July 4, 2002

Joseph Brimhall, D.C., Chair, CCE Commission on Accreditation

Dear Dr. Brimhall,

I am sending this e-mail as an Open Letter to over 9000 chiropractors within 31 countries.

I am a 1978 graduate of Life College of Chiropractic, and a previous adjunct teacher of Life 
University, College of Chiropractic from 1995 until 1999. I, like many of my colleagues, 
have been dismayed by the dramatic events that have befallen LUCC. This letter is an 
appeal to the Board of the Council on Chiropractic Education.

Life University has been an accredited institution by the Commission on Accreditation 
(COA) of the Council on Chiropractic Education (CCE) for 25 years. The present LUCC 
infrastructure is first class with a faculty is in place to train excellent chiropractors within 
the accepted protocols established by your organization. Thousands of students are 
dependent on the administration of LUCC to create a learning environment and a 
professional atmosphere towards graduation. Obviously, the CCE has disagreed with the 
established LUCC administration and the learning process, and after a year of probation, 
has denied accredited status. The profound effect on the student body, faculty, staff and 
community as a whole is immense.

As of the date of this letter, Dr. Sid Williams has resigned from the presidency and has 
relinquished control of the school management. The LUCC Board of Trustees is in the 
process of replacing this position and will hopefully find a strong management team. There 
is discussion of a merger with another accredited school, and an appeal process that may 
keep the school accredited until November, 2002. Both seem short term and may prove no 
less an answer for ongoing accreditation as a LUCC.  

Although the vast majority of chiropractors are not privy to the exact nature of LUCC¼s 
transgressions due to confidentiality, the profound effect of your removing accreditation for 
LUCC is. This is uncharted waters for all concerned.

I understand that the policies and procedures in place with the COA and CCE may have no 
provisions to allow reaccredidation, even after the appeal. But, this should be reconsidered. 
I recommend that an unprecedented, as is the loss of accreditation since the CCE has been 
established, extension of the probation for a twelve months period be established for 
LUCC. This will allow the new administration to implement the necessary changes to 
comply with CCE standards, and maintain the LUCC campus, faculty and student body 
with the accreditation status necessary to place them within the ranks of our honored 
profession. This extension, though unprecedented, may be the best way to salvage these 
dire circumstances for all concerned.

I appeal to your board with my humble suggestion. 

Yours in Health and Wisdom,

Joel E. Margolies, DC
4910 LaVista Road
Tucker, Georgia 30084