West Coast University (WCU) is a private, revenue driven college concentrated on medicinal services degrees, grounds areas incorporate Los Angeles, Anaheim and Ontario, California, Dallas, Texas, and Miami, Florida. It is not identified with a school of the same name working out of Panama. David Pyle established American Career College in 1979 under the name of American College of Optics. Initially the school concentrated just on optical administering. In May 1997, Mr. Pyle bought West Coast University, which was established in 1909, out of chapter 11 and added to a system for the preparation of enlisted medical caretakers.
History
West Coast University was established in Los Angeles in 1909 as a little ophthalmology school. Throughout the following 50 years, its system offerings shifted from aeronautical designing, connected sciences and arithmetic to train diesel motor repairs. As it grew, West Coast University got to be one of the trailblazers in offering four year college education programs intended to address the issues of working grown-ups to help their professions. These projects were offered in non-customary settings. For instance, in 1953, the University started offering evening-just projects in view of a calendar of six two-month scholastic terms. The achievement of this methodology drove the University to extend and broaden its projects to incorporate offerings in the regions of business and administration, software engineering, mechanical innovation, and pre-wellbeing science. Partner degrees in Science and also graduate degree projects were presented in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1981, the University revamped into three unmistakable schools: the College of Business and Management, the College of Engineering, and the College of Letters and Sciences. The University was driven by the late Dr. Victor Elconin, whose course was instrumental in adding to the University's strong notoriety in the business and scholastic group.
In May 1997, WCU was redesigned under the authority of its present Chairman, David Pyle . The new administration group was focused on refocusing the foundation's putting forth of projects to those that were most elevated sought after and would be most useful to working grown-ups. Thusly, instructing social insurance experts turned into the University's particular center in 2004. Just four years after the fact, West Coast University turned into the main secretly held exclusive college in California endorsed to offer a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing. The next year, in 2009, the University accomplished extra automatic accreditation for the Bachelor of Science in Nursing program at their California grounds from the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE). That same year, WCU was honored starting accreditation by the Commission on Dental Accreditation (CODA) to offer a Bachelor of Science Degree in Dental Hygiene in Orange County. WCU's Dental Hygiene project is one of just 4 CODA-licensed four year college education in Dental Hygiene programs offered in California. West Coast University picked Henry Schein to plan another dental cleanliness showing office in its Anaheim, California grounds which opened its entryways on April 13, 2009.
West Coast University's Los Angeles grounds got endorsement in 2010 to recompense Master of Science degrees in Nursing and Health Care Management. That same year, the propelled Simulation Center for Nursing opened at the Orange County grounds. The Simulation Center is incorporated with the nursing educational modules and components high-loyalty mannequins that copy human reactions and current social insurance innovation in sensible patient consideration settings. After a year, Simulation Centers were opened in the Los Angeles and Ontario grounds.
West Coast University has been a member in the Yellow Ribbon GI Education Enhancement Program (Yellow Ribbon Program or YRP) since 2010.
In 2011, the University accomplished institutional accreditation through the WASC Senior College and University Commission.
West Coast University opened a grounds in Dallas, Texas in 2012. WCU-Dallas is situated in the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex, highlights a Simulation Center, and is the University's first Texas grounds. That same year the Master of Science in Nursing degree got extra accreditation by CCNE, Commission on Collegiete Nursing Education.
One outstanding graduate of WCU is Greg Jarvis, one of the space explorers on the Space Shuttle Challenger. He was planned to get his confirmation, for an administration science degree, on the van, and would have been the main individual to get a degree in space. To respect his memory, West Coast University after death granted Jarvis with a recognized former student grant on May 15, 2011. The University likewise offers a grant in Jarvis' name.
In 2013, West Coast University propelled Global Public Health programs. Today understudies have set out to Panama, Costa Rica, Belize, Moldova, and Argentina. West Coast University's Los Angeles grounds got endorsement by WASC for a Master of Science in Occupational Therapy, Doctor of Physical Therapy, and Doctor of Pharmacy projects. In 2014, the MSOT, DPT and PharmD projects were propelled.
In 2014, West Coast University opened its most current grounds in Miami, Florida. WCU Miami highlights a Simulation Center and is the college's first Florida grounds. The grounds offers BSN and LPN to BSN degrees. These projects are affirmed by the Florida Board of Nursing. WCUs guardian organization bought Contemporary Forums, a pioneer in proceeding with training for medical caretakers. West Coast University and American Career College graduates are all qualified for continuous CE rebates through Contemporary Forums. In 2015, WCU propelled the 100% on the web, 12-month RN to BSN, 24 month RN to MSN and 24 month MSN programs.
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