Pharmacy - About Us

About Us

About the University: Harding's mission is to transform learners for global impact by engaging minds and nurturing faith within a deeply connected community. Nearly 5,000 students from 50 states and more than 60 nations and territories come to our Searcy campus to transform their passions into professions that serve others. Discover your inspired purpose here.

About the College of Pharmacy: We strive to foster a culture of diversity as we enroll students from across the United States and many other countries. We’re looking to partner with students who want to continue their professional development in a Christian community with a strong commitment to ethics, accuracy and quality care. Our faculty are genuinely committed to equipping students with the knowledge, skills and abilities needed to make a difference in patients’ lives. In addition to academic preparation, we are looking for students who exemplify our core values of advancement, Christianity, collaboration, trustworthiness, innovation, outreach, nurture and service.

Our Mission

Harding University’s College of Pharmacy seeks to graduate pharmacists who accept the responsibility of improving the spiritual and physical wellness of the world by providing patient-centered care that ensures optimal medication therapy outcomes delivered through the highest standards of Christian service.

Goals

1. Cultivate a strong culture of human flourishing. We believe that our mission and vision are best achieved when our employees and students are thriving. Thus, a robust and sustained investment in creating a healthy organizational culture that intentionally invests in the personal, professional, and spiritual development of our employees and students is critical to toward this aim.
   
   
2. Equip students to effectively engage a pluralistic and secular society with a Chrisian worldview: We participate in Jesus’s Kingdom work of restoring the world to what God intended from the beginning. This has become significantly more challenging in a culture that increasingly embraces a non-Christian ethos. We must be laser sharp in our teaching and mentoring efforts to best prepare our students to counter today’s cultural trajectory with the relevance of Jesus Christ.
   
   
3. Enact high standards of excellence in preparing students for career accomplishment in a globally competitive marketplace: Students and their families invest in a Harding education for many good reasons. Chief among them, is the high expectation that they will be well-prepared for and connected to career opportunities upon graduation. It is critical that we fully leverage our campus resources (human and material), or broad alumni base, and other networks in equipping our students for lives of purpose and vocational success.
   
   
4. Implement innovative strategies that align academic offerings with current and future market demand: Societal expectations for higher education are ever-changing, and the higher education marketplace is more dynamically competitive than at any other time in history. We must think and plan innovatively to deliver mission-driven, market smart, and academically-sound programs.
   
   
5. Construct a financial model that supports increased affordability and institutional autonomy: College affordability and increasing doubt regarding return on investment is a real deterrent for many families today posing a tremendous risk to our future promise and stability. A comprehensive study of financial modeling options that lead to increased sustainability and religious freedom are paramount to our long-term success and mission fulfillment.
   
   
6. Build a globally recognized and distinctive University brand: Harding is uniquely positioned to draw missionally-aligned students from all corners of the world, preparing them for global impact. We must clearly define what makes us a distinctive university and employ new strategies to make them known to a broader audience.

The College of Pharmacy bases its educational program and position in the pharmacy community upon certain core values. The core values of the college are advancement, Christianity, collaboration, trustworthiness, innovation, outreach, nurturing and service. These values are symbolized by the acronym ACCTIONS.