Santosh Kumar, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, represented the College at the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) Interim Meeting in Long Beach, Calif., and took part in the Academic Leadership Fellows Program (ALFP) Debate on Feb. 26.
The topic of the debate was whether “given the changing world of faculty, tenure is still a viable and sustainable model in academic pharmacy.”
Dr. Kumar was one of 25 fellows selected from across 143 pharmacy schools after being nominated by Dean Marie Chisholm-Burns. He argued in favor of tenure and defended a question from the audience about the lack of productivity of some faculty after they receive tenure.
The Academic Leadership Fellows Program supports and contributes to the development of leaders in academic pharmacy and higher education. The program provides an opportunity for Fellows to expand relationships with peers and colleagues in other institutions, as well as within their own college and university. The ALFP curriculum is reviewed annually to ensure content is contemporary and appropriate to the programs leadership objectives. 