College of Pharmacy receives Insight Into Academia 2025 Health Professions Higher Education Excellence and Distinction (HEED) Award

The University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy received the 2025 Health Professions Higher Education Excellence and Distinction (HEED) Award from Insight Into Academia magazine, the oldest and largest diversity-focused publication in higher education. As a recipient of the annual Health Professions HEED Award — a national honor recognizing U.S. health colleges and universities that demonstrate an outstanding commitment to academic excellence, belonging, and community-building across all levels of campus life — the College of Pharmacy will be featured, along with 27 other recipients, in the October 2025 issue of Insight Into Academia magazine. 

“The HEED Award affirms our commitment to C.A.R.E. (Community, Advocacy, Resilience, and Empowerment) by ensuring every student, faculty, and staff member can excel and truly belong on their journey toward excellence,” said Dr. L’Aurelle Johnson, associate dean for C.A.R.E. “When we center C.A.R.E., we move closer to a future where all voices are valued and all pathways to success are possible.”

“We take a detailed and somewhat holistic approach to reviewing each application in determining who will be named a Health Professions HEED Award recipient. Our standards are high, and we look for institutions where academic excellence and belonging are woven into the work being done every day across their campus”, says Lenore Pearlstein Co-publisher of Insight into Academia magazine,

See more information about the 2025 Health Professions HEED Award.

See information about the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy.

 Other recipients of the 2025 Health Professions HEED Award are:

A. T. Still University of Health Sciences
Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine
Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine
D'Youville University
Frontier Nursing University
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College
Hudson County Community College
Johns Hopkins School of Nursing
Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine
MGH Institute of Health Professions
New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing
Patricia A. Chin School of Nursing, CSU LA
School of Nursing, Rutgers, The State University of NJ
State University of New York College of Optometry
The Ohio State University College of Dentistry
The Ohio State University College of Medicine
The Ohio State University College of Nursing
The Ohio State University College of Optometry
The Ohio State University College of Public Health
The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine
The University of Illinois Chicago
UC Riverside School of Medicine
University of California, Davis School of Veterinary Medicine
University of Louisville
University of Maryland, Baltimore School of Nursing
University of Minnesota School of Nursing
Vanderbilt University School of Nursing 

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