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Life University—Fulfilling a Vision
Life University is the only institution of higher education in the world based on eight core life proficiencies . Including integrity, citizenship, leadership, critical thinking and several others, these core proficiencies are the foundation for Life's graduates' success in several health care professions.
Life's Eight Core Proficiencies
In conjunction with providing health care degree programs, Life University is committed to delivering an education designed around a set of core proficiencies that advance personal integrity and provide the foundation for professional success, social contribution and cultural change. These proficiencies distinguish a Life University education.
Integrity and Citizenship
Integrity provides the underpinning for the responsible exercise of our rights and responsibilities as human beings. Integrity leads to empowerment and excellence, while a lack of integrity results in mediocrity. Life University teaches students how to manage personal integrity and function as valued citizens within the academic, health care and larger communities.
Leadership and Entrepreneurship
Extensive research available today outlines the hallmarks of effective leadership. Life University draws on this body of knowledge and teaches students how to apply it in an entrepreneurial setting to build a successful business or organization.
Learning Theory/Critical Thinking
Life University engages students in critical thinking by teaching them how to gather meaningful data, synthesize new information with existing knowledge, think independently and search for practical application of their knowledge in professional practice and daily life. We exhort our students to not only learn skills, but to become innovators who contribute positively to their communities.
Contemporary Scientific Paradigms
For thousands of years and especially since Sir Isaac Newton, humankind's scientific understanding of the functioning of the universe has been based largely on a mechanistic model. Contemporary quantum physics opens the door to a much more vitalistic understanding of human dynamics. Life University will expose our students to the implications of these models especially as they apply to research in health care.
Philosophy of Human Existence and Health Care Policy
Health care systems evolve from health care philosophies. Although our most institutionalized systems today revolve around a mechanistic view of health, Life University sees value in a vitalistic view of human function. With a growing body of evidence to support vitalistic concepts in the health care milieu, Life University will help spearhead changes that will revolutionize our nation's approach to health care. Our faculty will clearly identify these key issues for students and teach them how to evaluate new information and direct professional dialogues that will lead to new health care policy.
Communication and Relationship Theory/Skills
An ability to communicate effectively and the capacity for building relationships with others are critical factors in personal, business and life success. These skills can be developed. Life University will challenges its students to develop and utilize the skills of effective listening, empathy, interpersonal skills and public speaking to create clear communications and foster meaningful professional relationships with members of the public, patients, colleagues, and key opinion leaders.
Belief Systems and Performance
Life University exposes its students to a range of contemporary intellectual approaches and technologies that will help them reach higher levels of performance and professional success. Students will learn criteria by which to judge the usefulness of certain technologies and their applicability to their learning styles.
Integrative Change
Because change is one of the few constants in today's professional environments, an educated person must learn how to evaluate, plan for, and effectively use the element of change to impact controlled differences in the world. Life University exposes students to tested theories and concepts to help them evaluate their usefulness. Students will also learn how people integrate and accept new philosophies and skills for communicating new concepts of health care.
Life History
Life College was founded as a school of chiropractic in 1974 with a first class of 22 students.
Today, with more than 12,000 alumni, Life University, under the leadership of President Guy F. Riekeman and a fully committed Board of Trustees, the college has expanded to a complete university that provides a doctor of chiropractic degree as well as a full array of undergraduate and master's degrees. Life University, with its eight core proficiences, is setting a standard of excellence in higher education.
Life University’s 90-acre campus in Marietta, Ga., the largest and arguably the most beautiful and best equipped in the profession, also has a rich history. Nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, it was once part of the "Gold Region" of the state occupied by the Cherokee Indians.
Today this historic site is a beautiful campus, replete with a stadium, two gymnasiums, a quarter-mile Olympic track, a complete wellness center and other recreational facilities and amenities.
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