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About APhA-ASP
The APhA
Academy of Student Pharmacists (APhA-ASP) unofficially began in 1921 when students from the
University of North Carolina petitioned the APhA Council to be recognized as an APhA
student branch. Since then, the student section of APhA
has gone through a steady evolutionary process. After the first student branch
was recognized, many other schools and colleges of pharmacy began to form their
own student branches.
In 1954, a formal student section was created due largely to the
efforts of the late Dr. Linwood F. Tice of the Philadelphia College
of Pharmacy, who felt that students needed a voice in the nation’s professional society of pharmacists. This allowed students the
opportunity to send one delegate to the APhA House of
Delegates. This progress continued until
1969, when the APhA membership approved new bylaws
which created three Association subdivisions, one of which was the Student
American Pharmaceutical Association (SAPhA). During
the next ten years, the number of student delegates in the APhA
House of Delegates increased from one to 15. That number increased to 28 in
1986 after passage of new APhA bylaws that created
the APhA
Academy of Students of
Pharmacy (APhA-ASP).
At the 2004 Annual Meeting in Seattle
, Washington , APhA-ASP
celebrated 35 years as an official academy
of APhA
. During the meeting, the 2004 APhA-ASP House of
Delegates voted in favor of a proposed resolution to change the Academy’s name of the American Pharmacists Association-Academy of Student
Pharmacists, in order to better define the
professional role of student pharmacists and to emphasize students’ commitment to the profession of pharmacy.
APhA-ASP Mission
Statement
The mission of the American
Pharmacists Association
Academy of Student
Pharmacists is to be the collective voice of student pharmacists, to provide
opportunities for professional growth, and to envision and actively promote the
future of pharmacy.
