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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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.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
AUGUST 5, 2024
Bloomberg has committed $600 million to the endowments of four historically Black medical schools. Howard University College of Medicine, Meharry Medical School of Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine, Charles Drew University of Medicine & Science will benefit from the gift by the Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Greenwood Initiative.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
FIRE
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Less than a week after FIRE raised concerns about compelled speech at the University of Minnesota Medical School, the university assured us no student would face repercussions for refusing to say a political oath at its white coat ceremony. . This is a welcome result at a public medical school bound by the First Amendment.
Inside Higher Ed
JANUARY 18, 2023
Xavier University of Louisiana, a historically Black university, and Ochsner Health, a health-care system in the state, announced plans to jointly establish a new medical school. The goal is to help diversify the medical workforce in Louisiana and nationwide. Hide by line?: Disable left side advertisement?
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.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
The current state of health equity and medical education were key topics at a webinar on Tuesday sponsored by Rutgers University’s Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, and Justice. At that time, there were two predominantly Black medical schools in the U.S., Sullivan, former Secretary of the U.S.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
At Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM), disrupting and erasing health disparities is more than just part of their mission statement. Health equity is something MSM leaders, faculty members, and students work toward every day. As a medical school, our first priority is to train physicians, researchers, and other healthcare professionals.
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.
Insight Into Diversity
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
PCOM, a premier osteopathic medical school with three campuses, has implemented several initiatives aimed at promoting equity in student recruitment and community outreach. Additionally, the program helps students establish connections with faculty and fellow classmates, easing the transition into the rigors of medical school.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024
Juan McGruder A $20 million gift to Meharry Medical College is expected to enhance the college's mission to serve underserved populations and cultivate the next generation of health care providers and researchers. The gift by an anonymous donor will be used on programmatic and scholarship support at the historically Black medical school.
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.
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.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JUNE 20, 2024
I’m specifically looking at it though from a racialized equity labor lens, stating that Black and Brown students are exerting energy based on race, based on the negligence of the university,” she says. She’s investigating what this kind of work looks like and what it costs, both in time and money. After she receives her Ph.D.,
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.”
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.
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.
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. .
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.
University Business
NOVEMBER 1, 2023
. “This is the next phase of how to address what we might call a social conversation, a social problem, a current issue that needs all hands on deck,” says Jessica Halem, former LGBTQ+ director at Harvard Medical School and current senior director of Eidos. as of 2022, double the rate it was a decade prior.
Insight Into Diversity
APRIL 17, 2023
The Community Equity Alliance, a new initiative to eliminate barriers to equitable health care for underserved communities, was announced in January 2023 by CVS Health. Three schools — Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Sinai Chicago, and Wayne State University in Detroit — are part of the initiative.
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.
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.”
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.
Insight Into Diversity
OCTOBER 18, 2022
This year, it launched a new center and program to address the acute need for culturally diverse and responsive health professionals: the Health Professions Center and its signature program, the Martin Delany-Pan African Studies Pathway to Medical School Program. . Equity Advisers for Hiring, Promotion — Northwestern University.
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.
The PIE News
JULY 10, 2024
The funds raised are listed at around 28,75,000 debentures – both non-convertible debentures, meaning they can’t be made into equity or stocks, and optionally convertible – which equates to around $35 million. Only just under a year ago, upGrad was also recruiting for a new medical school in Va n uatu.
Higher Education Inquirer
JUNE 24, 2024
UMCs (also known as academic medical centers or AMCs) are feeling the strain of a number of issues: a growing elderly population , drug overdoses, mental health problems, gunshot wounds, victims of car crashes, and numerous medical problems related to poverty.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Inside Higher Ed
MARCH 20, 2023
But faced with rising expenses after the war, the institutions with the largest endowments increasingly invested in stocks and equities. Swensen, taking advantage of alternate assets, including hedge funds, private equity and natural resources. Elite campuses have made “equity” their watchword.
Insight Into Diversity
AUGUST 22, 2023
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences is a 2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity Diversity Champion, one of a select group of higher education institutions that rank in the top tier of our Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award recipients.
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.
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).
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.
Insight Into Diversity
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
The Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine introduced a pioneering program named JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion), influencing osteopathic schools nationwide. The school adopted an antiracism curriculum that continues to integrate DEI topics through the fourth year of training.
HEPI
OCTOBER 28, 2024
ASU, which has no medical school, has grown into one of the largest public research universities through world-class partnerships with the healthcare and semiconductor sectors and industries. It is building on its 20 years of reimagining learning in partnership with 140 EdTech companies at EdPlus.
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