Learning Commons

Sponsorship Opportunities

Corporations & individuals supporting the future of chiropractic education

Learning Commons Sponsorships

Secure your corporate or personal legacy

The Learning Commons offers numerous opportunities for benefactors to sponsor important spaces, equipment, technology, and environmental improvements. Donations or multi-year pledges will secure your legacy in the academic heart of the campus.
To discuss these or additional sponsorship opportunities, contact the Office of Institutional Advancement at (510) 780-4500,ext. 2060 or email thyland@lifewest.edu.

Students studying in the Life West Library

$50,000 Learning Commons Concourse

The Learning Commons Concourse is the single largest component of the transformed space. It is the heart of the new educational dynamics that allow and encourage group and collaborative learning. The Concourse features furniture and infrastructure that allows for flexible configurations to accommodate teaching and learning needs.

$50,000 Computer Corral

This area is the technical center of the Learning Commons. It allows for banks of up to 24 computers as well as numerous separate wired and wireless individual study areas. The Computer Corral is ideal for both large and intimate teaching, learning, and testing activities.

$50,000 Digital Dissection Table by Anatomage

Underwrite one of the most sophisticated and high technology devices on campus. A digital Dissection Table by Anatomage will enable students to electronically access all of the systems of the human body on a high resolution screen. The presence of the Anatomage Table in the Learning Commons will allow virtual and remote instruction, realtime and on-demand classes, and on-site testing.

$25,000 Well Adjusted Cafe

The cafe allows for both a respite from long study sessions as well as a comfortable area for solitary study while enjoying a refreshing beverage. It is an integrated aspect of a learning commons environment that encourages scholarly interaction among students and faculty.

$15,000 – Co-sponsor Group Study Room (7 available)

Co-sponsor an existing study room previously underwritten by a legacy sponsor. Share naming rights with the previous sponsor but also be noted for your role in upgrading these areas with the required technology and tools for advanced group study such as high-tech whiteboard and flexible furnishings.

$10,000 – Head Librarian’s Office

The Head Librarian is the leading heart, voice, and mind propelling the Learning Commons. The office represents the acknowledgement of the Head Librarian as the key to the academic success of all who utilize the new Learning Commons facilities.

$7,500 – Artworks on acoustic panels (5 Available)

Add to the ambiance of the Learning Commons by sponsoring oversize artwork pieces on acoustic panels. These functional decorative pieces will provide both a soothing visual atmosphere and help control the noise levels throughout the area.

$5,000 Staff Offices (3 Available)

Support the staff who support the students, faculty, and alumni. Ensure these spaces have the adequate technical capability to serve the chiropractic community.

The Chiropractic Museum at Life Chiropractic College West

$100,000 – Opportunity to have The Chiropractic Museum at Life Chiropractic College West bear the name of any individual, corporation, or organization in good standing with the college for a period of 10 years.
$50,000 – Museum Annex Gallery – The main corridor from the Sid Square at the heart of the campus gives way to the entrance to the Learning Commons through a gallery with rotating exhibits of chiropractic artifacts.

$25,000 – Mural depicting the history of chiropractic. Painted by a well-known Bay Area artist, Dan Fontes, who is most-well-known for the twelve, life-size giraffes painted on the 580 interchange structure in Oakland.

$20,000 – D. D. Palmer Replica Office – Based on a photograph of D. D. Palmer sitting in his office chair in the Ryan Building, Davenport, Iowa .

$15,000 – Life West History Corner
A collection of memorabilia from the founding of the college in 1976 by George E. Anderson and through its 35 year history.

$10,000 – Chiropractic Spinal Correction Tables
A collection of more than a dozen different adjusting tables dating from the early 1920’s and into the 1950s that demonstrate the evolving ingenuity of the profession.

$5,000 Artifact Collections

Select a sponsorship opportunity from among the historical artifacts The Chiropractic Museum has collected to tell the colorful and inventive story of chiropractic. Sponsorship opportunities include:

  • Three of more than eight-thousand, one-of-a-kind celebrity photographs that were displayed in the B.J. Palmer Clinic, Davenport Iowa. Each photograph is autographed by the celebrity and inscribed with a note of appreciation to B.J.
  • An unbroken, 1903 X-ray tube. After its discovery in 1895 (coincidental with the discovery of chiropractic the same year) the x-ray became a standard diagnostic tool of the chiropractic profession following its introduction to the profession by B.J. Palmer.
  • A one-of-a-kind Slogan poster from the 1930s.
  • A collection of dozens of different types of heat-reading instruments first invented in the 1920s. More modern versions are in use today as diagnostic instruments to detect spinal misalignment.
  • A collection of the thirty-nine first and second edition volumes of “Green” books that describe the science and philosophy of chiropractic.
  • A 100-year-old human skeleton, a skull and several human vertebra and bones that were used as student-learning and patient education tools.