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Article: Many pharmacy schools facing budgetary woes
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- August 19, 2002
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CopyrightCopyright Medical Economics Inc. Aug 19, 2002. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Wall Street's meltdown and rapidly dwindling state government coffers are forcing many pharmacy schools to face the prospect of tightening their fiscal belts even more.
Financial hard times was Topic A at the recent annual meeting of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, said executive v.p. Lucinda Maine. "It's an increasingly important priority," she said. "I think their issues may be different, but both private and public schools of pharmacy are feeling it. We have to do the best we can under some pretty awful circumstances."
Many state universities and colleges are being hit hard by past fiscal follies from the halcyon days when legislatures handed out ...