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News and Announcements

Please note these announcements for the NTPD program. Also refer to the registration and orientation letters for more details.

• Mandatory use of UCD Email Addresses: The University of Colorado administration provides e-mail addresses to all students, which are used for all official communications and program mailings. The campus and University evaluation systems, registration and payment systems, and routine and emergency contact systems are not able to support use of personal email addresses.

  Many of you have already elected to use your UCD email address for all of your NTPD-related emails. Thank you! In the NTPD office, we have previously accommodated use of personal emails for your contact with our personnel and for your work in eCollege, but are no longer able to do so. The School of Pharmacy is under reaccreditation review through the next year. We are required to have one consistent, uniform, and reliable email address system for contacting participants in SOP programs. Because of these factors, it is now REQUIRED that you use your campus e-mail for all of your work in the NTPD program. The NTPD staff, the University Bursar’s and Registrar’s Offices and the assessment office, will use the UCD (changing soon to UCDenver.edu) e-mail addresses for official program correspondence. Please note that the UCD.EDU domain name is converting to UCDenver.edu to reflect the recent name change to the University of Colorado Denver (“UC Denver”). The domain change will be fully implemented by spring 2009; information on the conversion will be sent to your UCD.edu email address.

• New Pharmacotherapy Text for all ADSM Courses: Pharmacotherapy: A Pathophysiologic Approach, 7th edition, edited by DiPiro et al, was published in June 2008. This edition of the textbook is now required for all ADSM courses. Please DO NOT buy previous editions. This book can be purchased from the UCD bookstore or from many online book retailers.

• Paperless Billing: UCD is implementing an official E-Bill (electronic billing) program beginning with the fall 2008 semester. UC Denver will no longer mail paper billing statements to students; they will be emailed to your UCD email address. You can view your account statement by logging on to “Web Registration & Records” at: http://www.uchsc.edu/registrar/ and selecting “Finances” and “Extended Studies – Account Balance.”

• Groundbreaking for the New School of Pharmacy Building: The UCD Anschutz Medical Campus will complete the transition to its new home in Aurora, CO by the end of 2008. To meet the increasing health care needs of a changing and rapidly aging society, the School of Pharmacy is constructing a new $59.5 million, 165,000 square-foot building. The groundbreaking took place on June 10, 2008. The new building will be a sustainably-built, collaborative center of learning and is projected to be ready for occupancy in late 2010. The new facilities will allow the school to increase faculty size by 50 percent and class size by 25 percent, to 160 students a year. When the new facility is completed, the school will be renamed the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences in recognition of the Skaggs family and the ALSAM Foundation for their long-standing support of the school. In late 2006, the Foundation committed $10 million for the construction of the new building – the largest gift in the school's history. This was followed by a grant of $1 million in 2008. Sam Skaggs and the Skaggs family are nationally recognized as pioneers in the retail drug and grocery business and as generous philanthropists.

• ACPE Accreditation: The School of Pharmacy will undergo an accreditation visit by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) in fall 2009. In preliminary communications about accreditation, ACPE has emphasized that the curriculum and assessment methods of the entry-level and nontraditional doctor of pharmacy degree programs will have to be aligned as closely as possible. Therefore, some changes in NTPD policies and procedures will be made over the next year. The School of Pharmacy appreciates your cooperation and participation in order to make the accreditation process a success and thanks you in advance.