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Alliant International University
Motto:	"Rich in history, diverse by nature"
Established	2001
Type:	Private, Non-Profit
President:	Geoffrey M. Cox, Ph.D.
Students:	3,600
Undergraduates:	332
Postgraduates:	3,070
Location
Campuses in::	Fresno,CA, US Irvine, CA, US Los Angeles, CA, US Sacramento, CA, US San Francisco, CA, US San Diego, CA, US Beijing, China Hong Kong, China Mexico City, Mexico Tokyo, Japan
Colors:	orange and gold
Mascot:	Mountain lion
Affiliations:	Presidio School of Management, Rockway Institute, Violence Prevention Institute
Website:	http://www.alliant.edu

Alliant International University is an independent, not-for-profit,university formed in July 2001 as a result of a merger between California School of Professional Psychology (CSPP) and United States International University (USIU). The University is accredited by the Accrediting Commission for Senior Colleges and Universities of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC).

Contents 1 Academic Schools and Centers 2 History 2.1 California School of Professional Psychology 2.2 United States International University 2.2.1 Athletics 2.3 Marshall Goldsmith School of Management 2.4 Graduate School of Education 3 External links

• California School of Professional Psychology
• Marshall Goldsmith School of Management
• Graduate School of Education
• Center for Undergraduate Education, offers a degree-completion program for students in the last two years of their bachelor's degrees at the San Diego Campus and the English-language degree programs at the Mexico City Campus
• Center for Forensic Studies

California School of Professional Psychology (CSPP), was founded by the California Psychological Association in 1969 as the first freestanding school of professional psychology, and remains the largest school of professional psychology in California. Over thirty schools throughout the US now use the school's training model to develop professional psychologists.

Many view academic freedom as including a student's right to express a reasoned disagreement with teaching or philosophy. The heads of CSPP are wise enought to know that academic freedom legally gives them the ability to suppress dissent and does nothing to protect the lone voice of opposition on campus. It is a bizarre perversion, in many, ways of a legal standard that was set to safeguard intellectual freedom. Legally, the "academic freedom" allows graduate programs to remove students which are ideologically different. Without making any specific allegations, it is apparent that the program coordinators at Alliant are aware of these legal issues.

The school has trained approximately half of the licensed psychologists in California. Today the school offers degree programs in clinical psychology, marriage and family therapy, counseling psychology, organizational psychology, and psychopharmacology at campuses in San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Fresno, Sacramento, Irvine, abroad in Tokyo and Mexico City, and online.

The San Francisco campus is home to an post-doctoral masters program in psychopharmacology that is on the forefront of advancing prescription privilege for psychologists. In 2004, the American Psychological Association Division 18 (Psychologists in Public Service) selected the psychopharmacology program to train 100 public service psychologists to prescribe psychotrophic medications. On February 18, 2005, the first civilian psychologist to write a drug prescription in the U.S. state of Louisiana was a CSPP graduate and current faculty member. CSPP has had a number of disgruntled students over the years. One website featuring this criticism is http://www.cspprofile.com/index.html. On this site, you can read a statewide published op-ed piece on how CSPP uses "academic freedom," to deny what would be standard rights, etc. that students would hold in mainstream graduate programs. About seven years ago, one student published a website which outlined some grievances.

CSPP became accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) in 1977. By the mid-1980s all of its existing Clinical Psychology programs became accredited by the American Psychological Association and its Marriage and Family Therapy programs are accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Marriage and Family Therapy Education of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT). Each psychology doctorate degree program (Ph.D. or Psy.D.) on each campus is accredited individually by the American Psychological Association.

A new provost, Dr. Russell Newman, former Executive Director for Professional Practice of the American Psychological Association, will join the university in January 2008. A new dean, Dr. Morgan Sammons, was hired to take over the California School of Professional Psychology in early 2008.

California Western University was the original name of United States International University (USIU), until the name change in 1968. At that time, the law school retained the name California Western School of Law (popularly known as California Western or Cal Western). This appears innacurate or incomplete as the USIU currently operates out of Nairobi, Kenya granting MA and PsyD degrees to US applicants.

