DEI at public colleges, medical schools comes under congressional attack
Higher Ed Dive
MARCH 7, 2024
Republicans on the House's education committee took aim at diversity, equity and inclusion during a two-hour hearing Thursday.
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Medical School Enrollment Shows Mixed Trends as Diversity Numbers Decline
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 8, 2025
Medical schools across the United States are facing new challenges in maintaining student diversity, according to data released Thursday by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). We are encouraged by the increase in first-time applicants to medical school," said AAMC president and CEO Dr. David J.
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Bill Seeks Funding Ban for Medical Schools With DEI Programs
Inside Higher Ed
MARCH 22, 2024
A Republican congressman from North Carolina wants to prohibit federal funding, including student loans, for medical schools with diversity, equity and inclusion-related policies and requirements.
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Medical Schools Embrace Efforts Post-Affirmative Action Decision
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 4, 2023
The ruling sent medical schools across the nation scrambling to adjust admission standards to abide by the new law of the land. These barriers [to entry] manifest early, prior to even applying to medical school,” says Faiz. Roughly half of the UC Davis School of Medicine’s class of 2026 represent minoritized populations.
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The Equity Educator - Dr. Angelica Witcher Walker
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 8, 2025
After working as a nurse at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, Witcher Walker decided to continue her education by applying for a student affairs position at the medical school after her family life took a new course. So, the medical school had an opening, and I applied for the position and got accepted.
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Stanford’s REACH Initiative Advances Health Equity
Insight Into Diversity
APRIL 18, 2023
The REACH Initiative will help ensure that we continue building on our progress in a coordinated effort to diversify our academic community while enhancing academic opportunities in health equity research and clinical practice,” writes Terrance Mayes, EdD, associate dean for equity and strategic initiatives.
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A Scholarship of the Underserved to Inspire Equity
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
AUGUST 15, 2024
His work in the academy includes various stints in project management, student affairs, development, and fundraising roles at Harvard Medical School, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Tuskegee University, and the Thurgood Marshall College Fund.
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The 2024 Insight Into Diversity Inspiring Programs in STEM Award
Insight Into Diversity
AUGUST 20, 2024
Each year, instructors share their course materials for a lesson study aimed at improving student engagement and achievement through “equity strands” such as standards-based instruction, complex instruction, culturally relevant pedagogy, and teaching for social justice.
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PCOM Is On ‘FIRE’ for Equitable Education
Insight Into Diversity
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
Osteopathic Medicine (PCOM) has a long history of ensuring a more inclusive and equitable educational experience for students of all backgrounds. PCOM, a premier osteopathic medical school with three campuses, has implemented several initiatives aimed at promoting equity in student recruitment and community outreach.
Study: Black Medical Students Experience Higher Rates of Attrition Than Peers
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
AUGUST 1, 2023
A new study by Yale University finds that Black students are more likely to leave medical school than their white peers. student at Yale School of Medicine and lead author of the study, said when research and innovation are equitable, physicians are better equipped to care for diverse populations. Mytien Nguyen, an M.D.-Ph.D.
The Dark Legacy of Elite University Medical Centers
Higher Education Inquirer
MARCH 13, 2025
(Image: Mass General is Harvard University Medical School's teaching hospital.) For decades, Americas elite university medical centers have been the epitome of healthcare research and innovation, providing world-class treatment, education, and cutting-edge medical advancements.
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Dr. Barbara Jones Appointed Dean of the Boston University School of Social Work
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JUNE 15, 2023
She is also the inaugural chair of the Department of Health Social Work at UT Austin’s Dell Medical School. “I I will dedicate myself to further BUSSW’s impressive national and global leadership and innovation in social work education, research, and practice.”
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Navigating Microaggressions: A Call for DEI Education
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 8, 2024
Within professional environments, microaggressions persist as a pervasive and often overlooked force, representing one of the most significant challenges to equity and inclusion. Unfortunately, experiences like these are all too common in healthcare today. Microaggressions are often rooted in unconscious or implicit bias.
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Kinesiology and Health Promotion Program Embeds DEI Throughout Curriculum
Insight Into Diversity
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
A newly revamped curriculum embedded with diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) topics launched this fall in the Kinesiology and Health Promotion Program (KHP) at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona). Some earn their master’s degrees and others also go on to medical school. .
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DEI at public colleges, medical schools comes under congressional attack - Lilah Burke, Higher Ed Dive
Economics and Change in Higher Education
MARCH 20, 2024
Republicans on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce took aim at colleges’ diversity, equity and inclusion practices during a two-hour hearing Thursday. Republicans focused much of their attention on diversity in medical education, antisemitism, and the budgets and staffing of DEI offices at colleges.
