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Arcadia University
450 S. Easton Rd
Glenside, PA 19038
Phone: (215) 572-2910
Toll-free: 1-877-ARCADIA or 1-877-272-2342
Fax: (215) 572-4049
Web site: www.arcadia.edu
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KeyFacts
Founded: 1853
Type of Institution: Coeducational, private, comprehensive university in suburban Philadelphia
Enrollment: More than 3,200 students, including 1,570 undergraduates, more than 300 part-time undergraduates, and 1,472 graduate students.
Faculty: 306 faculty members. Eighty-five percent of full-time assistant, associate, and full professors hold doctoral or terminal degrees.
Student/Faculty Ratio: 12-1
Degrees Offered: B.A., B.F.A., B.S., M.A., M.S., and doctoral degrees in more than 40 majors.
Study Abroad: Students can study abroad in Argentina, Australia, England, Equatorial Guinea, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Spain, or Wales.
Residence Halls: Six residence halls and apartment units in four local complexes house more than 1,050 students and offer a variety of housing options.
Arcadia PT Chair To Deliver Presigious McMillan Lecture At APTA Conference In 2005
Glenside, Pa.Dr. Rebecca L. Craik will receive the American Physcial Therapy Association's highest honor next year in Boston when she presents the 36th Mary McMillan Lecture. Craik has made contributions to physical therapy professional education and clinical practice, national policy related to physical rehabilitation research, and scientific investigations. She has played a major role in the development of the research agenda for physical therapy, and in this capacity she has increased the visibility of the physical therapy profession within the interdisciplinary rehabilitation community.
Currently, Dr. Craik is professor and chair of the Physical Therapy Department at Arcadia and holds an adjunct associate professorship in the Department of Neurology at the University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine, and an adjunct assistant professorship in the Bioengineering Program at Drexel University. She has served for 20 years on the Editorial Board of Physical Therapy, longer than any other person in the Journal's history, and has served as acting co-editor and deputy editor. Dr. Craik also is congress editor for the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.
Dr. Craik has served on APTA's Research Committee, as chair and president of the Section on Research, and on the Foundation for Physical Therapy's Grant Review Committee. As a member of the Foundation Board, she has helped promote the first Clinical Research Network in physical therapy. Dr. Craik has represented physical therapy at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as chair of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development's National Advisory Board on Medical Rehabilitation Research.
Dr. Craik has served as a grant reviewer for such organizations as the Veterans Administration, the National Science Foundation, and NIH's National Institute for Disability and Rehabilitation Research and National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research. She is author of more than 19 refereed publications and 12 book chapters and has served as a principal investigator or co-investigator in 18 grants. In the past 23 years she has received more than $2,700,000 in grant or contract awards.
The recipient of APTA's Catherine Worthingham Fellowship Award and Lucy Blair Service Award, Dr. Craik also has received research awards from the APTA Neurology Section and at least 12 invited lectureship awards.
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