Northeastern University | Chair, Physical Therapy, Movement, and Rehabilitation Services

Chair, Department of Physical Therapy, Movement, and Rehabilitation Sciences Leadership Profile 2022

NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY Northeastern University invites nominations, applications, or expressions of interest for the position of Chair of the Department of Physical Therapy, Movement, and Rehabilitation Sciences (PTMRS).

NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research university and the recognized leader in experience-driven lifelong learning. Our world-renowned experiential approach empowers our students, faculty, alumni, and partners to create impact far beyond the confines of discipline, degree, and campus.

Our locations—in Boston; Charlotte, North Carolina; London; Portland, Maine; San Francisco; Seattle; Silicon Valley; Toronto; Vancouver; and the Massachusetts communities of Burlington and Nahant—are nodes in our growing global university system. Through this network, we expand opportunities for flexible, student-centered learning and collaborative, solutions-focused research.

Northeastern’s comprehensive array of undergraduate and graduate programs— in a variety of on-campus and online formats—lead to degrees through the doctorate in nine colleges and schools.

Among these, we offer more than 195 multi-discipline majors and degrees designed to prepare students for purposeful lives and careers.

At Northeastern University, we embrace a culture of respect, where each person is valued for their contribution and is treated fairly. We oppose all forms of racism. We support a culture that does not tolerate any form of discrimination and where each person may belong. We strive to have a diverse membership, one where each person is trained and mentored to promote their success.

BOUVÉ COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES For more than a century, Northeastern University’s Bouvé College of Health Sciences has championed a simple idea: Experience deepens learning. Here, at one of the nation’s leading health science colleges, future pharmacists, policymakers, public health professionals, health administrators, physician assistants, nurses, physical therapists, speech therapists, and psychologists learn from renowned professors, while apprenticing alongside preeminent clinicians, researchers and entrepreneurs at top health institutions. Bouvé College of Health Sciences encompasses four exceptional schools, School of Community Health and Behavioral Sciences, School of Clinical and Rehabilitation Sciences, School of Nursing, and School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.

NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY Together, these institutions leverage interdisciplinary collaboration and strategic synergies to tackle the world’s most pressing health challenges. It is this cross-pollination of academic rigor, interdisciplinary perspectives and globally recognized experiential learning that distinguishes Bouvé and its graduates.

The Bouvé College of Health Sciences has over 200 faculty members, with approximately 2,000 undergraduate and 2,400 graduate students. It is the leading national model for education and research in the health, psychosocial and biomedical sciences. We support the University’s mission of educating students for a life of fulfillment and accomplishment and creating and translating knowledge to meet global and societal needs. The college boasts an annual research awards portfolio of about $30 million from federal, state, private, and industry sponsors and growing.

SCHOOL OF CLINICAL AND REHABILITATION SCIENCES The School of Clinical and Rehabilitation Sciences (the School) within the Bouvé College of Health Sciences combines skilled faculty with innovative academics to create leaders in the fields of Physical Therapy, Movement, Rehabilitation Sciences; Communication Sciences and Disorders; and Medical Science. Working at the intersection of habilitation and rehabilitation, clinical practice and implementation, data, and engineering - students and fellows engage in cutting edge, transformative research, and experiential learning - preparing them to improve the quality of life and self-care of patients and communities, while promoting and developing innovative approaches to the future of healthcare.

The School strongly exemplifies the mission of Northeastern University and its Academic Plan – Experience Unleashed – a practice-oriented, student-centered, urban research institution. The School is committed to the goals of the institution and the Bouvé College of Health Sciences (the College) which include excellence in education, excellence in research and scholarship, and a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY Committed to evidence-based translational research and health equity, the school offers a unique, transdisciplinary environment that incorporates teaching, learning, and serving, in a rapidly evolving, multicultural environment. Disciplines taught span the breadth of science and healthcare.

Interdisciplinary approaches to learning, collaborative research, and Northeastern University’s signature co-op and clinical placements at leading healthcare systems, and technology corporations further distinguish the School’s education. Graduates go on to improve and maintain the health of patients and the quality of life in their homes and communities with a significant impact in hospitals, homes, workplaces, schools and neighborhoods as well as treatment centers across the globe.