Creating Diverse Pathways for the Next Generation of Doctors
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 2, 2024
George Pickens s Pickens's journey is also emblematic of the collaborative efforts between Tennessee State University and Meharry Medical College, which recognized the hurdles many students face and established systems to nurture and guide aspiring medical professionals.
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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity HEED Award Recipients
Insight Into Diversity
OCTOBER 18, 2022
In addition to this project, the college recently hosted its third annual Women’s Global Leadership Conference, entitled “Leading Inclusively: Transformative Change Across the Globe.”. Strategic Plans + Climate Survey = Inclusive Excellence — Ball State University. AmeriCorps Tutors for Youth — Arkansas State University.
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University of Kansas Establishes Center for African American Health
Insight Into Diversity
JUNE 21, 2023
The University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC) has launched the Center for African American Health, a new initiative that will focus on improving the health outcomes of Black, African American, and other marginalized communities. Jerrihlyn McGee, vice chancellor for diversity, equity, and inclusion at KUMC, said in the release.
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How the “next phase” of LGBTQ+ student support is stirring at this Ivy League
University Business
NOVEMBER 1, 2023
Efforts have ranged from providing LGBTQ+-inclusive housing to scholarships and sports teams. ” More from UB: Why your school needs to adopt curricula in computer and information sciences The growing need for LGBTQ+ healthcare The percentage of U.S. adults who self-identify as something other than heterosexual is 7.1%
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RISD Drops Out of ‘U.S. News’ Undergraduate Rankings
Inside Higher Ed
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
The Rhode Island School of Design announced Monday that it will no longer participate in U.S. Thus far, most of the colleges dropping out have been law and medical schools, although Reed College withdrew in 1995. News & World Report ’s undergraduate college rankings. I hope many more will follow.”
Columbia University Reaches Out to HBCUs for Fellowship Program
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
Ivy League universities, like Columbia, have a duty to really bolster their commitments to racial equity, justice, and equal opportunity partially because of their historical role and legacy in perpetuating and benefitting from inequities in higher ed, says Dr. Terrell Strayhorn, director of Virgina Union University’s Center for the Study of HBCUs.
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2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award Winners
Insight Into Diversity
AUGUST 21, 2023
Diversifying Our Curing Community (DOCC) Arkansas State University College of Science and Mathematics DOCC seeks to increase the number of under-represented students accepted into medical schools. It serves to recruit local talent for the graduate school pipeline to help diversify the workforce. Dreamline Pathways A.T.
Kansas Senate, House invite author who asserts critical race theory fosters discrimination -TIM CARPENTER, Kansas Reflector
Economics and Change in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
A controversial physician and author urged the Kansas Legislature to ban hospitals and medical schools from compelling students and employees to pledge allegiance to critical race theory, affirmative action and diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
UAMS’ Health Career University Reaches Out to Underrepresented Students
Insight Into Diversity
AUGUST 22, 2023
We invite Diversity Champions to share their success strategies and best practices as a way to inspire other colleges and universities to set a new standard for diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging within their own campus environments.
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More professors now embrace Wikipedia in the classroom
Inside Higher Ed
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
Besides, he decided, many patients rely on Wikipedia to research medical concerns, and doctors who ignore that reality are fooling themselves. He decided to design and teach an elective course at the medical school on Wikipedia editing.
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Fostering Success
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
SEPTEMBER 13, 2024
This program really helped me in terms of my career path,” says Tajrian, who is planning to apply to medical school, and says AAP was tremendously helpful in her understanding of what that entails. “I Alexander says one of the most pressing issues in higher education is diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).
The Pros and Cons of Standards-Based Grading
Today's Learner
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
It has been a determining factor in students’ admissions to colleges, law schools, medical schools, and even driver’s licenses. It can skew the results of the SBG in favor of those with equity advantages. After all, the goal of standard-based grading is equity. Written by Nick K.
The Pros and Cons of Standards-Based Grading
Today's Learner
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
It has been a determining factor in students’ admissions to colleges, law schools, medical schools, and even driver’s licenses. It can skew the results of the SBG in favor of those with equity advantages. After all, the goal of standard-based grading is equity. Written by Nick K.
Bringing Greater Impact
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 25, 2022
He joined the faculty of Connecticut College in 2003, and was an associate professor of history, director of the African American studies program as well as interim dean of institutional equity and inclusion, chair of the history department and director of the Center of the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity.
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Could the medical classroom do with a healthy dose of politics?
LSE Higher Education Blog
MARCH 9, 2023
These include opening traditional education systems to review and criticism, increasing the attention paid to the hidden curriculum, formal recognition of critical thinking as an essential dimension in the medical educational process, and increasing participatory learning throughout medical school.
