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VCUBulletin Graduate and Professional Programs Monroe Park and MCV Campuses July 2006 Virginia Commonwealth University is an equal opportunity, affirmative action university providing access to education and employment without regard to age, race, color, national origin, gender, religion, sexual orientation, veteran’s status, political affiliation or disability. Virginia Commonwealth University is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award baccalaureate, master’s, doctoral and first professional degrees. 2006-07 Virginia Commonwealth University VCU Graduate and Professional Programs Bulletin 2006-07 Virginia Commonwealth University 1 VCU Graduate and Professional Programs Bulletin 2006-07 Virginia Commonwealth University is a state-supported institution with an enrollment of more than 26,000 undergraduate, graduate and health Specialized program accreditation or certification professions students studying in 11 schools and one college on its two campuses in Richmond, Va. The MCV Campus is located near the Campus Police financial, governmental and shopping areas of downtown Richmond; the Monroe Park Campus is two miles west in Richmond’s historic Fan District, a residential area which dates from the 19th century. Police Academy Certified by the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services The university takes its founding date as 1838, the year that the Medical College of Virginia was created as the medical department of Hampden-Sydney College. MCV became an independent institution in Division of Student Affairs and Enrollment Services 1854 and state-supported in 1860. VCU’s Monroe Park Campus was the former Richmond School of Social University Counseling Services Work and Public Health, established in 1917. In 1925, it became the American Psychological Association Richmond Division of the College of William and Mary; in 1939 its name Student Health Services was changed to the Richmond Professional Institute of the College of Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations William and Mary, from which it separated in 1962 to become an independent state institution. In 1968, MCV and RPI merged to form VCU. Hospital accreditation VCU enrolls a diverse student body. The university’s level of funded research ranks it as a Carnegie Doctoral/Research University-Extensive, placing it among the top 100 research universities in the country. The VCU VCU Health System faculty, representing the finest American and international graduate Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations institutions, enhances VCU’s position as among the important institutions of higher learning in the United States via their work in the classroom, laboratory, studio, clinic and as published in scholarly journals. VCU Hospital accreditation maintains active communications with its growing cadre of alumni and enjoys a cooperative and stimulating relationship with the city of VCU Health System Richmond, which encompasses the arts, the business community, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations architectural community and local government. Mission of VCU VCU’s location in historic Richmond affords its students the benefits of living in one of the South’s most cosmopolitan cities. Located in central VCU is a public, urban, research university, supported by the Virginia, Richmond is a two-hour drive from the Atlantic seashore to the commonwealth of Virginia to serve the people of the commonwealth and east, Appalachian Mountains recreational sites to the west, and the nation. The university provides a fertile and stimulating environment for Washington, D.C. to the north. A wide range of cultural, educational and learning, teaching, research, creative expression and public service. recreational facilities and activities is available in the Richmond area, Essential to the life of the university is a faculty actively engaged in including a full performance schedule at VCU’s own Performing Arts scholarship and creative exploration activities that increase knowledge and Center. understanding of the world, and inspire and enrich teaching. Administration The university is dedicated to educating full- and part-time students of all ages and diverse backgrounds in an atmosphere of free inquiry and VCU administration provides leadership and organizational structure for scholarship, so they may realize their full potential as informed, productive the university, overseeing its goals and mission. Refer to each unit’s Web citizens with a lifelong commitment to learning and service. site for a current listing of administrators. The university serves the local, state, national and international communities through its scholarly activities, its diverse educational Deans programs and its public service activities. As an institution of higher learning in a metropolitan center that also is the capital of the Deans provide leadership for their respective school or college. Refer to commonwealth, the university enjoys unique resources that enrich its each unit’s Web site for a current listing of its deans, departmental chairs programs and offer special opportunities for contributing its intellectual and and program heads. creative expertise in the development of innovative approaches to meet the changing needs of our society. Accreditation The goals of VCU in carrying out its mission are to: Virginia Commonwealth University is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award • provide undergraduate education that includes a broad and rigorous baccalaureate, master’s, doctoral and first professional degrees. SACS is foundation in the arts, sciences and humanities, and explores the located at 1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, GA 30033; telephone: (404) ideas and values of humankind, 679-4500. • offer nationally and internationally recognized professional and graduate programs leading to doctoral, master’s, and other terminal Academic program accreditation and advanced degrees in the professions, the sciences, the humanities and the arts, See the college/schools for detailed information about program accreditation. • foster a scholarly climate that inspires creativity, a free and open 2 VCU Graduate and Professional Programs Bulletin 2006-07 exchange of ideas, critical thinking, intellectual curiosity, freedom of expression and intellectual integrity, The VCU Medical Center is committed to educational programs directed toward meeting the state’s health needs. Programs are dedicated to • expand the boundaries of knowledge and understanding through maintaining and updating the competency of health professionals as well research, scholarship and creative expression in the sciences, arts, as preparing graduates to enter the health professions. Educational programs are supported by several academic disciplines, the teaching humanities and the professional disciplines, hospital, carefully selected off-campus health facilities and an institutional • value and promote racial and cultural diversity in its student body, commitment to effective teaching. faculty, administration and staff to enhance and enrich the university, The VCU Medical Center also is committed to a comprehensive program • develop and sustain a faculty of the highest quality by providing an of patient care: to demonstrate excellence in practice as a model for students, to provide a base of study designed to improve patient care, to environment conducive to their achieving and maintaining national and meet the needs of patients in its hospital’s service area and to offer highly international stature and by continuing to attract both recognized specialized services in clinical areas of demonstrated expertise. scholars and outstanding individuals with a high potential for scholarly achievement and excellence in teaching, The VCU Medical Center’s research programs are designed to develop new knowledge in areas ranging from the molecular level through clinical • provide an optimal environment for educating and training health care procedures to health care delivery and outcomes. Their goal is to serve as professionals, for conducting research to improve health care and a model for students in the spirit of inquiry and the application of the delivery, and for meeting the needs of patients and the community in a scientific process to patient care, and to focus interdisciplinary effort on comprehensive health care setting, problems amenable to the scientific approach. • use the urban environment as a laboratory for studying and Oak Ridge Associated Universities Consortium developing new approaches to problems pertaining to the public and private sectors, Since 1963, students and faculty of VCU have benefited from its membership in Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU). ORAU is a • support, through its commitment to public exhibitions,