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The Office of the Provost
The Office of the Provost leads SCU’s academic and student affairs in collaboration with deans, program directors and department heads.
Tamara Rozhon, EdD Provost
As Provost, Dr. Tamara Rozhon oversees marketing, admissions, student affairs, alumni affairs, campus operations, and academic affairs. She also serves as a member of the National Academies of Medicine Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professions Education and as a commissioner to the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities.
Dr. Rozhon holds an EdD in Higher Education Administration from the University of Pennsylvania, a Master of Adult Education from National-Louis University, and a Bachelor of Arts cum laude in Journalism from Northern Illinois University.
Dr. Rozhon has over 30 years of experience in higher education, including 25+ years as a senior administrator. Throughout her career, Dr. Rozhon has built a reputation as a change agent with a focus on healthcare education and training. She is deeply committed to ensuring that SCU graduates are competent healthcare professionals who understand the value of integrative, whole-person health and interprofessional collaboration. Her tenure is marked by her ability to challenge the status quo, encouraging growth and innovation while ensuring that every decision aligns with SCU’s mission of transforming the future of healthcare and healthcare education.
Dr. Rozhon’s professional path includes her role in establishing the TCS Education System, where she helped grow a legacy single-purpose professional psychology school into a multi-campus system of independently accredited colleges. She has overseen geographic and program expansion across the United States; developed international partnerships in China and South America; and served through multiple mergers and acquisitions in the higher education space. As president of Carrington College and executive dean of the health sciences division of the University of Phoenix, Dr. Rozhon led large, geographically diverse institutions with hundreds of employees. Early in her career, she worked as a community college faculty member, where she developed a passion for adult education, which has remained central to her leadership philosophy: creating opportunities for students, staff, and faculty to grow and succeed on their own terms.
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About the Provost’s Office
The Office is committed to providing the resources and services necessary to promote student success; to offering relevant, high-quality programs that prepare students for a future healthcare career; and to supporting our faculty inside and outside of the classroom.
SCU Value Statement
In alignment with SCU values, we are committed to maintaining a community that reflects, embraces, and values the breadth of diversity. We value people’s health equally and want all individuals and communities to have a fair and just opportunity to be healthy. These commitments and values are prominent in the SCU community.
Student Support
We are committed to helping our students reach their personal and professional goals. We believe that success is more than a GPA. It is the full integration of physical, mental, and spiritual well-being. Students are provided resources and services to promote health and well-being, foster resilience, and support academic success.
Clinical Education
We value the important role of teamwork in improving patient outcomes. Clinical experiences begin early and engage students in the skills and mindset needed to become successful patient-centered healthcare providers. Students are taught to understand different health practices, healthcare platforms, and cultural influences on health and wellness and their influence on the delivery of healthcare.
Faculty Scholarship
At Southern California University of Health Sciences, we are deeply focused on training students to be competent and caring healthcare professionals and practitioners, and we’ve done this for over a century. Consistent with SCU’s value of “Evidence-Based,” all students are taught to be informed consumers of the literature consistent with their level of training and degree.
SCU’s faculty are scholar-practitioners, bridging the worlds of clinical and professional practice and the classroom, on behalf of patients, clients, and students. SCU faculty and students engage in the scholarship of integration, engagement/application, teaching, and discovery, consistent with the Boyer Model.
Major Initiatives & Programs
- Chiropractic: Fall 2023 self-study, Spring 2024 site-visit
- Occupational Therapy (CA): Fall 2023 self-study, Fall 2024 site-visit
- Ayurveda: Fall 2023 self-study, 2024 site-visit
- Occupational Therapy (AZ): Spring 2024 WSCUC proposal and Spring 2024 Application for Accreditor Candidacy
- New Proposed Program 1: Spring 2024 WSCUC Screening and Spring 2024 Application for Accreditor Candidacy
- Eastern Medicine: Spring 2024 self-study, Fall 2024 site-visit
- New Proposed Program 2: Summer 2024 WSCUC Screening
SCU announces the launch of two new academic programs in 2024: The Doctor of Medical Science (link), and the Doctor of Whole Health Leadership (link). The Doctor of Medical Science is a full online, terminal degree available for Physician Assistants interested in furthering careers in health education and health leadership. The Doctor of Whole Health Leadership is a cutting-edge program in whole health, leadership, and system change for clinicians, healthcare leaders, and healthcare educators, developed in partnership with the Academy of Integrative Health & Medicine. Both new programs continue to establish SCU’s position as a leader in whole-person, integrative healthcare.
The Provost Council
Jim Brenner
Executive Director of Demand Generation and Portfolio Strategy
Dina Schenk, M.S.
Executive Director of Brand Strategy & Communications
Vickie Sapien
Executive Assistant for the Provost
Michael Ramcharan, MD, DC, EdD
Vice-Provost, Assistant Vice President of Academic Affairs
Shelby Gugel
Associate Vice President of Student & Alumni Services
Jonathon Egan, DC, PhD
Assistant Vice President, Academic Administration
Meghan Chandler
Associate Vice President, Online Education
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