Universities 4.0 and their role in driving place-based innovation for socio-economic transformation
HEPI
OCTOBER 28, 2024
More broadly, place-based innovation is a major driver of inclusive growth and socio-economic transformation, including the regeneration of post-industrial cities. One way these strategies are being implemented is through innovation precincts or districts.
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2023 Health Professions HEED Award Field Guide
Insight Into Diversity
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
INSIGHT Into Diversity presents the 2023 Health Professions Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award Field Guide with examples of strategies and best practices used by Health Professions HEED Award-winning schools to foster an inclusive campus culture that promotes belonging and equal success opportunities.
Cultural Competency & Anti-Bias Programs Address Health Disparities
Insight Into Diversity
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
At the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, content that is fundamental to the practice is integrated throughout the undergraduate medical school experience with components known as curricular threads. Students identify approaches that best identify and mitigate individual and system-level biases.
Will Anti-DEI Legislation Cause a Research Funding Drought in Higher Ed?
Insight Into Diversity
AUGUST 21, 2023
As recent anti-DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) laws targeting higher education take effect, research faculty and those who support their work in affected states — most notably Florida and Texas — are concerned about future funding and opportunities to collaborate with peer institutions on key projects.
This Pride Month, let’s celebrate and continue the fight for equality
UW Presidential Blog
JUNE 23, 2022
UW Medicine – LGBTQ Health Pathway – Medical school education on culturally responsive care for the LGBTQ population. I am proud to be a part of our UW community, which is so dedicated to fostering inclusion, acceptance and a welcoming environment for LGBTQIA+ students, staff and faculty. Title IX Office – LGBTQ resources.
Rising higher ed leaders tackle campus challenges in EAB’s fellowship
EAB
AUGUST 9, 2023
Many tackled improving student success, retention, and equity at their institutions, while others focused on budget models and streamlining administrative processes. Cooper Medical School of Rowan University Fostering sense of belonging among Black undergraduate students Melissa McGuire, Ph.D.,
Nearly 80% of admissions officers were against the fall of affirmative action. How have they coped?
University Business
OCTOBER 23, 2023
Davis into one of the country’s most diverse medical schools despite the state’s affirmative action ban in 1996, The New York Times reports. The scale has helped turn U.C.
Here are 2 ways colleges are grounding their holistic admissions process
University Business
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
Meanwhile, medical schools often adopt the “Experiences-Attributes-Metrics” formula, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. More than 90% of institutions claim to review student applications holistically, but the exact formula is hard to nail down from one institution to another.
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Leading Academic Group Joins Legal Challenge Against Executive Orders on DEI Programs
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
The lawsuit specifically challenges the orders' lack of clear definitions for terms such as "DEI," "equity," and "illegal DEIA," arguing that this vagueness makes compliance virtually impossible for institutions while potentially exposing them to significant federal enforcement actions.
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How Racial and Ethnic Identity Influence Your College Journey
EAB
JULY 11, 2023
That's the responsibility of medical schools, right? Whose responsibility is it? I would argue it's everyone's responsibility. We have to do it all across the board, right? We need more Black women doctors. We need more Black women CEOs. That's a responsibility of corporate hiring practices.
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HBCUs Announce Creation of New Colleges
Insight Into Diversity
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
PhD, who most recently served as associate dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion at Washington University in St. Xavier is the fifth historically black college or university to launch a medical school. The college will be led by Harvey R. Fields, Jr.,
Why Worry?
Inside Higher Ed
APRIL 5, 2023
Mental Health In an essay entitled “Fear, Rage, and Anguish on America's Happiest Campus,” the novelist Mary Gaitskill observes that for all the talk about safe spaces, trigger warnings, inclusion, and belonging, a noticeable number of students exhibit severe signs of depression, despair, and rage.
2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity Health Professions HEED Award Winners
Insight Into Diversity
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
The Office for Diversity & Inclusion at A.T. Still University of Graduate Health Studies (ATSU) is a founding partner of the Academic Medicine Consortium of Arizona, a group of medical schools that collaborate to identify and nurture students toward academic medicine. Creating Pathways to Academic Medicine — A.T.
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SCOTUS, Affirmative Action, and the Future of University Diversity: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 174 with Host Drumm McNaughton and Guests Thomas Parham and Dilcie Perez
The Change Leader, Inc.
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
University Diversity and the Drive for Inclusive Campuses of Tomorrow In the wake of SCOTUS’ ruling against Affirmative Action in college recruitment, higher education institutions are struggling to identify alternative ways to diversify their student bodies. He has a desire to go to medical school.
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