CSUN Alive

Advanced Professional Education, Research, and Clinical Services Dedicating to Enhancing and Extending Life

The California State University Northridge (CSUN) has a distinctive approach to addressing the knotty questions and challenges associated with ensuring that each individual is able to both enjoy a full and meaningful life and make valuable contributions to the larger human community.   It is an approach that draws together graduate education, research within and across disciplines, and exceptional clinical and counseling services to provide the knowledge, professionals abilities, and broad and sophisticated conceptual skills contemporary professionals needed to make an important positive impact on the length and quality of life for individuals, families, communities, and nations.

CSUN is the academic home to graduate students and alumni; clinical and research faculty; and accomplished counselors, educators, and therapists who are committed to working together as learners, scholars and parishioners to develop innovative, sensitive and highly effective approaches to enhancing and extending life.  

CSUN and its extended academic community are committed to the belief that each life is exceptional – full of insights, ideas, experience, and possibilities that is truly unique.  The full potential of each irreplaceable person is lost to the human community when she is deprived of a meaningful education and/or a nurturing family or community, adversely impacted by untreated health concerns or unremediated disabilities, subjected to violence or despoiled living environments, or the like.  In that light, CSUN is committed to educating professionals and supporting research, and clinical and counseling services that are dedicated to ensuring that each individual has the opportunity to make his/her most valuable contributions to the larger human community for as long as possible.  In turn, CSUN graduates and faculty are dedicated to enhancing the lives of individuals and communities from life’s beginning to its end.  CSUN is the academic home to those dedicated to ensuring the well being of all individuals and their communities today and tomorrow.

The synergy among CSUN’s advanced professional education, research, and clinical services in fields focused on enhancing and extending life are a particularly valuable resource enhancing the well being of individuals and communities in tangible and enduring ways.  CSUN faculty and graduates are a unique and valuable force for positive change in the education, health and wellness, creative imagination, and community engagement of others.  The impact CSUN has on the quality of life, the strength of community, the future of humankind, and the viability of the environment and sustainable economy.

Among the advanced professional preparation degrees offered in the key fields devoted to enhancing and extending life:

•	A Masters Degree in Communications Disorders and Sciences
•	A Masters Degree in Physical Therapy
•	A Masters Degree in  Marriage and Family Counseling
•	A Masters Degree  ….

Among the CSUN’s distinctive and widely respected research and clinical and therapeutic services centers:

•	The Brown Center for Aquatic Therapy
•	The Magrum Center for Food and Nutrition
•	The …

Among the CSUN applied research and service partnerships: