Dear Colleagues:
Once again U.S. News and World Report has nationally ranked The School of Communication Sciences and Disorders at The University of Memphis as having top graduate programs in both Audiology and also Speech-Language Pathology. For their 2015 rankings U.S. News analyzed more than 1,300 graduate programs and placed the University of Memphis graduate program in Audiology 12th nationally and the graduate program in Speech-Language Pathology 15th. We congratulate the faculty, staff and students for this impressive and sustained accomplishment.
Dean Maurice I. Mendel writes: “The School has been nationally-ranked since 1998, and continually strives to stay one step ahead of the state-of-the-art and the state-of-the-science in their field. The research laboratories and outstanding team of research personnel currently have almost $4 million in external funding to maintain our Center of Excellence (Center for Research Initiatives and Strategies for the Communicatively Impaired, CRISCI) in the study of communicative disorders. These research projects, led by our expert faculty, provide cutting edge research that adds to the evidence base for the profession.”
The School is committed to providing students, the community, and the discipline with innovative and high quality classroom instruction, clinical service, research that enhances both the theoretical and applied knowledge of communication sciences and disorders. It has demonstrated consistent success in promoting active learning, expert mentoring, and spirited engagement in service activities, so that students are prepared to design and deliver effective, culturally-sensitive, evidenced-based clinical services in audiology and speech-language pathology which improve the functioning and general well-being of persons with speech, language, swallowing, hearing and balance disorders.
As US News & World Report once again recognized, the University of Memphis programs prepare professionals who are well qualified for employment in a range of education- and health-related settings and who, once employed, are recognized for their competence, leadership, ethics, and commitment to service and life-long learning. Please join me in congratulating the School on this remarkable achievement.
Go Tigers!
M. David Rudd, Provost