Florida higher ed board kills FSU chiropractic school

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON 
Associated Press 
January 27 2005
GAINESVILLE -- Florida's higher education board killed a proposed
chiropractic school at Florida State University on Thursday, saying the
program was pushed by lawmakers instead of the university's faculty and
administration.

The 10-3 vote by the Board of Governors ended a contentious debate and
dashed the chiropractic world's hopes of seeing the first chiropractic
school open at an American public university.

Florida State President T.K. Wetherell said he would have liked to have
seen the school open, but doesn't plan to continue to push for it.

``We've had a difficult time discussing the merits of the proposal at a
number of different stops. It's been frustrating, very frustrating,''
Wetherell said.

The project has been ridiculed by FSU's faculty, who say chiropractic
medicine is a pseudoscience. The chiropractic community has been pushing
for the school for at least a decade and the issue has been watched
nationally.

The project began last year when the Legislature put $9 million in the
state budget for a school.