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Houston is the future; higher ed is stuck in past (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

In 2015, the size of the incoming class of Yale College freshmen stood at 1,360 students, an increase of just 14 students. Over the same period, the number of applications to Yale College increased by over 300 percent, from 9,331 students in 1979 to 30,932 in 2015.” All worthy goals and leagues better than top U.S.

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity Health Professions HEED Award Winners

Insight Into Diversity

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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2023 Health Professions HEED Award Field Guide

Insight Into Diversity

The Visiting Student Health Equity Program at the Medical College of Wisconsin in the Office of Diversity & Inclusion is an award open to current fourth-year medical school students who are from or have lived experiences engaging with people in underserved communities.

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The high cost of funded research in colleges and universities

Changing Higher Education

Funding for research in higher education comes from many sources as described in the NSF Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) Survey for 2015: Higher Education R&D Expenditures by source (in Millions of current dollars ). . These data include medical schools, which contribute about $23B to the Total Research column in 2014.

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2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award Winners

Insight Into Diversity

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. Overall enrollment rose 60 percent from 2015 to 2022, and women student enrollment increased from 15 to 20 percent.

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity HEED Award Recipients

Insight Into Diversity

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. . Dedication: Memorial to the Enslaved — William & Mary.