COMING IN FIRST
Shane Carter, D.C. is a proud member of the first graduating class of chiropractors from Palmer Florida in 2005.
his time as a student at the Fountainhead and winding its way through various faculty and administrative appointments. Following Donald Kern, D.C., Ph.C.’s return home to Iowa, Dr. Martin, who was already serving as president of Palmer West, assumed part-time responsibility for coordinating administrative activities on the Florida campus, under the direction of the senior administration. In 2006, when the senior administration assigned full-time
oversight to each branch campus, Dr. Martin moved to Florida and William Meeker, D.C., M.P.H., moved to Palmer West. “The profession does well here,” Dr. Martin explains from his office across campus from the clinic where Dr. Carter serves. “Palmer alumni in Florida were and always have been great champions of the College, well before the branch campus here was established. And Florida is an attractive place to be!” Indeed, the numbers speak for themselves. The Florida campus has experienced a tremendous enrollment growth, from some 450 or 500 students in 2006, to the nearly 900 the campus anticipates hosting this fall, underscoring the shared vision of the Board of Trustees, Port Orange leadership, and regional Palmer alumni.
As impressive as it is, with growth of this scale comes the need for space to accommodate it. In 2003 and 2005, two brand-new buildings went up on the
academic
permanent campus site on Port Orange’s City Center Parkway, with the Standard Process Student Center opening in 2012 as enrollment approached 750. “Then we got to the point where we
had remodeled just about everything we could,” recalls Dr. Martin. “We were becoming a quart in a pint pot, as my wife would say.” In 2020, emboldened by the support of alumni and a vision for the future, the Board directed the undertaking of a comprehensive campus master planning effort under the direction of College Provost, Dan Weinert, D.C., Ph.D. In its next daring move for the Florida campus, the board and senior
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