The Physical Therapist Assistant Program has received final approval from both SUNY and the College's Curriculum Committee for changes as related to the SUNY Seamless Transfer Initiative.  A.Y. 2017-2018 will be the initial year for those changes and thus will require review. In addition to curricular changes, the Department remains vested in the pursuit of progressive assessment activities, obtain funding and purchase of equipment to maintain accreditation and industry standards, promote the development and use of the Blackboard Learning Management System, establish connections to adjacent universities in the form of articulation agreements and provide educational opportunities to the surrounding therapeutic community. Moreover, accreditation activities will commence in earnest for the research, compliance, and writing of the Program's Accreditation Self-Study which will be due the summer of 2018.  Furthermore, this upcoming year will see a change in an otherwise stable program faculty as the senior member will have retired in December 2016; pursuit of approval for a fulltime replacement as well as the hiring of same will be performed with this planning and budgeting cycle.