Please join us for the 2025 AACP Admissions Workshop in Chicago!
We invite all administrators, faculty, and staff who play a role in recruitment, admissions, retention, and student affairs to this two-day event. The goal of the Workshop is to provide attendees with the opportunity to learn and network, so the academy can collectively promote the profession and respond to challenges facing pharmacy education.
Workshop sessions highlight how institutions are leveraging emerging or innovative technologies to enhance prospective student experiences and streamline admissions processes, including AI-driven initiatives; learning creative marketing strategies to reach diverse audiences through social media, CRM (Customer Relationship Management) systems, and other budget-friendly tactics; and finding ways to boost yield by improving interviews, addressing financial concerns, and engaging with school counselors. Plus, don’t miss our recruitment showcase, featuring hands-on, interactive activities during this show-&-tell roundtable event. Don’t miss this exciting and engaging experience!
The Workshop will precede the 2025 Annual Meeting. Additional details about programming, WebAdMIT training, and registration will be available by spring 2025.
- Friday, July 18, 2025: Workshop Programming
- Saturday, July 19, 2025: Workshop Programming
Proposals Deadline: Friday, January 17, 2025 at 11:59 pm Hawaii Time (HT).
Session Categories
- Emerging or Innovative Technologies for Recruitment & Admissions. Presentations will focus on how institutions are leveraging technology to enhance prospective student experiences across various channels, improve the application review process for admissions teams, analyze data to more effectively direct recruitment efforts, and more. Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven initiatives are encouraged.
- Marketing Strategies. Presentations will focus on innovative social media uses, effectively using a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) system, best practices on capturing your intended audience (e.g., engaging a broad audience versus targeted content for specific audiences, like first-generation students), and more. Fiscally feasible strategies for institutions working with no or low budget are encouraged.
- Recruitment Showcase. What creative activities does your institution use to promote the pharmacy profession to various audiences? Submit your hands-on, interactive recruitment activities (e.g., escape room, simulation activities, student trivia/games, etc.) that will be conducted with attendees in our recruitment show-&-tell, roundtable event.
- Increasing Your Yield. Presentations will focus on ways to increase yield and decrease melt through more meaningful interviews, discussing the financial implications of pharmacy school, engaging with school counselors, and more.
Submission Guidelines
- All Workshop proposals must be submitted online by Friday, January 17, 2025 at 11:59 pm Hawaii Time (HT).
- The Workshop submission form differs from the Annual Meeting submission form (open through November 21).
- AACP members and non-members are eligible to submit, but non-members must be associated with a member institution.
- Individuals may submit more than one session proposal for the Workshop.
- Submitters must create a separate Save & Return login account for each proposal.
- AACP will share decisions on Workshop proposals by March 1, 2025.
- AACP may ask submitters with similar proposals to collaborate on a joint session.
- All invited speakers must agree to attend the onsite program, register, and pay to attend the 2025 Admissions Workshop, and are responsible for their own travel expenses.
- There will be NO online participation options for attendees or speakers at the 2025 Annual Meeting or Admissions Workshop.
Review Criteria
The Admissions Workshop Advisory Committee will review session proposals and will consider the following criteria:
The session proposal…
- is well-written and describes the session clearly,
- has clear and appropriate learning objectives,
- properly addresses the selected topic in a unique or innovative manner,
- includes aspects of diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, accessibility, and/or well-being, and,
- will be presented by individuals who likely have the necessary expertise.
Important Reminders
- Session Times: Traditional session times will be offered for either 25-minute (1 school) or 50-minute (2+ schools) blocks. For the Recruitment Showcase, exact times/format are TBD, based on submissions received. We will follow-up with submitted proposals.
- Limited or No Outcomes Data: While we strongly encourage you to share any available outcomes data, we recognize that not all activities will directly correlate with applications, enrollment, success, or retention. Please share your innovative ways to engage, assess, and support prospective students at every level, regardless of whether the effect of those efforts on the institution or individuals is yet known.
Questions
Please contact the AACP student affairs team at cas@aacp.org.