Financial pressure, enrollment declines and institutional challenges are emerging at several U.S. chiropractic colleges. Life Chiropractic College West's and Life University's struggles may be the most talked about but appear to be part of a larger story. And with recent USDE requirements threatening to hamstring federal student financing for DC degree programs, chiropractic education is facing questions for which it has no immediate answers.
| Digital ExclusiveH. Gordon Ainsleigh, DC, CCN
Dr. H. Gordon Ainsleigh, a 1983 graduate of Western States University, is an active trail runner, rock climber and bicyclist at age 73 who lives with his wife, Paula, a fitness professional, in the Sierra foothills community of Meadow Vista in Northern California. In his semi-retirement, he has two careers: chiropractic health care and tree work (shaping and removal, fire-safe clearing, firewood). He authored the first literature review study on the cancer-preventing effects of sun exposure published in a peer-reviewed medical journal (PMID: 8475009).