Company Profile
The Ohio State University
Company Overview
The Athletic Training Division is Ohio State University's academic unit for Athletic Training and works in close partnership with the Athletic Training staff in the Department of Athletics. The Athletic Training Division is housed in the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences within Ohio State's College of Medicine. The AT Division hosts a highly successful CAATE accredited undergraduate program leading to the Bachelor of Science in Athletic Training degree. The program has a 100% BOC exam 1st attempt pass rate (3 yr avg) and has averaged 18 graduates per year over that period. Annually, the program has approximately 60-70 students in the professional phase of the ATEP, uses 6 on-campus and 16-20 off-campus fieldwork sites, and has approximately 50 Certified Athletic Trainers serving as classroom instructors or preceptors. Division faculty also participate in the School's Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degree programs and are active in service at the State, District, and National levels.
More information is available at http://go.osu.edu/athletictraining
Mission
Our mission is to provide exceptional education; to deliver outstanding patient care; to define the practice of Athletic Training through research and scholarship; and to improve the world around us through leadership and service.
Vision
Our vision is to work as a team shaping the future of Athletic Training through teaching, mentoring, discovering, creating, caring, serving and leading.
Values
Our values serve as a compass for our actions and describe how we conduct ourselves.
EXCELLENCE – we are not satisfied with mere competence but instead strive to reach our maximum potential.
INTEGRITY – we do things the right way, even when it isn’t the easy way
ACCOUNTABILITY – we accept responsibility for our decisions and actions and are answerable for them
LEADERSHIP – we work to create, share and realize a vision for the future
INNOVATION – we are not limited by conventional wisdom but look to create a better way
TRADITION – we honor our proud heritage and carry-on the legacy of those who went before us
SERVICE – we “pay it forward”, giving our time, effort and expertise to improve the world around us
COMMUNITY – we value and respect all people, seeing our differences as strengths we can leverage to make us better and help us achieve our common goals
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The Ohio State University is located in Columbus Ohio, the state capital and nation's 15th largest city. Columbus is home to a vibrant economy, outstanding suburban school districts, historic neighborhoods, the nation's #1 ranked Zoo, and has been consistently ranked as one of America's best cities in which to live. More information about Columbus is available at http://liveworkplaycolumbus.com/index.php
Company History
The Ohio State University is a public land-grant university founded by the Ohio General Assembly in 1870 as the Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College. The university offered its first classes to 24 students in 1873. The name of the university was later changed to The Ohio State University in 1878. Since that time, The Ohio State University has grown to become one of the nation’s largest universities with an enrollment of over 57,000 students at the Columbus campus and is among the most comprehensive with $934 million in research expenditures last year. The university has 17 Colleges in addition to the graduate school, offers 175 undergraduate majors, 133 masters degree programs, and 112 doctoral degree programs. The university currently offers an estimated 12,000 different courses, has over 6,600 faculty and over 18,000 administrative and professional staff. Over its six campuses, the university stretches across nearly 16,000 acres and includes more than 1200 buildings (Athletic Training is offered at the 1700 acre, 594 building main campus in Columbus). Because of its research focus and large number of doctoral graduates, the university’s Basic Classification according to the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Learning is RU/VH [Research Universities (very high research activity)]. Ohio State also has one of the nation’s largest intercollegiate athletics program with 36 varsity sports teams, 1000 student-athletes and annual athletics expenditures in excess of $100 million (athletics is fiscally separate from the university). The university changed to the semester system for its academic calendar in 2012-13.
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Ohio State has a long and storied history in Athletic Training. OSU’s first NATA Hall of Fame member was Walter Baake who was with the Buckeyes from 1930 – 1936, but the more recognizable Athletic Training legacy at Ohio State began in 1942 when Ernest (Ernie) Biggs was named as the head athletic trainer. Ernie had completed a masters degree at OSU in 1941 and developed an athletic training program at OSU that was truly ahead of its time with its strong emphasis on preparing students and studying athletic injuries. In total, there are seven NATA Hall of Fame Members with Ohio State ties as either staff or students. Ohio State also has ties to 15 members of the Ohio Athletic Trainers’ Association Hall of Fame.
Benefits
Benefits information available at http://hr.osu.edu/public/documents/hrpubs/ben/overviewbook.pdf