Diversity in Student Recruitment and Retention Advisory Committee

You Belong Here: Diverse Student Recruitment Guide

While discussions of belonging often center around retaining current students, it is crucial to integrate belonging into recruitment to foster a more inclusive student body. This guide introduces innovative recruitment strategies aimed at fostering inclusivity and support throughout the recruitment process. Key strategies outlined in the guide include uncovering the hidden curriculum, building relationships and an inclusive environment, using inclusive language, normalizing difficulties, highlighting support resources, and sending an authentic message about the institutions’ culture, policies, and practices.

Office of Minority Health Project 

The Pharmacy Guide to Student Loan Forgiveness/Repayment Programs

To retain minority students in pharmacy schools, the financial burden must be alleviated, and student pharmacists need to be more aware of loan repayment programs to help alleviate this burden. This guide, developed for student pharmacists, and pharmacists, aims to increase awareness of various loan repayment programs that reduce and eliminate this financial burden.

Professional Affairs

Integration of Clinical Pharmacy Faculty in Professional Practice Care Settings

A reference to establish and re-establish partnerships that support mutual goals in education and practice as well as serve to advance careers and the practice of pharmacy. This guide may be particularly helpful for new administrators and faculty who may be changing or starting new practice sites. The guide is organized into sections based on key users. The guide includes sections on: Culture/Needs Assessment, Payment and Practice Plan Models, and Value Proposition.

Professionalism on Social Media

Social Media Resource Guide for Faculty, Students, Staff, and Administrators

Explore the benefits, risks, and ethics associated with social media use in pharmacy education. The guide addresses gaps in current social media policies, provides case examples and related resources, and culminates in a list of suggestions for institutions, individuals and AACP.

Student Affairs

Creating a Culture of Well-Being: A Resource Guide for Colleges and Schools of Pharmacy

Developed by the 2021–2022 Student Affairs Committee, the guide details a process by which schools can explore their specific needs related to well-being and then address these challenges through a continuous cycle of organizational change, with a focus on changes to policies and practices and a redesign of the work environment.

Strategic Engagement Committee

Advocacy Guide for Pharmacy Practice and Education

Inspired by Guide for Pharmacy Advocacy, created by the 2022-2023 Council of Deans Community Engagement Task Force, the 2023-2024 Strategic Engagement Committee has developed a guide which offers examples of strategies, resources, and tools that can be used to facilitate advocacy planning advocacy champions and academy members. Based on 2024 Annual Meeting Focus Group conversations and suggestions made by the 2024–2025 SEC Committee,
the guide was further modified.

Advocacy Activities Catalog

Designed to showcase a wide range of advocacy-related initiatives led by faculty, staff, and student pharmacists. By organizing abstract submissions around common elements such as focus areas, collaborators, outcomes, and levels of engagement, the tool helps users identify strategies, explore new ideas, and find inspiration for their own advocacy work.

Vaccine Confidence Campaign

AACP Event Planning Guide

Learn about AACP’s work on the CDC-funded vaccine confidence project. Access the event toolkit, timelines and additional resources.

 

The American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) is collaborating with researchers from the Texas A&M University Irma Lerma Rangel College of Pharmacy on a grant funded by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Office of Minority Health and Health Equity (OMHHE) Innovation award: Covid-19 and Health Equity project: Pharmacy Advances Clinical Trials (PACT) Network to Achieve Diversity in COVID Clinical Trials: A Strategic Framework.

As part of the project, AACP is collecting information from pharmacy schools about activities aimed at increasing the diversity of clinical trial participants to develop a comprehensive picture of current activities and available resources within pharmacy education.

The information collected will be used to create a public resource and develop training materials related to pharmacy and clinical trial diversity.

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. We offer various membership types to provide opportunities to professionals at every stage of their development.

Upholding interprofessional education and practice transformation, pharmacy foundations are bolstering pharmacists working to improve health outcomes. The communal need for pharmacists may be more evident than ever before, as the pandemic highlighted their role in strengthening public health.

AACP has blocked rooms at the Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center for the 2022 AACP Annual Meeting, July 23-27, in Grapevine, Texas, for attendees to enjoy exceptional lodging during the meeting. After registering for Pharmacy Education 2022, you will receive information to book your hotel accommodations, including room rates, a direct reservation link and more.

 

Research by Midwestern University College of Pharmacy professors explored the pandemic’s effect on students’ emotional intelligence. Many questions linger about the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and its lasting effects on students, the workforce, the economy, and the mental and physical repercussions that are still coming to light. When classes were forced to go virtual, students missed out on face-to-face connections with peers as well as professors and patients.