Mission: To educate and inspire compassionate leaders from diverse backgrounds in clinical and rehabilitation sciences to create transformative impact, from local communities to global society.

Vision: Lead interprofessional education, research, and practice in habilitation, rehabilitation, and clinical sciences to empower diverse communities to thrive.

Core Values: • Foster inclusion, diversity, and equity; • Create and sustain a healthy and resilient community through a culture of trust and respect; • Demonstrate excellence in education, research, practice, and leadership; • Lead interprofessional experiential learning; • Accelerate discovery and innovation; • Empower individuals, communities, and populations; • Translate the work of the school into action and impact in the community; and • Promote achievements of the faculty, staff, and students of the School.

NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL THERAPY, MOVEMENT, AND REHABILITATION SCIENCES The cornerstone of the department of Physical Therapy, Movement, and Rehabilitation Sciences (PTMRS department) is experiential learning, which is aligned with the mission of Bouvé College and Northeastern University’s Academic Plan. With over 30 faculty members, the Department’s vision is to lead through innovation, education, and research in human movement and rehabilitation sciences. We advance health, human movement, and rehabilitation sciences through interprofessional and experiential education, co-operative education (Co-op), research, and practice within a dynamic global society. Current research programs at the department include the Neuromotor Systems Laboratory, Rehabilitation Games and Extended Reality (ReGame-XR) Laboratory, Robotics, Rehabilitation, and Locomotion Laboratory, Musculoskeletal Epidemiology and Biomechanics Laboratory, Occupational Biomechanics and Ergonomics Laboratory, Soft Robotics and Sensing Laboratory, Neurophysiology Laboratory, Laboratory for Neural Engineering and Rehabilitation, Laboratory for Movement Neuroscience, and multiple laboratories in the Center for Cognitive and Brain Health. A new center for brain stimulation and modeling is also being established and will be co-located with the researchdedicated brain imaging center. The research programs are highly interdisciplinary with ample opportunities for collaboration across the Northeastern University ecosystem. It is anticipated that the PTMRS Chair will collaborate closely across colleges and network sites of Northeastern’s global university system establishing innovative educational, research and service collaborations with funders, industries, governmental and philanthropic partners nationally and globally.

The PT program at NU is currently ranked the #38 best physical therapy program in the United States

by U.S. News & World Report and has been accredited by CAPTE since January 1930. It is one of the oldest accredited programs in the country. Accreditation reviews occur every 10 years to ensure quality education that meets the needs of the public and the profession. We were reaccredited on November 6, 2013 and are accredited until 2023. Two year graduation rate for the PT program is 99% while two year first time pass rate and two year average employment rate 6 months from graduation both stand at 97%.

The PTMRS Department is housed within the School of Clinical and Rehabilitation Sciences and is the academic home for several programs, including a three-year Post Baccalaureate Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT), a Master’s in Human Movement and Rehabilitation Sciences (standard and one-year accelerated format or Experiential Master’s Degree – MSe), the Ph.D. in Human Movement and Rehabilitation Sciences, the Transitional Doctor of Physical Therapy, and a Sports Physical Therapy Clinical Residency.

NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY Northeastern features a cooperative education program, more commonly known as “co-op,” that integrates classroom study with professional experience and includes over 3,100 partners across all seven continents. The program has been a key part of Northeastern’s curriculum of experiential learning for more than a hundred years and is one of the largest co-op/internship programs in the world. While not required for all academic disciplines, participation is nearly universal among undergraduate and graduate students. Northeastern also has a comprehensive study abroad program that spans more than 170 universities and colleges.

POSITION EXPECTATIONS The Chair of the PTMRS department is a full-time tenured faculty position leading the department and overseeing all administrative, academic and research-related responsibilities and activities . The Chair provides academic leadership and strategy for all teaching, service, research and professional development activities within the department in alignment with the School, Bouvé College of Health Sciences and Northeastern University . The Chair represents and advocates for the department internally in a university climate of rapid, transformative growth, and externally to relevant accrediting bodies and stakeholders. The Chair will report to the Associate Dean for the School and the Dean of Bouvé College of Health Sciences to advance the mission and strategic plan of the department, school, college and collectively contribute to University’s Academic Plan.

