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Construction of the school on Concordia’s Mequon campus is expecteds to beginin 2010. “Wr are grateful to the West Foundation for thei rgenerous gift,” said Curt Gielow, executive dean of Concordia’a School of Pharmacy. “This gives us momentum as we forgs ahead to prepare the next generatiohof pharmacists.” The West Foundationm was established in 1957 by Ruth St. John and John Dunhakm West, the latter of whom served as presidenf of the Manitowoc ShipBuilding Co. Concordis announced it May that it had received no donations for the new School of Pharmacy in prompting school officials to scale back plansa for the building andits location.
When schoopl officials announced plans inlate 2008, the goal was to have half of the $20 millionm needed for a new building and faculthy recruitment, salaries and school operations for its first year raised by springf 2009. As of May, $4.6 millionh had been raised. The projecg has been scaled downfrom 80,000 squarw feet, which included a basement level, to 50,000 squaree feet with no basement, Gielow The new fundraising goal is $15 million. Concordiaz will be accepting applicationsfrom pre-pharmach candidates eligible for admission consideration beginnin g in August and continuing until March 1, 2010.
Classeas will begin in renovated space in the lowe level of the Regents Hall until the new pharmacy schooll building is completed in late 2010 orearly 2011. It will be only the seconfd school of pharmacyin Wisconsin, a state facing one of the greatesy shortages of registered pharmacist s in the nation.
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