Faculty within the School of Pharmacy will be responsible for the execution of programmatic policies and procedures, design and delivery of the curriculum and assessment of curricular outcomes. The Dean of the School of Pharmacy will direct and guide the faculty in this area.

The School of Pharmacy will have three standing faculty committees. There will be a Curriculum Committee, a Pharmacy Student Affairs Committee and a Pharmacy Faculty Affairs Committee. Each will have three faculty members, one of whom will chair the committee. The Curriculum Committee and the Pharmacy Student Affairs Committee will have a voting student member. The Curriculum Committee will have a pharmacy practitioner not teaching at the School of Phramacy. Each committee will have an administrative liaison person who will not have voting privileges on the committee. The charge of the Curriculum Committee will include all curricular matters. The Pharmacy Student Affairs Committee will consider all matters affecting pharmacy students including academic actions. During committee or faculty meetings involving individual academic or disciplinary matters, the student member will be excused. The Faculty Affairs Committee will be charged to consider all faculty issues, including promotion and tenure, faculty development and research. Any item considered to be under the purview of any one of these committees must be considered by the committee before it can come to the entire faculty.for a decision. Faculty meetings are conducted by an elected president of the faculty.

Faculty meetings will be held at least monthly from September to July during the academic year. During monthly meetings there are standing committee reports provided by the Curriculum, Faculty Affairs and Pharmacy Student Affairs Committees in addition to discussion of ongoing University, College, Program and student issues. An annual retreat will be held in the spring of the academic year. The retreat focuses on a review of assessment materials, programmatic curricular issues, faculty research updates and planning sessions for the upcoming academic year.

The School of Pharmacy Advisory Board is composed of prominent pharmacists, pharmacy educators and pharmacy organization persons; this group will continue to exist after approval of the proposed program. When they meet, they will interview students.