California Western was originally chartered in 1924 by Leland Ghent Stanford as a private graduate institution called Balboa Law College, the first law school in San Diego. His brother, Dwight Stanford, served as one of the first deans. Leland Ghent Stanford is not related to the founder of Stanford University, Leland Stanford, though he did earn both his undergraduate and law degrees at Stanford. He also received a M.A. and Ph.D. in Government Administration there. Balboa Law College expanded to include undergraduate and other graduate studies and changed its name to Balboa University. The law school was closed in 1946. In 1955, the license was transferred to Balboa Corporation to open Balboa University in New Mexico, now school in distant education, based in Santa Teresa, Dona Ana County, New Mexico.

In 1952 Balboa University became affiliated with the Southern California Methodist Conference, changed its name to California Western University, and relocated to Point Loma. The law school was reopened downtown. In 1960, the law school had 6 full-time faculty and 23 students, when it relocated to Rohr Hall at Point Loma. It received accreditation from the American Bar Association in 1962. Following the name change, the university moved to its present Scripps Ranch location. Point Loma Nazarene University currently occupies the Point Loma site.

California Western University was the first university accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges to offer a doctorate in Clinical Psychology for off-campus study and practicum. From 1970-1976 this program offered students the opportunity to study, work, and do a practicum all while living out of California State, and with only infrequent brief visits to the campus, earn a PhD. The school applied for the accreditation process, which was never completed because of mergers with other universities and because of low enrollment caused by a lack of public knowledge of the program.

Misleadingly, the CWU name was also used by California Coast University, a state-approved distance-learning school, until losing a name-infringement lawsuit in 1981. CCU, which opened in 1973, should not be confused with the California Western University which operated from 1924 to 1968. The two schools were never associated in any way, and CCU only gained accreditation in January 2005.

At one time USIU competed at the NCAA Division I level for athletics. The university fielded a men's ice hockey team until 1987. The men's basketball program led the NCAA in scoring during the 1990-1991 season, Kevin Bradshaw, who also holds the record for most points scored in a single game with 72 was the leading scorer. In January 1989 Loyola-Marymount beat USIU 181-150. The next winter, USIU lost to Oklahoma 173-101 and Arkansas 166-101. Loyola hosted USIU in January 1991 and appeared headed for 200 points, settling for a 186-140 win, the most combined points in Division I history.

The program was disbanded in the middle of the 1991 season while the team was in Ohio for a game.

In 2005, The Department of Athletics announced a planned two year phase out of the intercollegiate sports program at Alliant International University's San Diego campus due to the high price of funding the program. The Men's and Women's Soccer, Cross Country, Track and Field, Tennis, and Women's Volleyball Teams concluded operations and competition after the 2006-2007 academic year.

In 2006, the School of Management, named after executive coach, Dr. Marshall Goldsmith, hired a new founding dean, Dr. James Goodrich in 2007. The Goldsmith School has three divisions: Business & Management, Organizational Psychology and International Studies. In 2007 MGSM began offering the sustainable business concentration.

The Graduate School of Education (GSOE) is lead by founding dean Karen Schuster Webb. The school offers candidates preparation centered on multidisciplinary and holistic approaches to education. GSOE offers graduate degrees in four program areas: TeachersCHOICE credentialing programs, Educational Psychology, Educational Leadership, and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL). Within TeachersCHOICE, Alliant offers a teacher credential program called the Early Completion Option where recent graduates or mid-career professionals can earn their teaching credential in nine months while teaching full time. Alliant offers credentials, Master's, and Doctorate degree in School Psychology, Educational Leadership (Administration), or Teaching(single and multiple subject are offered). All of the Graduate School of Education's credential programs are accredited by the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTCC).

• Alliant International University Official Website
• Presidio School of Management
• Mexico City Campus Website
• (Japanese) Japan Program Website
• Marshall Goldsmith Online Library
• Scripps Ranch Theatre
• True Criticisms