WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY Board of Governors ACADEMIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE March 21, 2014 Minutes The meeting was called to order at 10:40 a.m. by Governor Dunaskiss in the Jewett Lab of the Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. Secretary Miller called the roll. A quorum was present. Committee Members Present: Governors Dingell, Dunaskiss, Massaron, Pollard and Trent; Jane Fitzgibbon, Faculty Alternate Representative, Brandon Shamoun, Student Alternate Representative. Committee Members Absent: Linda Beale, Faculty Representative, Nicholas Board, Student Alternate Representative. Also Present: Governors Driker, O'Brien and Nicholson, President Wilson; Vice Presidents Lessem, Lindsey, Nork, Ratner, Ripple, Staebler and Wright, and Secretary Miller APPROVAL OF MINUTES, FEBRUARY7, 2014 \ ACTION - Upon motion by Governor Pollard and seconded by Governor Massaron, the Minutes of the February 7, 2014 meeting were approved as submitted. The motion carried. Governor Dunaskiss called upon Associate Provost and Associate Vice President for Undergraduate Affairs, Joseph Rankin, representing Provost Margaret Winters, to bring forth the recommendations on the discontinuance of two programs. DISCONTINUANCE OF THE GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN PEDIATRIC GLOBAL HEALTH The Graduate Certificate in Pediatric Global Health is being recommended for discontinuance as of spring semester 2014. The number of certificates awarded has declined each year since the program's induction and no students have registered for this program since the 2010-2011 academic year. The discontinuance of this program has been approved by faculty Associate Dean Stanley Terlecky of the School of Medicine, Graduate Dean Ambika Mathur, and the Graduate Counsel. DISCONTINUANCE OF THE MASTER OF SCIENCE IN PSYCHIATRY AND BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCES The recommendation to discontinue the Master of Science in Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience is based upon recent and projected low productivity. The accreditation Council of 1164
1165 Academic Affairs Committee the Graduate Medical Education has recently established restrictive duty hour regulations which has led to the decline in student enrollment in this program. The last term in which a student registered for the program was winter 2007. No students are currently in this program and the discontinuance of this program has been approved by the faculty and the chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Dean Stanley Terlecky, and Graduate Dean Ambika Mathur. Action on both recommendations was taken in the following motion: MOTION: Upon motion by Governor Massaron and seconded by Governor Dingell, the Academic Affairs Committee recommended that the Board of Governors approve the discontinuance of the Graduate Certificate in Pediatric Global Health program and the Master of Science in Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosdences program ~oth effective spring semester, 2014. The motion passed. UPDATE ON EUGENE APPLEBAUM COLLEGE OF PHARMACY AND HEAL TH SCIENCES. Two members of the leadership team represented Dean Lloyd Young for a presentation on the Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. Dr. Howard Normile, Associate Dean of the Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (EACPHS) began the discussion with an overview of the college. The college is, functionally divided into two divisions, the division of Pharmacy and. the division of Health Sciences. Within the division of Pharmacy, there are two departments, Phatmacy Practice and Pharmaceutical Sciences. Within the division of Health Sciences there ~re. also.two departments, Healthcare Sciences and Fundamental Applied Sciences. Dr. Normile's focused on programs in the division of Health Sciences. Dr. Normile highlighted enrollment over the past four years (2011-2014) for the Health Science Program. Before discussing the numbers, he reviewed the undergrad/grad programs and the requirements of each. In reviewing the total headcount for the last four years, there were some fluctuations but overall, enrollment has been stable across all programs. Dr. Normile commented that in comparison to any other period in the history of the program, enrollment during this current 4-year period is the highest. In general the number of applicants far exceeds the number of admitted students. The Physician Assistant Studies program has the highest ratio of admitted students, about 7 applicants for every one position. Roughly 25% to 30% of the applicants that apply are not eligible for admission because they fail to meet the GPA or GRE score criteria. The undergraduate programs' attrition rate is a bit higher than graduate programs' attrition rates. Attrition rates are low in all programs and have been relatively stable over the past five years. The number of graduates has remained consistent over the past 5-year period. Total graduates for 2014 is 213, the highest of any 5-year period in the history of the college. Dr. Normile then discussed the projected change in employment from 2012-2022 as estimated by the U.S. Department of Labor. In order of percentages, the Physician Assistant Studies, Pathologists' Assistant, Physical Therapy and Nurse Anesthesia programs fell within the 30% or higher range while the Occupational Therapy, Radiation Therapy, Technology, Clinical
