College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences 2015-2016 Catalog

100 own internal data. Once students are graduated, we must rely on their maintaining in contact with us to provide us with licensure exam pass rates and career data. To encourage students to do this, we utilize social media and personal contact. We provide graduates with a permanent @nova.edu email address. In addition, we maintain three active Facebook pages: an NSU MS in MFT Club page; a page put together by graduates but linked to the program director, for those signed up to take the licensure exam; and the program director’s individual page. The program director posts job openings and resources for graduates to encourage graduates to maintain contact with her and with the program. We also host monthly “reunions” for graduates in the tri-county area, one for graduates in agency work and one for graduates in private practice. In addition, the NSU alumni office sends out a survey to graduates annually. We consider ourselves both “high tech” and “high touch” in our efforts to maintain contact with graduates. The program director is reliably in contact with the majority of program graduates, and supplies them with job openings, references, workshop information, and ongoing updates on the licensure examination. 3. Finally, we also maintain contact with major employers of our graduates and obtain their input through participation in our curriculum committee. We have representatives of large private practices and agencies that employ our graduates in the tri-county area serving on this committee and this allows us to continuously assess the program fit with employer needs. Graduation Rates Accreditation by the COAMFTE (Commission on Accreditation for Marriage and Family Therapy Education) requires that programs graduate at least 5-% of their students within the minimum advertised length of the program and 65% by the maximum advertised length of the program. The M.S. in Family Therapy program advertises that students graduate within a 2-5 year time frame. Analysis of data indicates that the program graduates 62% of its students by the 2 year mark and 96% by the 5 year deadline. These impressive statistics substantially exceed the requirements of the COAMFTE. National Licensure Exam Pass Rate Graduates of our M.S in Family Therapy program are eligible to become registered interns in the state of Florida as Marriage and Family Therapists. Registered Interns can take the National licensing exam developed and administered by AMFTRB (Association of Marital and Family Therapy Regulatory Boards). Registered interns must take and pass the exam and complete other clinical requirements in order to be eligible to become fully licensed marriage and family therapists in the state of Florida. Through the education, mentoring and diligent efforts on the part of the program, our graduates have a passing rate of 99% over last 10 years on the AMFTRB National Exam.