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For students enrolled at UMES – especially the charter class that graduated this spring – official recognition by ACPE is an affirmation by peers that the university’s curriculum and training meet rigorous professional standards.
“Attaining full accreditation is truly a significant achievement in the growth of our pharmacy program,” said Dr. Nicholas Blanchard, founding dean of the UMES School of Pharmacy.
“The hard work and dedication of our faculty, staff and students, along with the support from the university and the community has enabled us to reach this important milestone,” Blanchard said.
UMES enrolled its first class of pharmacy students in August 2010 and awarded 57 doctorates May 17. UMES offers a year-round or “accelerated program that enables students to earn a Pharm.D. degree in three years instead of the traditional four.”
Today’s announcement is a capstone to President Juliette B. Bell’s first year in office.
“This certainly is exciting news for the entire university community,” Bell said. “It is a reflection of the excellent work Dean Blanchard, the faculty and our dedicated students put into achieving this important milestone in our journey toward achieving academic eminence. I congratulate everyone in the School of Pharmacy on a job well done.”
UMES now has 27 academic programs with peer-review accreditation credentials.
"This is a great day for the university," said Dr. Ron Nykiel, UMES chief academic officer. "Pharmacy accreditation is one of the most difficult to receive."
Nykiel noted that with UMES' business school earning international accreditation in 2011 and the PGA golf management program recently receiving a similar credential, today's announcement "will bring attention to our high-quality programs. It shows what a complete university UMES is."
The ACPE accredits doctor of pharmacy programs at colleges and schools of pharmacy in the United States and at selected non-U.S. sites. For a new doctor of pharmacy program, ACPE accreditation generally involves three steps: pre-candidate status, candidate status and full accreditation.
Pre-candidate status is awarded to a new program that has not yet enrolled students and authorizes an institution to admit its first class. To achieve candidate status, a doctor of pharmacy program must have students enrolled, but has not yet had a graduating class.
A pharmacy school becomes eligible to be considered for full accreditation when it has produced its first graduating class and demonstrates it meets standards set forth by the national council.
In mid-July, the next class of doctoral candidates – UMES’ fourth – will enroll in the university's School of Pharmacy.
The Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education is the national agency for the accreditation of professional degree programs in pharmacy and providers of continuing pharmacy education. The council sets standards for the education of pharmacists to prepare them for the delivery of pharmacist-provided patient care
The Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education is located at 20 North Clark Street, Suite 2500, Chicago, Ill. 60602-5109. For more information about ACPE, visit its website at www.acpe-accredit.org, call (312) 664-3575, or fax (312) 664-4652.
Bill Robinson, director, office of public relations, (410) 621-2355.
Interesting how they had to include a picture of a Muslim in it.
ReplyDeleteThat's good news for the university. They have several programs gaining national recognition now.
ReplyDelete7:54 Check out your local Rite Aids, Wal-Greens and CVS pharmacies. Look who's filling your scripts.
ReplyDelete754, I actually know that student. A hardworker, good student, and active community volunteer. I bet she's done more good than alot of you or your kids. So YES, I'm glad she was included! Just because plenty of terrorists are muslim doesn't mean that most muslims are terrorist/bad people.
ReplyDelete8:41 fool...
ReplyDeleteThey will turn on Americans in a heartbeat to promote their cult.(or save their own butts from it)
I look at it as Government sanctioned Islamic infiltration.
8:41 you are a sad individual and paranoid too
ReplyDelete846, yes because all muslims are out to get you. moohaha. Nevermind there are plenty of muslims fighting and dying both within and as allies to our armed forces.
ReplyDeleteSuggestion, take a ride off the Eastern Shore and you'll see there is a whole wide world out there. Then again, just take a trip to UMES to meet some of the muslim students/faculty.
Sorry, I meant 8:46.
ReplyDeleteA great accomplishment for the school and the graduates. Congratulations!
ReplyDelete7:54. Yeah. Interesting how they included black, white, male and female students too. What's your point exactly?
ReplyDeleteWhat's more sad Alex and others is that in your opinions 7:54 doesn't have a right to their opinion without being demonized.
ReplyDeleteIt's all about diversity isn't it? Diversity means different. Just because someone may feel one way about Muslims others feel another way-It's called diversity.
But of course in your public school social engineering brainwashing "education" diversity is only taught in one form and to have only one meaning.
Social engineering/brainwashing is taking a word such as diversity and instead of teaching it as it's true form it's been turned into a concept.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous said...
ReplyDelete754, I actually know that student. A hardworker, good student, and active community volunteer. I bet she's done more good than alot of you or your kids. So YES, I'm glad she was included! Just because plenty of terrorists are muslim doesn't mean that most muslims are terrorist/bad people.
June 27, 2013 at 8:41 AM
You don't know me you fool. I can guarantee you I have volunteered and done more good for the community than that Muslim, you and your children. It's liberal people like you that put your guards down and let the Muslim Brotherhood infiltrate our White House.
If this Towelhead is such a hard worker and community volunteer how come this is the first time I have seen her?
Community volunteer? Is that anything like a community organizer?
LOL, it's obvious you know "0" about the student. Sorry but I also haven't heard of you. According to your logic, you must be either sitting on your couch all day or be apart of the MB too. Obviously if you walk around espousing the kind of blind fear and hatred you've shown against this young woman after seeing her picture at a college graduation, you are likely doing more harm in this world than good.
ReplyDeleteWow. Too bad the xenophobes have put a damper on UMES's accomplishments. That school has come a long way in the last 30 years.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous said...
ReplyDeleteWow. Too bad the xenophobes have put a damper on UMES's accomplishments. That school has come a long way in the last 30 years.
June 27, 2013 at 1:22 PM
Is that your opinion or do you know that for a fact. I know professors there that will tell you different.
They will tell you the diploma's mean nothing and the students are pushed through. Many won't pass the pharmacy program, the PT program or the PA program because they fail out. Your atypical students to that campus are the only ones passing their programs.