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MBC Names VP for Health Sciences
A leader with a wealth of experience is now helping shape the future of Mary Baldwin College’s new Murphy Deming College of Health Sciences.
On August 6, Linda Seestedt-Stanford officially began her role as vice president of health sciences at MBC. Most recently having served as dean of the College of Health and Human Sciences at Western Carolina University (WCU), Seestedt-Stanford will help lead the development of three graduate programs in physical therapy, occupational therapy, and physician assistant studies.
Crews Preparing Construction Site
Work is well underway on the site of the future Murphy Deming College of Health Sciences in Fishersville. Crews are preparing the hilltop for the building pad and parking lot in anticipation of a ceremonial October 18 groundbreaking. Crescent Development Group, LLC of Charlottesville is overseeing the project. Visit the health sciences pages of the college’s website to learn more about the plan to establish graduate programs in physical therapy, occupational therapy, and physician assistant studies; sign up for updates; and follow the construction of the college of health sciences in pictures.
All programs have initiated the appropriate accreditation process. It is expected that all students will graduate from an accredited program.
Mary Baldwin College is seeking accreditation of a new physical therapist education program from Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education (CAPTE). The program will submit an Application for Candidacy, which is the formal application required in the pre-accreditation stage. Submission of this document does not assure that the program will be granted Candidate for Accreditation status. Achievement of Candidate for Accreditation status is required prior to implementation of the professional/technical phase of the program; therefore, no students may be enrolled in professional/technical courses until Candidate for Accreditation status has been achieved. Further, though achievement of Candidate for Accreditation status signifies satisfactory progress toward accreditation, it does not assure that the program will be granted accreditation.
Graduation from a physical therapist education program accredited by CAPTE, 1111 North Fairfax Street, Alexandria, VA 22314; phone; 703-306-3245; accreditation@apta.org is necessary for eligibility to sit for the licensure examination, which is required in all states.
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Mary Baldwin College has applied for provisional accreditation from the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA). Mary Baldwin College/Murphy Deming College of Health Sciences anticipates matriculating its first class in May 2015, pending provisional accreditation in September 2014. Provisional accreditation is an accreditation status for a new PA program that has not yet enrolled students, but at the time of its comprehensive accreditation review, has demonstrated its preparedness to initiate a program in accordance with the accreditation Standards.
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Mary Baldwin College is seeking accreditation for its Occupational Therapist Doctoral Program from the Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education (ACOTE®), c/o American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA®), 4720 Montgomery Lane, P.O. Box 31220, Bethesda, MD 20824-1220, 301-652-2682.