Occupational Therapy Master's Program At Colorado State Named One Of The Best In The Country In Survey Released Today
Friday, February 20, 1998
FORT COLLINS--Colorado State University's master's degree program in
occupational
therapy was today named one of the best graduate programs in the country.
The program was tied for eighth place in a national survey released by
US News and World
Report magazine in their special 1998 Graduate Guide.
"We are very proud of this recognition for the department of
occupational therapy and its
tradition of excellence," said Nancy Hartley, dean of the College of Applied
Human Sciences, home to
the department. "We're even more proud of the solid research and teaching
done in this department
and we're justifiably proud of the quality of our graduates and what they in
turn do to benefit many
people in our state and nation."
The master's degree program in occupational therapy has 65 students who
work with 12
faculty members in the department. The entire occupational therapy program,
including
undergraduates, has 489 students. Colorado State is among only a handful of
universities in western
states offering degree programs in occupational therapy.
Wanda Mayberry, associate professor and graduate coordinator for the
department, said the
occupational therapy graduate program trains graduate students to work with
people who have
difficulties in work, recreation or living skills. These graduate students,
in their education, use a wide
variety of concrete activities to help people achieve their rehabilitation
goals. The graduate students
also take courses in leadership skills, learn research techniques and study
advanced theory in their
field.
"If a person's had a stroke, an occupational therapist might help teach
them to button a shirt
one-
handed or to write with their non-dominant hand, or even teach them to use a
computer instead of
manually writing at all," Mayberry said. "There's a wide variety of
applications and options
occupational therapists use every day. We help educate them for those wide
possibilities."
Other graduate programs at Colorado State that are ranked among the
best in the country by
the survey include veterinary medicine and vocational education. Colorado
State's veterinary medicine
program ranked fourth in the nation and the vocational education program
ranked twelfth. There were
no new rankings in the latest survey for veterinary medicine and vocational
education categories.
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