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Brad Pizza Georgia Council of Chiropractic and CCE

The following is part of our 2007 Chiropractic History Month coverage. This content comes from transcripts, provided by the World Chiropractic Association (WCA), regarding June 6, 2006 proceedings that took place in Arlington, Virginia. Chiropractor, Brad Pizza, speaks regarding the Council on Chiropractic education.

United States Department of Education Transcripts

The following is part of our 2007 Chiropractic History Month coverage. This content comes from transcripts, provided by the World Chiropractic Association (WCA), regarding June 6, 2006 proceedings that took place in Arlington, Virginia. Chiropractor, Brad Pizza, speaks regarding the Council on Chiropractic education.

Chairperson D’amico: Thank you very much. Mr. Pizza, President, Georgia Council of Chiropractic–Chiropractic something.

Dr. Pizza: Yes. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and thank you for allowing us this opportunity as a profession to come to the United States Department of Education as a body that can help to perhaps shed some light on some issues that are going on in our profession today. I’m an alumni of Life College, a 1983 graduate. I have two active practices in Atlanta, Georgia, and I represent three to 400 doctors of chiropractic as the president of our State association. I have been very, very involved with the activities at Life University from its onset in 1983 when I became a graduate.

We have found that when the students were told that their accreditation had been voided, the entire State of Georgia was devastated as far as the chiropractic profession was concerned. This is a committee that’s out of control, ladies and gentlemen. They policed the chiropractic profession as if it’s a German Nazi investigation of people and lives. The Georgia chiropractors want this board to know the things that happened at Life University in 2002 were deplorable. There was one reason for the largest chiropractic college in the world to have its accreditation revoked. The devastating effect that it had on the community of Atlanta, on the State of Georgia and the students that were at that college, it’s unbelievable how far the reach that may go today. I would like to just read a few principal points. The revocation of the accreditation of Life University was devastating to the faculty and the students and the community. Dr. Brimhall was the chairman of the CCE, COA at the time, and is responsible to guide the commission, not destroy a college that we took so long to build. The decision resulted in two lawsuits. The decision was overturned at the Federal level. Lawsuits are now settled and the accreditation is restored and now Brimhall is the President of the CCE.

The CCE needs to be reformed, ladies and gentlemen. The one thing I’d like you to leave with this afternoon is to let you know that Life University produced the most chiropractic students in the country, they got an excellent education, and they were able to go to every State and pass every licensure that was asked of them, and they did it wonderfully. The educational institute of Life University bar none was magnificent. We graduated students that went on to become very successful doctors and took care of thousands and thousands of patients, and one organization decided that that institution didn’t have to be. Was it professional jealousy? Was it motivated by money? I ask this board. I’m not a politician, nor am I someone in the educational field. There are many people in this room that have more expertise than I do, but I’d like to let you know, ladies and gentlemen, That the education at Life University that those students were receiving at that time had absolutely nothing to do with the loss of that accreditation, and I would like someone in this room to investigate that further. The CCE has manipulated the system and I think it’s time they need an adjustment. Thank you for your time.

Event History: Tuesday, June 6, 2006
Hilton Arlington Hotel Arlington, Virginia 22203

United States Department of Education Office of Postsecondary Education
National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality And Integrity

The Council on Chiropractic Education, Commission on Accreditation
Action for Consideration: Petition for Renewal of Recognition
Transcripts of Proceedings*

Complete transcripts have been made available via the WCA JVSR CCE Transcripts
PDF Complete 36 Page Document: PDF CCE 2007 Transcripts

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