Welcome to the inaugural post of the Knowledge Dispensary, a weekly blog about The Ohio State University College of Pharmacy strategic plan. This blog has been developed with the guidance of our Communications Director, Laura Wise-Blau. The purpose is to be sure we keep all members of our College informed and involved with the finalization and implementation of the strategic plan.
For those of you who are not intimately familiar with blogging (including me), don’t worry that this will be overly complicated. A blog is simply an electronic journal. I intend to use this blog to walk each of you through our strategic plan, its strategies and goals, our progress, and as we move forward, our implementation plans. Technology continues to ramp up its influence on our daily lives, including how we teach, conduct research and communicate. Distance learning is now commonplace, with its many opportunities as well as challenges. This blog is just another example of accepting that change in the College.
What hasn’t changed is our commitment to providing the highest level of research and teaching, attracting top faculty and staff, and enrolling students with the highest potential.
Through our strategic plan, we are answering the following:
•Who are we?
•Where do we want to go?
•How can we get there?
•How will we measure our success?
Associate Dean Katherine Kelley, Erin Delffs and Joanne Pearsol serve as our strategic plan leaders. To date, they have organized the structure of our plan. They have gathered data through internal and external SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) analyses. They are also preparing a draft plan, which we will share late next month. This plan will serve as a foundation for more detailed action plans to be developed by our units.
I hope this blog will provide each of you with insight into our aspirations for this college. We have much to be proud of, and I look forward to working with you to move us even further ahead.
Until next week,
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HENRY J. MANN,
PharmD, FCCP, FCCM, FASHP
Dean and Professor
College of Pharmacy
The Ohio State University