June 6, 2006 witnessed an historic event when the Council on Chiropractic Education (CCE) petitioned for renewal of recognition by the United States Department of Education (USDE). It was said that the USDE had never had so many people attend a hearing before. Individuals and representatives from several organizations provided testimony including:
The International Chiropractors Association
The Federation of Chiropractic Licensing Boards
The American Chiropractic Association
The National Board of Chiropractic Examiners
The Association of Chiropractic Colleges
Current and Past Chiropractic College Presidents
The Georgia Chiropractic Council
Doctors for Excellence in Chiropractic Education
The World Chiropractic Alliance
Practicing Chiropractors
Former Chiropractic Students
The transcripts of the proceedings provide evidence of a deeply splintered, paranoid, untrusting, embittered and incestuous profession. We reprint these transcripts in the hope that they will play a role in the development of a dialogue that the profession is in desperate need of having.
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