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current climate in the Black, Indigenous, and People of Color community (BIPOC). Additionally, the D&I Committee held a virtual symposium during Friday Seminar introducing the framework that will guide the college over the coming years, create awareness of the committee and its purpose, and invite students to actively foster systemic change on campus. The Community Service Committee has also been hard at work, coming up with several ideas on how to serve Hayward and surrounding areas in order to give back to the communities students STUDENT COUNCIL EXECUTIVES: ARMONI RIVERS, JULIA ROSE, SOPHIA GRANDSTAFF, SAGI HEBRON call home, while incubating and learning the way of the Chiropractor. In collaboration with the campus bookstore, the Student Council has created a The Life West Strategic Plan is a “great opportunity quarterly contest in which students submit designs for us all at Life Chiropractic College West to for Life West gear. The winning design will be learn, think, collaborate and grow. This strategic produced and sold in the bookstore with 100% of plan is not just a dream or a vision. It is a roadmap the proceeds going to a local charity that aligns with that will guide Life West as we embark on the next our ethos of Lasting Purpose. The goal is to create development phase,” said Dr. Ron Oberstein when relationships throughout the community that Life the plan was launched in 2019. The current plan is West can foster for years to come. focused on always enhancing graduate outcomes Student clubs have also been encouraged to and the student experience, and on setting the develop their own ideas. Equality Council holds college up to continue to thrive into the future, another very successful regular event on the all while remaining grounded in our core value of weekends. They select a spot, gather together, Lasting Purpose - to Give, pick up trash, and talk Do, Love and Serve from to passing community Our current plan is focused on always one’s own Abundance. members about enhancing graduate outcomes and the student Key to the success Chiropractic. Another experience, and on setting the college up to of the plan is student very successful event continue to thrive into the future, all while involvement. Deep in was held by the Student remaining grounded in our core value of Lasting Council in February. the implementation of Purpose - to Give, Do, Love and Serve from these strategic initiatives The Life West student one’s own Abundance. are the Student Council body partners with President Sagi Hebron Oklahaven Children’s and Vice President Sophia Grandstaff. As they Chiropractic Center every February for the annual were discussing updating the Student Council Have-A-Heart Campaign, and 2021 was the most Constitution, it became apparent that something successful fundraising year to date! Once again was missing. Basing their approach off of the the college received the winning Golden Heart Lasting Purpose values, they asked each other, Award with a record collection amount. “what is it that we’re actually doing as part of Our students have shown that they are the plan?” The answer - not much. From this committed to sharing the responsibility fundamental question arose a clear path of action. for achieving the initiatives outlined in the Student Council identified the two Strategic Strategic Plan. They are intent on creating a Initiatives in which they could have the most campus culture that embraces diversity and impact and committed to taking action by revising inclusion and celebrates service within and the Student Council Constitution to include outside of the college. Their example shows committees in Community Service and Diversity that Lasting Purpose is not just etched on the and Inclusion. campus walls; more importantly, it is sewn An initial event of the Student Council and D&I into the fibers of the souls that give their time Committee recently took place in the form of a virtual at the college to serve humanity out of their community forum to provide space for discussion own abundance. around recent violence towards the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities, and the
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