ALCP students enjoy the full benefits of university life. The Phoenix metro area is now the sixth largest and the fastest growing city in the United States. The fifty square miles of Itasca State Park offer an unusual variety of aquatic and upland habitats that remain unpolluted and relatively undisturbed. Summer 2001 classes include ornithology, ecology, botany, field biology photography, arctic field ecology, limnology, parasitology, animal behavior, telemetry, insect diversity, conservation biology, and flowering plant systematics. Both rural and city campuses, set in beautiful New Brunswick.
Many campuses are either coastal or along large rivers, adding to their attraction.
Graduates are eligible for New York state licensure and national certification as acupuncturists. The neighborhood s Romanesque facades have been restored, preserving the beauty of the buildings, the last of the preskyscraper era. This allows the Pacific graduate to select the therapeutic methods in harmony with their interests and those most appropriate for the patient. Externships are available to New York students at Fortune Society, Healing Works, Grand Meridian Clinic Women s Prison Association and Yonkers Hospital. Pacific College, New York, the city s first accredited school of Oriental Medicine, is located in the historic Flatiron District of Manhattan.