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Our Goals

Goal 1

To attract, develop, and retain an excellent and diverse faculty, representative of the broad spectrum of scientific and professional experience associated with the profession of pharmacy.

Strategies:

• Provide start-up funds that are competitive and sufficient to ensure that new faculty have the resources needed to establish successful research and/or practice programs.
• Provide development opportunities and support to ensure that existing faculty continue to grow in their field.
• Provide retention incentives for our most distinguished faculty through endowed professorships and named chairs.
• Annually review national and regional salaries by department and rank to ensure that salaries are competitive. Make market adjustment as necessary.
• Aggressively recruit an excellent and diverse faculty through national advertising, national conferences and professional networks.

Goal 2

To become nationally recognized for quality education and innovations in teaching and assessment.

Strategies:

• Facilitate scholarship in education through faculty development efforts.
• Include educational scholarship in faculty performance evaluations and in promotion and tenure considerations.
• Provide training in educational pedagogy to graduate and post-graduate students.
• Disseminate educational research through publications and invited presentations.
• Take a leadership role in campus-based interprofessional education initiatives.

Goal 3

To identify, attract and enroll highly qualified students to create a talented and diverse student body.

Strategies:

• Admit highly qualified applicants who have a record of academic excellence, superior communications skills and a history of active involvement in extracurricular activities.
• Increase the pool of under represented minority applicants through institutional partnerships, articulation agreements, and outreach activities in schools and communities.
• Identify students who will thrive in a team learning environment and enhance the educational experience of others because of their unique individual qualities, characteristics, and experiences.
• Provide merit-based and need-based scholarships to recruit a highly qualified student body that more closely reflects the diverse population of southern California.

Goal 4

To produce graduates who are recognized for their professional competence, their ethical character, their personal initiative, and their leadership abilities.

Strategies:

• Conduct graduate and alumni surveys to track employment and career pathways.
• Conduct employer surveys to gauge employer satisfaction with program graduates.
• Track involvement of graduates in professional organizations, leadership activities, and participation in educational programs.
• Monitor statistics on state and national licensure examinations to ensure that graduates maintain passing rates in excess of 90% and take corrective actions if there is evidence of a decline.

Goal 5

To develop and become nationally-recognized for our graduate and postgraduate training programs (e.g., graduate degree and joint degree programs, postdoctoral fellowships, and pharmacy residencies).

Strategies:

• Identify funding to support an increase in the number of residents and fellows with the goal of having one resident or fellow for each faculty member in the Department of Pharmacy Practice & Administration.
• Identify funding to support an increase in the number of graduate students with the goal of having one or more graduate students for each faculty member in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences.
• Develop training and certificate programs for graduate and postgraduate students in teaching effectiveness.
• Develop graduate program options including joint degree programs.
• Track and record career pathways and accomplishments of our residency, fellowship, masters and PhD graduates.
• Work closely with the Graduate College of Biomedical Sciences to create a strong infrastructure to support PhD graduate education and training.
• Aggressively seek ASHP accreditation for new and existing residency programs.

Goal 6

To foster interdepartmental and interprofessional collaboration through development of a center for translational pharmacy research.

Strategies:

• Create a center and core laboratory that supports both diverse and complementary research activities including: pharmaceutical, translational, educational, pharmacy practice, outcomes, and clinical epidemiology research.
• Hire a world-class scholar and center director to advance our research goals.
• Identify start-up funds to provide essential equipment and laboratory support personnel.
• Apply for capital funds through foundations and corporate partners for renovation of Health Professions Center space to accommodate research center and associated offices.

Goal 7

To rank in the top 10% of all private pharmacy schools in our research endeavors.

Strategies:

• Recruit well established and funded faculty who can add significantly to our research productivity.
• Provide start-up packages (salary, equipment, facilities, productivity-based incentives) that are sufficient to attract and retain NIH funded faculty.
• Increase amount of NIH research support to 60% of funded research.
• Invest in technology, space, equipment and infrastructure to improve research productivity of existing and future faculty.
• The successful implementation of a PhD program is essential to our success as a research active institution.
• Intermediate measures of success include NIH funding, other competitive grant funding, increase in grant submissions, increase in peer reviewed publications, participation on NIH review panels; participation in national and international research forums.

Goal 8

To annually generate revenue from external sources that will support our strategic goals and provide unrestricted funds to allow us to respond to special opportunities and critical needs.

Strategies:

• Encourage a tradition of giving among our alumni with a nominal request of our most recent graduates; growing over time as their capacity for giving increases.
• Identify strategic partnerships with corporations and industry to provide financial support of our strategic goals, including: naming opportunities for offices suites, research space, classrooms, student teaching laboratories, and conference rooms.
• Recognize corporate and industry sponsors, significant alumni gifts, scholarship support and other benefactors through our alumni newsletter and other publications.
• Develop business plans for contract-based services and a campus-based pharmacy that would enhance our cash flow while supporting our teaching, research, and service mission.

Goal 9

To develop and strengthen productive collaborations between the college and its external constituencies.

Strategies:

• Build strong relationships with alumni, prospective donors, health care organizations, and educational partners through improvements in electronic communications, public relations activities, website enhancements.
• Support the educational development of voluntary faculty and staff development efforts at affiliated teaching sites.
• Increase participation of alumni and voluntary faculty in campus-related activities including teaching, seminars, student mentoring, College committees, student recruitment and student interviews.
• Develop international exchange programs for faculty and students to promote collaborations in teaching, practice and research.

Goal 10

To contribute to advancement of the pharmacy profession through service and leadership at local, state, national, and international levels.

Strategies:

• Encourage and support faculty participation in professional and scientific organizations through service as officers, involvement in committees, and through leadership opportunities.
• Take an active role in policy development through professional and scientific organizations and governmental agencies.
• Collaborate with professional associations, consumer organizations and health care groups to advance the profession of pharmacy.
• Encourage faculty involvement in community service organizations, demonstrating civic commitment and responsibility.

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Approved: COP Faculty April 26, 2007