her to purchase the building in which her clinic resides.
What’s the key to Dr. Leana’s success? Life’s Lasting Purpose. “This school changed my life,” she says. “The philosophy Dr. Sid gave us during the Dynamic Essentials seminars has kept me going over the years. I don’t think I truly realized how important those messages were until after I graduated and was exposed to chiropractors from other schools. At Life, I had the opportunity to understand how the body can heal itself. That knowledge combined with Dr. Sid’s messages were all I needed to go out and serve my community.”
As Dr. Leana’s practice continues to prosper, she feels that Americans are becoming much more conscious of the benefits of chiropractic. “There was a time when we seemed to have lost sight of what healing’s all about,” she says. “When I started my practice--and that wasn’t too long ago--people would come to me as a last resort. Now people are coming to me first, many even before they have a health problem. I help my patients maintain good health. It makes me feel good to be able to provide this service.”
The people of Atlanta obviously appreciate it, too. In 1996, Dr. Leana was presented with the Outstanding Georgia Citizen award for “outstanding service to the community.”
Patrece Frisbee
Dr. Patrece Frisbee ’93 began her chiropractic career as an associate in a Miami Beach general practice, but after one year, her extraordinary compassion brought her to the forefront of a challenging new specialty--providing chiropractic care to patients living with AIDS. “A patient of mine, an M.D., told me about his work with AIDS patients at a local facility, and I wound up spending half my time there, seeing patients,” she explains. As her interest in chiropractic and HIV care grew, she decided to move to the AIDS practice permanently. “I spoke to my colleague and explained to him that this was where I needed to be.”
An integral part of Stratogen Health of Miami Beach, a one-of-a-kind care facility, Dr. Patrece joins three internists, an acupuncturist, a massage therapist, a clinical psychologist, a case manager, and a pro bono attorney in providing intensive care for each patient’s mind and body. “The most important contribution I make is to my patients’ quality of life,” she says. “They come to me suffering from an array of side effects from the medications they’ve been given, but they leave smiling and happy. I hug all my patients, and I think that touch has a lot to do with it.”
According to Dr. Patrece, chiropractic care plays an important role in her patients’ physical and emotional health. Though no studies indicate that chiropractic can cure AIDS, recent medical and chiropractic research has demonstrated that alternative care can be an important component in the management of an HIV-patient’s illness. Increasing numbers of HIV-positive patients are now living for a decade or more with improved care. Dr. Patrece applauds Life University’s current research into the effects of chiropractic care on AIDS patients.
The number of chiropractors ready to devote their entire practice to AIDS patients remains small. In this area Dr. Patrece is a true pioneer, as well as a shining example of the relevance of Lasting Purpose--to love, to serve, to give of your abundance.
Of course, the best way to learn about Life is to experience it directly. That’s why we invite you to visit our campus and talk with us further about your life goals. We provide you with a place to stay in one of our guest condominiums, show you around campus, and set up meetings with our admissions and financial officers. You get the chance to sit in on some classes, chat with students, explore the city of Atlanta, and discover how Lasting Purpose can fit into your life. Call our admissions office at 800-543-3202 to set up a visit.
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Life Essentials
Purpose. A private, non-profit institution founded in 1974 by Dr. Sid E. Williams, Life is dedicated to preparing men and women to assume leadership roles in their professions and their communities, while developing in them a sense of Lasting Purpose that allows their innate goodness to touch everyone around them.
Campus. Featuring such picturesque highlights as a 19th-century historical village on the banks of Rottenwood Creek and a tranquil lake complete with two swans and a fountain, Life’s 100-acre, wooded campus is located in the historic suburban community of Marietta, Georgia, just 20 minutes away from downtown Atlanta. The host city for the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games, Atlanta offers the Southeast’s best professional sports and entertainment, including Braves baseball, Falcons football, Hawks basketball, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the High Museum of Art, the Fox Theater, and Six Flags Over Georgia.
Choices. Life offers a full array of programs, all of which are enhanced by the university’s emphasis on Lasting Purpose: Doctor of Chiropractic, Master of Science in Sport Health Science, Bachelor of Science in Nutrition for the Chiropractic Sciences, Bachelor of Science in Nutrition for Dietetics, Bachelor of Business Administration, and a certificate program for chiropractic technicians. Life also provides a complete pre-professional curriculum for undergraduate studies.
Community. 246 faculty members, all skilled professionals and dedicated teachers, instruct and encourage more than 4,300 students from nearly every state in the nation and 35 other countries. Over 85 percent of Life University faculty members have attained the highest degree in their respective fields.
Resources. Our 15-building campus includes our new Basic Science Center, with classrooms, modern lab facilities, and two amphitheater lecture rooms in the Chiropractic Technique Center; the Nell K. Williams Learning Resource Center, with 20,000 square feet, comfortable seating and study facilities for up to 550 students, and a capacity for as many as 100,000 volumes; the Sports Science Center, with gym, weight room, aerobics, room, sport health research facility, computer center, and sport science equipment; and the activities center, highlighted by the lakeside Treehouse Cafe, a century-old lodge used for campus dining and other university activities.
Athletics. Featuring some of the finest athletic facilities in the Southeast, Life was chosen as an official training site for the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games. Life’s varsity sports include basketball, cross- country, golf, hockey, rugby, soccer, and track and field for men, as well as cross- country for women. Intramurals include soccer, softball, tennis, and volleyball. Life also offers aerobics and weigh lifting facilities, as well as a five-mile scenic running trail.
Involvement. Life offers more than 50 service, social, professional, and fraternal organizations. These range from chiropractic technique clubs to pep band, dance squad, and cheerleaders.
Colleagues. Since it’s founding in 1974, Life has become renowned as the foremost school of chiropractic in the world. A full sixth of all chiropractors in the nation currently in practice received their degrees from Life.
Recognition. Life University is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of College and Schools (SACS). Life’s Doctor of Chiropractic program is also accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of the Council on Chiropractic Education. Life’s B.S. in Nutrition for Dietetics program is approved by the American Dietetics Association (ADA)
Cost. Approximate per-quarter tuition for the D.C. program is $3,000; for the C.T. program, $600; for undergraduate programs, $110 per credit hour; and for the graduate program, $142.86 per credit hour. Life University offers its students merit scholarships and participates in many federally funded grant and loan programs.
Admission. For specific prerequisites of our programs, please call us at 770-426-2884 or toll free at 800-543-3202; write us at Office of Admissions, Life University, 1269 Barclay Circle, Marietta, GA 30060; or type http://www.life.edu to access our web page.
In compliance with Federal and State law, Life University does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, or veteran status, and does not discriminate against qualified individuals living with a disability. This policy applies to all employment practices at Life University and to the admission and education of Life University students. Questions regarding Life University’s Non-Discrimination Policy should be directed to the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs.
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