The Chair is responsible for setting academic and intellectual priorities; maintaining standards of scholarly, academic, and pedagogical excellence in the department; and contributing to the growth and innovation of the Bouvé College.

Additional responsibilities will include: • Collaborate with the college leadership, including other unit leaders, to advance the mission of the college and university.

• Work closely with the college associate deans to advance various areas in alignment with the college goals and vision of the college and university.

• Collaborate with unit’s faculty to ensure the development and implementation of unit’s governance procedures, including department faculty approved committee structure and other service roles.

• Engage faculty in strategic planning regarding intellectual, scholarly and academic priorities aligned with the strategic plans of both the university and college.

• Collaborate with unit’s faculty to provide oversight of the development and delivery of academic programs offered by the department, ensuring high quality educational experiences for all traditional and professional students and learners.

NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY • Provide oversight and responsible stewardship of departmental resources, including staff and budget.

• Assign faculty and staff work in accordance with institutional policies.

• Evaluate faculty performance, in compliance with the university Faculty Handbook.

• Evaluate staff performance, in compliance with university policies.

• Ensure that faculty and staff have mentoring and support necessary for their success.

• Ensure that applicable regional and programmatic accreditation standards are achieved, with input and in collaboration with the faculty; assist the university in meeting NECHE standards.

• Collaborate with unit’s faculty to implement and monitor assessment plans and quality improvement of academic programs, to achieve departmental excellence in all facets of research, scholarship, teaching, and service.

• Foster a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accountability.

• Collaborate with Associate Dean for Research & Innovation to expand research.

• Recommend faculty and staff hiring/appointments, reappointment, promotion/tenure, and compensation after consultation with the faculty, according to unit’s faculty approved procedures.

NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY QUALIFICATIONS A terminal doctoral degree (PhD or equivalent) from an accredited institution and a track record of scholarship, teaching, and service which merit appointment at the rank of Full Professor with tenure are required. Certification and licensure as a physical therapist are strongly preferred.

For more information about Tenure Criteria and Faculty Rank, please see the following links: Tenure https://faculty.northeastern.edu/handbook/appointments-promotion-and-tenure/tenure/ Promotion to full: https://faculty.northeastern.edu/handbook/appointments-promotion-andtenure/ promotion/ Experience in an academic administrative leadership role with demonstrated successes, understanding of the DPT accreditation process, clinical (DPT) and research (PhD) doctoral programs, curriculum development, university teaching, collaboration within a complex organization, a program of research with a record of publication, and success with obtaining extramural funding are desired. The successful candidate will be an innovative person with the personnel management skills that are necessary to build a shared vision that includes sensitivity to and competence with individuals of diverse backgrounds and cultures.

The following additional characteristics are essential: • • • • • • •

Ability to organize and present ideas clearly; Excellent interpersonal skills; A strong record of leading research programs; Skill in budgetary planning and fiscal management; Proven capacity to listen and respond to the needs of faculty, staff, and students; Appreciation for clinical work; and Demonstrated ability and inclination to provide collaborative leadership.

NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY APPLICATION PROCESS The Search Committee invites nominations, applications (a letter of interest, comprehensive curriculum vitae, diversity, equity, and inclusion statement, and the names and contact information of five or more references) or expressions of interest to be submitted to the search firm assisting the Northeastern University (electronic submissions preferred). Confidential review of materials will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. For full consideration, it is preferred that applications are submitted by September 2, 2022.

Jacob Anderson, Senior Principal Parker Executive Search 5 Concourse Parkway Suite 2875 Atlanta, GA 30328 Phone: (678) 775-4564 janderson@parkersearch.com www.parkersearch.com

Northeastern University is an equal opportunity employer, seeking to recruit and support a broadly diverse community of faculty and staff. Northeastern values and celebrates diversity in all its forms and strives to foster an inclusive culture built on respect that affirms inter-group relations and builds cohesion.

All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

To learn more about Northeastern University’s commitment and support of diversity and inclusion, please see www.northeastern.edu/diversity.