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The mission of the Thomas J. Long School of Pharmacy is to prepare students for lifelong success in health careers by providing an excellent, student-centered learning environment. We aspire to develop leadership skills in our students and a strong commitment to their professions, interprofessional collaboration and society. These efforts are assisted by linkages across 91³ÉÈ˵¼º½ professional and liberal arts programs. We support outstanding professional and graduate teaching, research and other scholarly activity and services as a means of achieving our mission.

The Pharmacy program of the Thomas J. Long School of Pharmacy will be among the top 25 percent of private pharmacy schools in the United States—nationally and internationally recognized as a source of pharmacists and pharmaceutical scientists of exceptional ability who can effectively contribute to the health care team and system through the optimization of patient outcomes and scholarly work—and will be distinguished by innovative student-centered teaching, interprofessional education experiences and curricular programming, research and service.

At the Thomas J. Long School of Pharmacy, we consistently strive to achieve and promote the following values:

• Accountability — recognizing that as health care professionals, we are patient-centered and responsible to help our patients optimize their health outcomes;
• Critical thinking and problem-solving — developing effective leaders and citizens of our communities and the world as providers and consumers of health care and members of our profession;
• Discovery — recognizing the obligation of the academy, contributing through discovery and scholarly activity to knowledge in the fields of pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences;
• Ethics — in all of our interactions so that our teaching, practice, research, leadership and service are above reproach;
• Excellence — in practice, academics (both teaching and learning), research, service and leadership;
• Human dignity — recognizing that every individual deserves respect and will at different times both struggle and excel;
• Professionalism — encouraging integrity as an essential part of pharmacy practice, research and education;
• Student-centeredness — encouraging and fostering academic and professional interactions between students and faculty, both inside and outside of the classroom; and
• Quality improvement — developing and utilizing measurable quality assessment techniques along with best practices to inform decision-making and enhance the quality of our programs.