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AUPHA  is pleased to announce the 2013 David A. Winston Policy Scholars, selected on May 14, 2013.

The objective of the Scholarship Program, funded by the David A. Winston Health Policy Fellowship, is to increase the number and quality of individuals trained in healthcare policy at the state and federal level by awarding deserving health policy students financial support to further their education. The Fellowship commemorates the contributions and personal qualities of David A. Winston who, for 20 years, played a significant role in shaping the role of health policy in America. [more]

Earlier this year the AUPHA Board conducted six separate focus groups with AUPHA member program directors. On each call at least two AUPHA Board members had the opportunity to hear directly from members about how we are doing and what you’d like us to do in the future. [more]

A few weeks ago I was surprised to be awarded the 2013 Faculty Member of the Year Award for the School of Health Sciences at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey where I am the Assistant Dean and adjunct faculty member.  I would never have guessed that this honor, bestowed upon me by the Student Senate, was an option for me. I am instructor whose students groan when I assign course work or group projects.  I am the instructor who nags about professionalism, submitting the best work possible and effectively addressing problems without being rude to faculty and staff.  I am the one who lectures about subject matter and non-subject matter related to managing life.  I hold my students to a standard that seems to be disappearing in our classrooms and I always demand their best.  I remind them that I expect things of them at the college level that may not have been expected in high school.  I require them to carefully review their work prior to submission!  (I ask them why I would want to review it if they didn’t even review it!) I pound critical and analytical thinking into their brains and tell them that their opinions are their own, but require them to have been developed from factual information. I truly want them to be empowered and educated about their beliefs in a time when information is not reported or documented factually.  [more]

California, here we come!  This year’s Annual Meeting in Monterey promises to be fantastic!  If you have not yet registered-- and booked your hotel—please do so soon! 

I always look forward to the AUPHA Annual Meeting, knowing that I will laugh with friends, meet health administration faculty who are doing the most innovative and cool things in their courses, and hear from inspiring nationally-known speakers.  I return to Columbus feeling renewed and grateful that I am in this field and eager to put what I learned into practice.  There is simply no other professional meeting that brings such immediate value to me as a faculty!  I hope you feel the same. [more]

Dorothy P. Rice, Sc.D., has been named the 2013 recipient of the William B. Graham Prize for Health Services Research.  The Prize, funded by The Baxter International Foundation and managed by the Association of University Programs in Health Administration (AUPHA), will be awarded on June 20, 2013 during the AUPHA Annual Meeting in Monterey, Calif. [more]

AUPHA is placing the power to better lead your program and your career in your hands with the Benchmarking for Education in Healthcare Management (BEHM) platform.  This multi-dimensional platform provides you, AUPHA member program faculty, the opportunity to enter program and compensation data and then compare your data with that of other AUPHA members.  [more]