Accreditation Visits Scheduled for Fall 2017
As required by the United States Department of Education, this serves as notice to the public of upcoming accreditation visits and an opportunity for written third-party comment. Written comment concerning accreditation qualifications for the institutions or programs listed below (i.e., determining whether a program appears to be in compliance with Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education [ACOTE®] accreditation standards or ACOTE accreditation policy) may be submitted no later than 20 days prior to the program’s scheduled on-site evaluation to Heather Stagliano, Director of Accreditation, AOTA, 4720 Montgomery Lane, Suite 200, Bethesda, Maryland 20814-3449. A comment letter may also be sent by e-mail to [email protected].
Receipt of a third-party comment will be acknowledged and processed according to ACOTE’s Policy on Third-Party Comment, which includes sending a copy of the comment letter to the director of the occupational therapy or occupational therapy assistant program named in the letter.
The following programs are scheduled for on-site evaluations in fall 2017. All programs will be evaluated under the 2011 ACOTE Accreditation Standards.
September 11-13, 2017: Indiana Wesleyan University (OTD), Marion, Indiana – initial on-site evaluation Nebraska Methodist College of Nursing and Allied Health (OTM), Omaha, Nebraska – initial on-site evaluation Pima Medical Institute-Denver (OTA), Denver, Colorado
September 18-20, 2017: Cleveland State University (OTM), Cleveland, Ohio Gannon University-Florida Campus (OTD), Ruskin, Florida– initial on-site evaluation Jefferson College of Health Sciences (OTM), Roanoke, Virginia Pima Medical Institute-Renton (OTA), Renton, Washington Stark State College (OTA), North Canton, Ohio Thomas Jefferson University (OTD), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – initial on-site evaluation University of Southern Indiana (OTA), Evansville, Indiana
September 19-20, 2017: Trinity Washington University (OTA), Washington, DC (Fact-finding visit)
September 25-27, 2017: Arkansas Tech University-Ozark Campus (OTA), Ozark, Arkansas Kent State University at Ashtabula (OTA), Ashtabula, Ohio University of Utah (OTM), Salt Lake City, Utah
October 2-4, 2017: Arkansas State University-Jonesboro (OTD), Jonesboro, Arkansas – initial on-site evaluation
October 12-14, 2017: Philadelphia University (OTM), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
October 16-18, 2017: Ameritech College of Healthcare (OTA), Draper, Utah – initial on-site evaluation Brightwood College-Dallas (OTA), Dallas, Texas – initial on-site evaluation Harcum College (OTA), Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania Kettering College (OTD), Beavercreek, Ohio – initial on-site evaluation Radford University (OTM), Radford, Virginia
October 23-24, 2017: South University-West Palm Beach (OTA), Royal Palm Beach, Florida (Fact-finding visit)
October 23-25, 2017: Cox College (OTM), Springfield, Missouri
October 30-31, 2017: Medical Education and Training Campus/University of the Incarnate Word (OTA), Fort Sam Houston, Texas (Fact-finding visit)