About LipscombFowler promoted to Full Professor in the department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Dr. Mike Fowler was promoted from Associate Professor to Full Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences. His promotion was recently approved in the April meeting of the Board of Trustees. This represents another milestone in our development as Mike is the first College of Pharmacy faculty member to be promoted since the program was established in January 2007. This only seems fitting since he officially delivered the first lecture to the inaugural class on Wednesday, August 13, 2008.
Mike has provided significant service and leadership activity to the community, department, college, and profession as a faculty member over the past two and half years. He has served as the department Vice Chair during this time frame and been critical in delivering required course work, coordinating course development, mentoring junior faculty in the classroom, assisting with faculty and staff annual evaluations, and developing departmental policies and procedures. Mike is the chair of the College’s Curriculum Committee and Scholarship Committee and serves as an active member on the College’s Admissions Committee, Academic Progression Committee, and Educational Assessment Committee. Just as important is his service to the community and humanity with his servant’s heart that is an outward expression of his commitment to and love for Christ. This commitment was exemplified when he received Lipscomb University’s first Spirit Award for living out a Christian spirit when he donated one of his kidneys to a friend and former colleague at Oklahoma Christian University.
Mike has been critical to accomplishing the department’s educational goals within the professional program. His academic experience allows him to reflect upon what and how certain topics and content can be readily modified or organized to achieve appropriate integration with related content in other courses within the curriculum. Despite his administrative responsibilities and heavy teaching load during the first two years of a developing program, he has made deliberate efforts to transform his teaching efforts in the classroom or laboratory into educational scholarship opportunities and utilize his analytical expertise to bridge collaborations with younger faculty members to support the department’s efforts to engage in basic science research as a critical form of scholarship.