Goal I: Redesign and refine the structure and function of the College of Pharmacy in order to meet the needs of a dynamic academic and professional environment
  • Objective 1.1 Consolidate the structure of the College's remote clinical training sites.
    1. Develop a well-designed remote satellite campus located at the Louisiana State University Medical Center Campus in New Orleans, Louisiana.
    2. Develop a well-designed remote satellite campus located at the Louisiana State University Medical Center Campus in Shreveport, Louisiana
  • Objective 1.2 Redesign the physical layout and functionality of the College of Pharmacy (Sugar Hall) in order to meet current and future needs of the overall program.
    1. Appoint a space utilization committee within the College comprised of members from each academic department.
    2. Create an area within Sugar Hall that will provide departmental structure and offices for the department of clinical and administrative sciences.
    3. Reallocate space within Sugar Hall that will yield geographic identity for each individual department in the College of Pharmacy.
    4. Design and construct expanded administration offices within Sugar Hall that will provide adequate space for administrative and support personnel.

Goal II: Improve the deteriorating physical infrastructure of Sugar Hall (circa. 1971)

  1. Renovate the large auditorium style classroom #351.
  2. Install and support permanent state-of-the-art distance learning classroom technology and equipment in Sugar Hall, as well as the College’s satellite campuses located in New Orleans and Shreveport.
  3. Update classroom technology and equipment in all classrooms in Sugar Hall.
  4. Repair and/or replace the dysfunctional environmental control system in Sugar Hall.
  5. Replace the dysfunctional cage washer in the vivarium facility in Sugar Hall.
Goal III: Improve the security of Sugar Hall
  1. Limit after hours access to the building to faculty and essential personnel
  2. Develop an electronic entry system that limits and tracks after hour’s access
  3. Continually educate faculty and staff concerning safety and security protocols
Goal IV: Develop and continually refine curricula that meet the needs of a pharmacy student's requisite knowledge base and skill sets.
  1. Revise and update the current Doctor of Pharmacy curriculum for implementation by fall semester 2007.
    1. Charge the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and the curriculum committee with the task of revising and updating the school's Pharm.D. curriculum
    2. Provide essential resources to the Associate Dean and the curriculum committee in order to complete the task in an exemplary fashion.
  2. Develop protocols that will provide timely critical updates to the school's curriculum on a continual basis.
Goal V: Develop financial protocols and new initiatives designed to improve the school's fiscal and external communication functions.
  1. Develop an annual budgetary process for the school that will delineate the different sources of the school's annual budget. i.e. General fund, professional fees, indirect cost recovery, gifts, endowment earnings, sales and service, etc.
  2. Enhance the College's development and alumni relations initiatives.
    1. Initiate annual mail and telephone fundraising campaigns for the School.
    2. Design a major donor recruitment campaign for the College.
      1. Corporate donors.
      2. Individual donors
    3. Appoint a Dean's Advisory Council which will be comprised of key alumni, as well as other individuals representing the different segments of pharmacy.
    4. Design and publish a ULM Pharmacy Quarterly Journal.
  3. Develop and refine protocols designed to create a continual governmental educational initiative to help ensure that necessary increases in the general fund portion of the school's budget are allocated.
Goal VI: Expand the current roster of administrative and technical personnel to provide support for key functions within the School.
  1. Appoint an Assistant Dean of Operations, Technology and Assessment for the College of Pharmacy.
  2. Establish a Business Office within the school and appoint a Business Manager as head of this office. The Business Office roster will also include the Ordering/Receiving Clerk.
  3. Appoint a Director of Technology for the College of Pharmacy. A key function of this position will include technical support for the distance learning program.
  4. Appoint an Assistance Coordinator of Practice Experiences to coordinate early practice experiences and assist the coordinator with administrative responsibilities of the overall program.
Goal VII: Enhance the teaching, scholarship and service functions within the College of Pharmacy
  1. Develop an effective faculty development program which addresses the three areas listed below.
    1. Develop a senior faculty mentorship program for junior faculty
    2. Provide quality educational programs during faculty retreats and faculty seminars.
    3. Develop strategies to send faculty to annual educational meetings and symposia.
  2. Develop strategies to provide essential equipment which is deemed necessary to conduct quality research programs.
  3. Reestablish a continuing education department at the university level which will provide support for the school's continuing education programs throughout the state of Louisiana as well as the United States.


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