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Medical Schools Embrace Efforts Post-Affirmative Action Decision

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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Program Encourages Regional Native American Students to Pursue Health Sciences

Insight Into Diversity

The University of Minnesota (UMN) Medical School Duluth Campus will increase access to biomedical science careers for Native American students in the region with the new Gateways to Medicine and Research Master of Science degree program. There needs to be more representation of Native Americans in clinics and in academic medicine.

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity Health Professions HEED Award Winners

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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. Engaging Middle Schoolers in Health Professions — Michigan Medicine University of Michigan Medical School.

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Russia in campaign for Africans despite student frontline deaths

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Russia is continuing to appeal to African students through social media-driven recruitment campaigns, despite the recent death of a Zambian student fighting in its ranks against Ukraine. It is well known that Russian medical schools are the best in the world.

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Higher ed must change or die (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Temple University is a public, R-1 research university in a major East Coast city with a medical school and health system. In 2017, while serving as dean of Columbia University’s School of Professional Studies, I noticed a startling trend. Our research portfolio has more than tripled in the last decade.

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2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award Winners

Insight Into Diversity

INSIGHT Into Diversity 2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award winners are recognized for their exemplary and innovative initiatives designed to recruit and retain underrepresented individuals in science, technology, engineering, and math. It serves to recruit local talent for the graduate school pipeline to help diversify the workforce.

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Fostering Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

These students are provided academic supports that include counseling, scholarships, and opportunities to participate in innovative science programs. “Dr. Their work involves sending students who previously attended those colleges, and now attend UCLA, to those schools to speak with students about transferring to a four-year institution.