Accreditation Visits Scheduled for Fall 2017

As required by the 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  -Florida Campus (OTD), Ruskin, Florida– initial on-site evaluation  Jefferson College of Health Sciences (OTM), Roanoke,  Pima Medical Institute-Renton (OTA), Renton, Washington  Stark State College (OTA), North Canton, Ohio  Thomas Jefferson University (OTD), , – 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)