Diversity in Student Recruitment and Retention Advisory Committee
You Belong Here: Diverse Student Recruitment Guide
While discussions of belonging often center around retaining current students, it is crucial to integrate belonging into recruitment to foster a more inclusive student body. This guide introduces innovative recruitment strategies aimed at fostering inclusivity and support throughout the recruitment process. Key strategies outlined in the guide include uncovering the hidden curriculum, building relationships and an inclusive environment, using inclusive language, normalizing difficulties, highlighting support resources, and sending an authentic message about the institutions’ culture, policies, and practices.
Office of Minority Health Project
The Pharmacy Guide to Student Loan Forgiveness/Repayment Programs
To retain minority students in pharmacy schools, the financial burden must be alleviated, and student pharmacists need to be more aware of loan repayment programs to help alleviate this burden. This guide, developed for student pharmacists, and pharmacists, aims to increase awareness of various loan repayment programs that reduce and eliminate this financial burden.
Professional Affairs
Integration of Clinical Pharmacy Faculty in Professional Practice Care Settings
A reference to establish and re-establish partnerships that support mutual goals in education and practice as well as serve to advance careers and the practice of pharmacy. This guide may be particularly helpful for new administrators and faculty who may be changing or starting new practice sites. The guide is organized into sections based on key users. The guide includes sections on: Culture/Needs Assessment, Payment and Practice Plan Models, and Value Proposition.
Professionalism on Social Media
Social Media Resource Guide for Faculty, Students, Staff, and Administrators
Explore the benefits, risks, and ethics associated with social media use in pharmacy education. The guide addresses gaps in current social media policies, provides case examples and related resources, and culminates in a list of suggestions for institutions, individuals and AACP.
Student Affairs
Creating a Culture of Well-Being: A Resource Guide for Colleges and Schools of Pharmacy
Developed by the 2021–2022 Student Affairs Committee, the guide details a process by which schools can explore their specific needs related to well-being and then address these challenges through a continuous cycle of organizational change, with a focus on changes to policies and practices and a redesign of the work environment.
Strategic Engagement Committee
Advocacy Guide for Pharmacy Practice and Education
Inspired by Guide for Pharmacy Advocacy, created by the 2022-2023 Council of Deans Community Engagement Task Force, the 2023-2024 Strategic Engagement Committee has developed a guide which offers examples of strategies, resources, and tools that can be used to facilitate advocacy planning advocacy champions and academy members.
Vaccine Confidence Campaign
AACP Event Planning Guide
Learn about AACP’s work on the CDC-funded vaccine confidence project. Access the event toolkit, timelines and additional resources.