Academic Affairs Committee 1166 Laboratory Sciences and Radiologic Technology programs were in the 20%-29% range and the Mortuary Science program fell within the 10%-19% range. In closing, Dr. Normile added that all programs go through an accreditation process and each has its own accrediting body. All are fully accredited. Due to the number of programs within the EACPHS, there may often be more than one site visit or self-study occurring each year. In terms of the location of EACPHS graduates, the large majority are in the state of Michigan, with the majority of those in Michigan residing in southeast Michigan. Governor Driker felt that it may be time to reallocate resources to grow the Physician Assistant Studies program, specifically because of the number of students that apply to the program and because this particular program has the highest potential for employment opportunities. Dr. Normile cited challenges that would impede increasing enrollment of this program, one of which is a finding from the accrediting body, which cited the program for reductions in staffing and capped enrollment at 50 students. President Wilson advjsed that he will review the program with Dean Young. Governor Massaron requested a breakdown by ethnicity and race for each program in the college for a future discussion regarding accessibility of African American and Hispanic students to these programs. Governor Dunaskiss asked if the Radiologist Assistant Studies program (MS) has been eliminated. Dr. Normile advised that when the Radiologic Technology undergrad program was established seven or eight years ago, thei decision was made to include the masters level program (Radiologist Assistant Studies) even though the college realized that enrollment would be very small. The rationale behind that is,:, there is an initiative to have RAs identified by Medicare for billing. This initiative is being lobbied in Michigan and Washington, DC. Once that happens, there will be a dramatic, increase in the popularity of the graduate program because the RTs with a bachelor's d~gree will then need to have a master's degree in order for physicians or hospitals to bill for them. While the implementation may have been premature, the thought was to implement two programs at once to be more efficient knowing that enrollment will not likely increase until the change occurs. Dr. Normile completed his portion of the presentation by discussing at ways the college is looking at becoming more efficient in terms of utilizing classroom space. Chief among the space concerns is research space. Brian Crabtree, chair of the department of Pharmacy Practice, continued the presentation, focusing on the professional degree program in pharmacy. He reviewed the PharmD program enrollment data from 2010 to present which showed a significant increase for each year. The data for 2014 revealed 390 students enrolled. The target enrollment is 100 admissions per year. It is expected that 100 will graduate this year and 100 will begin the program in the fall, if the program can achieve retention and on-time graduation goals. Mirroring national trends, applicants to the PharmD program have declined slightly over the past 5 years. Like most schools and colleges, Pharmacy programs use a centralized application
1167 Academic Affairs Committee survey otherwise known as PharmCast and the number of applicants in PharmCast is more or less flat, but in looking at the number of qualified applicants, the program is growing slightly. The ratio of qualified applicants to accepted applicants in the program is 2.3 to 1. The program boasts a very well-qualified entering class and a qualified alternate list. The chair indicated that the program's on-time graduation rate is excellent and is approaching 100%. Over the last 8 years, the retention rate is above 90%. Dr. Crabtree advised that even in this era of economic decline, beginning with the last several years, there is an increase in the cumulative graduation class among the 130 pharmacy programs in the United States. The total is approaching about 14,000 applicants. The aggregate demand index for pharmacists in most metropolitan areas is about 3 which. indicates that demand equals supply in rural underserved areas. In underserved areas, it may be slightly above 3, and in other areas, it may be slightly below 3. More than 80% of our graduates have offers of employment at graduation, and 60% of our graduates are located in southeastern