1/30/08

Laura Chadwick Weeks, DC, Sherman College's vice president for planning, assessment, and enrollment services has been elected to the Commission on Accreditation of the Council on Chiropractic Education (COA/CCE). Weeks was elected as the Commission’s CCE accredited program employee representative.

The COA/CCE enforces and interprets the Council on Chiropractic standards, determining if colleges meet the standards. The commission also organizes and serves on accreditation site visit teams.

Her 3-year term began at the conclusion of the COA meeting on January 20. Weeks served the COA executive committee as chair from 2003-2006 and served COA member terms from 2000-2003 and 2006-2007.

In addition to her service on the COA/CCE, Weeks is a member of the South Carolina Women in Higher Education Administration. Before being appointed vice president for planning, assessment, and enrollment at Sherman, she served the college as vice president for academic affairs and as dean of chiropractic health services. She is a 1990 graduate of Sherman College and received the Distinguished Alumnus award in 1997 and Service to Sherman College award in 2000. She also holds a bachelor of science in business from Winthrop University and has completed graduate courses in business administration at Clemson University.

[www.sherman.edu, January 28, 2008]