The FAMU School of Allied Health Sciences gained approval to add a new doctoral degree in physical therapy during last weeks Board of Governors meeting. The new degree program is scheduled to begin this fall (2008). The school already offers a masters in physical therapy, but is expected to phase that program out and go with the Ph.D as the industry is moving that way.
This is a great step in our University. I can remember a time when Ganious and Bryant wanted us to be no more than a four year institution, now Ammons comes in and less than three months and we have another doctoral program. Thank God for Dr. Ammons. The right man and the right time.
ReplyDeleteWOW! FAMU is doing it NOW!
ReplyDeleteWay to go Dr. Toran, you hard work has paid off, the Physical Therapy Program at FAMU is lucky to have you!
ReplyDeleteFAMU may not BE ALL THE WAY BACK, HOWEVER, IT IS COMING - DAY BY DAY - STEP BY STEP- RE-BUILDING AND FORTIFYING THE FOUNDATION.
ReplyDeleteOUR BEST IS ON THE WAY. The AMMONS TEAM IS GETTING IT DONE.
GO RATLERS --- FAMU FOREVER!!!!!!!
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ReplyDeleteI got too excited and mis-spelled RATTLERS. Y'ALL KNOW that I KNOW BETTER.
10:39, we don't have the program yet; we're going to get it. Lots of things have to happen betw. now & the actuality of the program. Plus, plans were in place for the program long before Ammons came on board. One doesn't simply "come in" and "boom," a doctoral program all done by one person. Doesn't happen that way. We're all excited, of course, but let us be real and take caution.
ReplyDelete8:21, I really hate the cynicism. We all are very aware that Dr. Ammons is not a one man show. But he is the leader of the ship. I guess Castell and Co. paved the way and if so, that's ONE thing that they did right.
ReplyDeletePlans for the Doctor of Public Health go all the way back to the 1990s. Fred Humphries and James Ammons made it part of the university's longterm academic master plan.
ReplyDeleteCynthia Hughes Harris and the Allied Health faculty are the ones responsible for actually building the doctoral program. The best thing Castell ever did for the program was not to get in the way of progress, much unlike what she did to the pharmacy school. She was probably didn't get around to it because she was too busy destroying the financial books.