Mission

The School of Physical Therapy is committed to cultivating compassionate, skilled, and innovative physical therapy professionals. Graduates will use evidence-based practice to optimize human movement and promote health and wellness in a dynamic healthcare environment. We are dedicated to advancing health and wellness for diverse populations through outstanding education, experiential learning, and exemplary service.

Mission

Educate and Inspire: Provide a high-impact, rigorous, and inclusive educational environment that prepares students to excel as physical therapy practitioners, leaders, and advocates in an ever-changing healthcare landscape.

Promote Health Equity: Strive to eliminate health disparities and promote health equity through education, outreach, and advocacy, ensuring access to physical therapy services for all, particularly underserved and marginalized populations.

Cultivate Professional Growth: Support lifelong learning and professional development opportunities for our students, alumni, faculty, and the broader physical therapy community to adapt to the evolving needs of society and the profession.

Foster Collaboration and Inclusivity: Build an inclusive community that values diversity and collaboration among students, faculty, healthcare professionals, and partners, enhancing the educational experience and enriching the profession.

Core Values

Movement as the core intervention of physical therapy. 

Innovation. Develop our students to be innovators by embracing change and striving for new and better ways to enhance education, within and beyond the classroom.

Collaboration between faculty, students, and clinicians to foster the application of learning to authentic cases and patient experiences. 

Service. Actively contribute to the profession through scholarship and evidence-based practice and outreach through clinical education involvement, curricular components, community guest lecturers, capstone groups working with the community.   

Professionalism. Emphasize developing behaviors that demonstrate empathy, integrity, honesty, concern for others, and interpersonal skills that are consistent with the commitment to having a positive influence on the health of society. 

Inter- and Intraprofessional Learning and Practice. Ongoing cooperation and coordination between healthcare students and professionals to foster effective, patient-centered care through collaborative practice. 

Lifelong Learning. Use of evidence-based approaches to help students become independent professionals and encourage them to continue learning.