How do you define health?
If you eat well, exercise regularly and maintain a recommended weight, are you healthy? If your blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar are within normal limits, are you healthy?
Now, what if you tear a ligament? Develop arthritis? Begin to lose your hearing? What if you develop adult-onset asthma? Get a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis? Suffer a paralyzing injury? Are you still healthy?
We’re here to demonstrate that there’s no reason you can’t be.
At the UIC College of Applied Health Sciences, we define health as more than the absence of illness, disease or disability. We believe people can enjoy health participation in life, whatever their circumstances. And we’re working every day to prove just that.
AHS is multidisciplinary community of health science educators, researchers, scholars and advocates who contribute to the health and well-being of people, particularly those living in urban environments.
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4 th largest college at UIC
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38 minors, degrees and certificates
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129 Full-time faculty (FTE)
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1,075 undergraduate students
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589 graduate students
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275 professional students
View the 2023-24 AHS Annual Report
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View and download a PDF version of the 2023-24 AHS Annual Report.
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The College of Applied Health Sciences is a socially conscious, research-intensive academic community whose mission is to broaden understanding of applied health sciences and disability. We strive to identify and meet the health needs of our society and pursue our mission by:
- Educating health professionals and scholars who excel in a complex, multicultural world;
- Discovering and translating new knowledge that transforms health care practice, social systems and related technologies for the benefit of individuals, families and communities;
- Collaborating with our urban community partners in mutually beneficial ways;
- Providing health services of the highest quality with emphasis on eliminating health disparities affecting individuals and communities; and
- Advocating for public policies, perceptions, and practices that lead to the inclusion and participation of people with disabilities in society.
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The UIC College of Applied Health Sciences will be recognized as a national and international leader in health science through our excellence in preparing highly qualified professionals, leading scholars and community leaders. Our scholarly, academic efforts and community engagement will transform society through improved health, inclusion and participation without discrimination in a complex interdisciplinary and multicultural world.
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In addition to UIC’s core values of excellence, opportunity, discovery, resilience, transformation, service, courage and honesty, we are guided by our unique core values of passion, curiosity, innovation, flexibility, commitment, inclusion and diversity.
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Flexibility in how we achieve our aspirations
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Commitment to serving our students and communities
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Passion about our research, teaching and helping those we serve
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Curiosity about ideas that may lead to new discoveries
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Innovation in turning discoveries into practical applications
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Inclusion through accessible programs and environments
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Diversity in reaching out to individuals from diverse backgrounds
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The College of Applied Health Sciences is governed in its internal administration by its faculty. The faculty establishes the goals and academic policies of the college. The college Executive Committee and other councils and committees act on behalf of the faculty.
The dean is the highest ranking administrative officer in the college and the department heads are responsible for the resources allocated or assigned to their administrative department.
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