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School of Pharmacy Organizations
The School of Pharmacy has been organized to accomplished its various missions and administrative responsibilities. To implement the primary missions, the administrative responsibilities includes:
- Ensuring the delivery of quality educational programs for professional doctoral candidates, post-doctoral residents, practicing pharmacists, and eventually graduate students; and
- Ensuring faculty development, including the enhancement of faculty members' skills in facilitating learning, scholarship, and, where applicable, patient care services;
Although in support of the primary missions, the following areas of responsibility are of equal importance:
- Providing quality services to our clients, including the various services that enhance the learners' academic, professional, and general well-being;
- Providing quality and timely services to potential learners, including timely management of the recruitment, application and admissions process.
- Designing, developing and delivering our various patient care service responsibilities in an exemplary and cost effective manner.
- Supervision of the support services to maintain our operational infrastructure and building.
The dean, who also serves as a faculty member, has been appointed by the Board of Regents upon the recommendation of the Chancellor and President. The dean is charged with the overall responsibility for all phases of the of the School's operations.
To operate effectively and efficiently, the dean has established an administrative structure that combines traditional line and staff responsibilities with a modified "matrix management" structure. This document explains the organizational structure and responsibilities.
The basic line responsibilities for faculty and curricular development has been delegated to two departments - pharmaceutical sciences and pharmacy practice. The chairpersons of the respective departments have "line" authority and responsibility for developing and directing the faculty members within their respective disciplines and managing the delivery of the educational program. While faculty members may hold other administrative duties (e.g. assistant or associate deans, chiefs, directors, etc.), their primary appointments are as faculty members. Thus, chairs are the direct supervisors of all faculty members within their respective disciplines, even those who hold other administrative and service positions within the School. In reality, chairs and other administrators who have specific administrative or programmatic duties must work cooperatively to ensure that the comprehensive missions and responsibilities of the School are met while the faculty member is appropriately supported in his/her academic appointment.
While chair persons have responsibilities for the faculty and their academic duties, the dean's office retains the responsibility for certain programmatic areas that are key to the overall welfare of the School. These areas are critical to the external nature of the academic programs and/or support the academic mission. They include curricular affairs, academic program outcome assessment, clinical affairs, patient care services, and overall school support functions (infrastructure).
The dean has appointed assistant/associate deans to assist him with programmatic responsibilities for these various areas. The assistant/associate deans form a "matrix management" relationship with the chairpersons; the assistant/associate deans are held responsible for programmatic functions, but must work with the chairs to use the faculty to accomplish the various programs. Assistant/associate deans draw their authority from the dean, but the relationship between assistant/associate deans and the chairpersons, and ultimately the faculty, must be one of mutual cooperation and shared governance. Assistant/associate deans do not "supervise" faculty, but must rely on a cooperative relationship with chairpersons to achieve the programmatic areas for which they are being held accountable.
One area where the Dean's Office retains direct administrative responsibility is for the post PharmD residency program. Residency training is a combination of patient care and practicum training. Each resident will have experiences with the School's paid faculty, but will also have training at sites and with preceptors that are extramural. Residents will be assigned to practice faculty members who serve as their preceptors during specific time periods. The practice faculty member should directly involve the residents in the faculty member's practice; clerkship, problem-based and didactic instruction; and research, as appropriate; but, given the extramural dimension of the residency program, the resident's overall programmatic experiences will be the responsibility of the School. The Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs will be the Director for this program in addition to his other duties for oversight of the logistics of the clerkship, continuing education and other clinical affairs activities that interface with practitioners external to the School.
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