History
Life University was founded within 1974 by Dr. Sid Williams as Life Chiropractic College. the university was established on the places of a placer gold mine. Twenty-22 students attended a foremost classes within January, 1975; but by 1990, a school experienced grown to be the big college of chiropractic in the globe. [http://www.life.edu/newlife/geninfo/siteinfo/historic_site.html]

Controversy
In June 7, 2002, the Commissiin on Accreditation of the Council on Chiropractic Education (CCE) revoked Life University's accreditation. Within an article on the chiropractic site [http://www.chirobase.org Chirobase], Stephen Barrett speculated that "Life students were not being taught how to detect and deal with problems that require medical attention." [http://www.chirobase.org/03Edu/revocation.html] A actual citations leading to revocation were non revealed to the public. Previous students & graduates of the university stand, all the same, came forward to claim that Dr. Williams' philosophy was such that about each case of patients' painful sensation & discomfort "are caused by subluxations and warrant chiropractic treatment." [http://www.chirobase.org/03Edu/botnick2.html] A university, along by using Dynamic Essentials (Dr. Williams' chiropractic practice), hwhen likewise been cited by a bit of as using cult-like techniques. [http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2004/10/attention-life-alums-cult-expert-wants.html] Among victims world health organization've mass produced a charge is Steven Alan Hassan of the Freedom of Mind Center.

Dr. Williams resigned when President of Life University as a straight effect of this incident, & a corporate board which experienced governed a university was dissolved. Michael J. Schmidt was appointive President to succeed Dr. Williams inside August, 2002. a subsequent appeal saved the accreditation good until October of that year, however by November enrollment at the school got plummeted to 865 students. Inside the cause filed by Life against CCE in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Judge Charles E. Moye, Jr. granted an injunctiin on February 10, 2003 retroactively restoring Life's accreditation. [http://www.life.edu/new_president/despain021103.html] Because a injunction was retro, Life's accreditation profits never ceased, though this has non eventually dispelled a disputation.

In August 30, 2004, Dr. Sid Williams & Life University settled causa which got been filed against of these a second, & Dr. Williams subsquently returned to association using a university. [http://www.braile.net/TIA/2004_September_a_TIA.htm] Dr. Williams appeared prior to a Georgia Council of Chiropractic in September 11, 2004 to appeal for donations and trend lines in the university's endeavour to be re-licensed per Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Life University's accreditatiin by having a Southern Association of Colleges & Schools (SACS) was reaffirmed on December 7, 2004. A University is accredited across 2011.