Michigan. Dr. Crabtree stated that this is his fifth academic pharmacy institute affiliation. Based on his network with the National Institute of Pharmacy, he does not think that any program has more of an impact on this state than Wayne State University. He also offered that the vast majority of the program's students come from the Southeastern Michigan community and the majority of graduates remain in southeastern Michigan. He commented on the high praise he receive.d from both the health systems environment and community pharmacy environment stakeholders about students, faculty and grads in the PharmD program. Dr. Crabtree indicated that 60% of the students go into community pharmacy while the remaining 40% go into advance training through post-graduate residency, post-graduate degree programs, or into a variety of health system, ambulatory clinics and managed care and other forms of practice. In terms of diversity, Dr. Crabtree indicated that there are some pipeline issues in terms of qualified applicants and he feels that we could do much better with respect to capturing qualified underrepresented minority candidates. Although invitations were extended to 8 minority applicants, only two black students, one African American and one Nigerian, accepted and were admitted in this year's fall 2013 class. Dr. Crabtree said that one of the areas of limitation for the program is scholarship resources needed to capture talented candidates of any type, including underrepresented minorities. He speculated that many students likely go to other programs and neighboring institutions who offer more generous scholarship and financial aid packages. While a more attractive financial aid and scholarship package would be helpful, Dr. Crabtree admitted that it won't solve the problem of reaching out to the community in a more affirmative way to develop underrepresented minority candidates. He commented that that there are fewer Latino/Hispanic students than African Americans. He further commented that 30 Arab Americans were admitted into the fall 2013 entering class. He closed his remarks by stating that there is a pipeline system for them that is outstanding, and he wished that a similar pipeline was in place for other underrepresented minority students.
Academic Affairs Committee 1168 Governor Dingell requested an ethnic breakdown of students that applied to the program. Dr. Crabtree will provide that data to the Board of Governors. Dr. Crabtree suggested establishing an improved mentorship program for underrepresented minority students on main campus and other feeder schools, i.e. U of M-Dearborn, Oakland University and some of the community colleges. He further suggested that more outreach initiatives be invested in the Detroit Public Schools and the city of Detroit in order to cultivate and capture the interest and imagination of talented, young and underrepresented minority students. Governor Dunaskiss inquired if there is a way to partner with local pharmacies to hire talented teenagers from public schools to work in a drug store or other related pharmacy fields in an effort to generate an interest in pharmacy. She also asked if our local pharmacies contribute toward scholarships and if we have approached pharmacies to form scholarships for students. To the first question, Dr. Crabtree responded that a network is not in place at this time. He said there is an active group of pharmacy alumni affiliate board members who may be eager to do or discuss both options. He also said that an effort has been made to reach out to the African American graduates to see if they would be willing to work with us as a gift back to the school to try to develop networking and mentoring relationships, however this effort has been less successful than the same type of initiative with the Arab American Pharmacists Associations. Dr. Crabtree indicated that there have been generous offerings of scholarships from a small number of community pharmacy-based organizations, mostly the big-box organizations such as Rite Aid and Walgreens. He also said that th.e Arab American Pharmacists Association, a group of about 225 pharmacists, all of whom either practice in or own small independent community pharmacies in the Dearborn and Dearborn tieights areas have been generous to the college.. President Wilson indicated that the University bf Colorado Denver has a very high success rate of attracting underrepresented minorities to their pharmacy school and encouraged Dr. Crabtree to research their initiatives. In closing, Governor Driker suggested that we reach out to Lansing again and emphasize how many students we graduate, and the high percentage of those graduates who remain in Southeastern Michigan, not just within the EACPHS but in the SOM, Law School and COE. ADJOURNMENT There being no further business, the meeting adjourned at 11 :09 a.m. Respectfully submitted, y}ivc-,d \»iil {)ulie Hearshen Miller Secretary to the Board of Governors