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Greetings from the School of Pharmacy at Union University!

Welcome to our website. Our hope is that this site will serve as a resource as you embark on your journey into the world of professional pharmacy education. It will provide information about our program as well as the unique learning atmosphere that you will experience at Union University, where we are truly building a different kind of pharmacy school from the ground up.

Union University has been recognized for excellence by such prestigious national publications as U. S. News and World Report, Time/Princeton Review, Peterson’s Competitive Colleges, America’s Best Christian Colleges, and others. At Union you will find education characterized by rigorous academic pursuit and authentic Christian commitment in a community of forward-thinking faculty, staff, and students committed to these ideals.

The School of Pharmacy at Union University has been established in this same great tradition, educating and equipping young pharmacists to enter practice as confident, prepared individuals motivated by excellence and a desire to serve. The challenges facing the health care community in the 21st century are numerous, and practitioners will need excellent pharmaceutical, professional, and ethical training in order to deal with these challenges. Union University will equip you to competently practice in the complex and ever changing arena of pharmacy. Further, and most significantly, pharmacy education at Union University brings forward the University’s commitment to ask important questions about faith. At Union, we will explore what the Christian faith and intellectual tradition bring to bear on the subject matter we study as pharmacists.

There are many new and exciting things happening in the School of Pharmacy. We are in the process of admitting our fourth class, the Class of 2015. The members of the inaugural class have started their Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience rotations in practice sites located throughout the state and the country. The School of Pharmacy has moved into its new home, Providence Hall, a beautiful, highly technological and innovative, state-of-the-art facility dedicated to progressive pharmacy education. A group of pharmacy faculty, staff, and students went to Belize during the January term on a very successful medical missions trip.

We are also pleased to announce that we are on schedule with the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) and have completed all required steps to date toward achieving full accreditation. Our program at Union University was awarded candidate status during the June 2009 meeting of the ACPE Board of Directors. This was a very important step for students in that all graduates of candidate-status programs are able to sit for Pharmacy licensure examinations. We look forward toward full accreditation following the graduation of our first class in the spring of 2012.

I hope that you will take the time to explore Union’s School of Pharmacy as a possibility for your professional training. I invite you not only to look around our website, but to give us a call and schedule a visit to our campus. Come and see what makes us distinctly different!

Blessings,
Sheila Mitchell, Pharm.D., FASHP
Dean, School of Pharmacy