AACP Open Membership Model and New Member Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

The new AACP Open Membership Model will provide complimentary individual membership for individuals affiliated with U.S. colleges and schools of pharmacy who have substantial roles, which includes the following categories:

• Administrators, faculty, professional staff; full- or part-time; paid directly by college or school of pharmacy.
• Administrators, faculty, professional staff; full- or part-time, paid by another unit of the university where a college or school of pharmacy exists.  For example, librarians based in college of pharmacy but paid by LIS, IT staff based in college of pharmacy but paid by campus IT, development and philanthropy staff supporting college of pharmacy but paid by development office, etc.  
• Post-docs, graduate students, Pharm.D. students, fellows or residents paid a stipend or salary, including work-study income, by a college or school of pharmacy. 
• Individuals paid by entity outside the university, but who serve a significant role in the college or school of pharmacy (e.g., service on committees, providing lectures, providing other classroom or laboratory instruction, etc.), with or without being granted a clinical or adjunct faculty title or appointment (courtesy or otherwise).  This may include experiential education preceptors, provided they play other significant roles in the college or school of pharmacy. 

Every CEO dean will have some discretion with respect to the inclusion of individuals with a “significant role” in their college or school of pharmacy, with the understanding that we hope to be as inclusive as possible in offering complimentary membership to those who would benefit from it.  In the future, the AACP Board of Directors will re-evaluate the inclusion of other groups of individuals for inclusion as complementary membership.

Pharmacy trainees (e.g., PharmD and Graduate Students, Residents, Fellows, Post-Docs) are eligible for complimentary individual AACP membership under the Open Membership Model, provided they are paid a stipend or salary, including work-study income, by the college or school of pharmacy.  The AACP Board of Directors is considering an expansion of the complimentary membership for all students in the future, but at this time, students and other pharmacy trainees who are not paid by the institution are still eligible to join AACP by paying dues of $15 per year.  More information about this membership category can be found at https://www.aacp.org/article/student-membership.  If you fall into this category and your name is submitted to AACP for the complimentary membership by your school, you will be sent the Welcome email in June with your membership information. If you are applying for the Aspiring Academic program, and believe that you qualify for the complimentary student membership, please contact AACP for assistance.

An email with instructions for reviewing and adding eligible individuals for AACP membership through the new AACP Open Membership Model will be sent out to all CEO Deans at all U.S. colleges and schools of pharmacy in late April 2025.  The CEO Deans will also be provided with a requested date to send this information back to AACP.  All individuals who are not currently an AACP member and who are identified by their CEO Dean will have their information uploaded to the AACP membership database. Once all new AACP members information has been uploaded to the AACP membership database, a Welcome to AACP Email will be sent to all members with information on how to set up their member profile and information on how to begin their AACP member journey.  AACP anticipates the Welcome to AACP email will be sent in mid-June 2025. 

All those who are current AACP individual members, and individuals who are included in the AACP Open Membership Model, are eligible to serve on an AACP committee.

If you are not yet an AACP member, you will need to  set-up a member profile so that you can volunteer to serve.  To start that process, please send an email to mail@aacp.org with the email Subject of ‘2025 AACP Volunteers’.  In the email, please include your name, title, college or school of pharmacy, and email address.  AACP will enter your information in our membership database and will respond to your ‘2025 AACP Volunteers’ email with information on how to set-up your member profile.  Once your member profile is completed, you will be able to complete the Call for 2025 AACP Committee Volunteers as an AACP member.

Please note that the call for 2025 AACP Committee Volunteers is open until Sunday, April 27, 2025.  Therefore, please send your request to mail @aacp.org no later than Wednesday, April 23, 2025, to allow sufficient time for AACP staff to respond to you and for your completion of the Call for Committee Volunteers form.  

There is one registration rate, the AACP member rate, for the 2025 AACP Annual Meeting in Chicago. Please visit the Pharmacy Education 2025 webpage for more information.

Once you have received the Welcome to AACP email, you will immediately begin receiving all AACP member communications. When you update your member profile, you will have the opportunity to join member groups, including Sections and Special Interest Groups to begin receiving information and communications from these specialized groups. 

AACP offers unique benefits, services, and opportunities for individual members such as challenging and relevant educational programming, online member communities, publications, and partnership initiatives that are designed with you in mind. Please see a full list of individual membership benefits here: https://www.aacp.org/article/individual-membership