The Office of Student Services serves as the primary information resource for both prospective and current students. The office serves prospective students and applicants through recruiting events and admission application management, while providing services to more than 500 current students. Student Services has an in-school registrar who oversees verifications of enrollment and degree, certifications of clinical training hours, residency-for-tuition-purposes applications, degree auditing, criminal history checks, and academic progressions. This office is responsible for event planning that includes Orientation, Career Day, White Coat Ceremony, Awards Day, Family Day, and Graduation. Career counseling, tutoring, and advising are also responsibilities of this office.

For more information about the Office of Student Services, please e-mail pharmacystudentservices@unc.edu or call 919-966-9429.

The Office of Recruitment and Diversity Initiatives was established in 2007 to execute the elements of the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy’s vision and the strategic plan that call for the recruitment, retention, and graduation of a diverse student population. The focus of the office is to encourage, nurture, advocate, retain, evaluate, and monitor the success of underserved and underrepresented students in the doctor of pharmacy program.

For more information, contact Carla White Harris, director of recruitment and diversity initiatives, at carla_whiteharris@unc.edu or 919-966-7571.

The Office of Curriculum and Assessment serves as the primary information resource for students, faculty, staff, and external constituents for matters related to curriculum, teaching, and assessment practices in the doctor of pharmacy program. The office is staffed by a director and an assessment coordinator and works closely with the School’s registrar and the chairs of the Curriculum Committee and Assessment Committee. The Office is responsible for the following:

• Developing and publishing PharmD academic calendars, class schedules and exam schedules
• Communicating information about the curriculum to students and faculty (e.g., curriculum requirements, course descriptions and syllabi, academic policies)
• Implementing academic policies and procedures and monitoring compliance
• Administering and/or analyzing data from assessment activities, including student assessments (course grades/GPAs, OSCEs, progress exams, portfolios); course, instructor, and preceptor evaluations; curriculum mapping; stakeholder satisfaction surveys and focus groups

The office also provides resources and consultative support for faculty members and for the Curriculum and Assessment Committees in areas such as course and syllabus design, instructional practices and innovations, development of tests and other student assessments, peer evaluation of teaching, and the scholarship of teaching and learning.

For more information about the Office of Curriculum and Assessment, please contact Kim Deloatch (kim_deloatch@unc.edu or 919-962-0057).

The UNC/ECSU Doctor of Pharmacy Partnership Program was established by the North Carolina legislature with three goals in mind.

• To increase the number of pharmacy graduates from the University of North Carolina system
• To increase the number of pharmacists practicing in underserved areas of the state, particularly in northeastern North Carolina
• To develop a workforce of pharmacy practitioners and educators that reflects the ethnic and cultural diversity of the citizens of the state

These goals are being pursued through an interinstitutional collaboration between the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy and Elizabeth City State University. Students are admitted into a single accredited degree program through a single admission process with the participation of faculty representing both campuses. Upon completion of degree requirements, students receive a doctor of pharmacy from UNC-Chapel Hill with acknowledgement of the partnership with ECSU. 

For more information contact Carla White Harris, director of UNC-Chapel Hill/ECSU PharmD Partnership Program, at carla_whiteharris@unc.edu or 919-966-7571.

Faculty

Wendy Cox, PharmD, BCPS, Director of Student Services

Kimberly Deloatch, MEd, Director of Curriculum and Assessment, Clinical Associate Professor

Pamela Joyner, EdD, MS Pharm,  Associate Dean for Professional Education, Clinical Associate Professor

Carla White Harris, BS, RPh,  Director of Recruitment and Diversity Initiatives, Director of the UNC/ECSU PharmD Partnership Program, Clinical Assistant Professor