By Alabama Public Radio
Mobile, AL – The University of South Alabama will partner with Auburn University and offer a doctor of pharmacy program on the Mobile campus in 2007.
South Alabama President Gordon Moulton says the program will help address a shortage of pharmacists.
Auburn officials argued in December that the state did not need a competing program at South Alabama, saying there were not enough potential students to support it. And the Alabama Commission on Higher Education voted against allowing South Alabama to establish such a program.
But Auburn University President Ed Richardson spoke Thursday to the ACHE board, saying Auburn would cooperate with USA on the program.
Auburn is the only public college in the state with a full pharmacy program.
Samford University in Birmingham also has one.