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$100 million: The largest single donation in HBCU history goes to Spelman College

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Additionally, this donation rivals that of the $120 donated to Spelman, Morehouse, and the United Negro College Fund by the co-founder of Netflix donated in 2020. Stryker is a businesswoman and member of Harvard Medical School’s board of fellows, and Johnston is the head of a money management firm.

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Bringing Greater Impact

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

At the height of the pandemic in 2020, without ever visiting the campus, Dr. David A. In 2020, that plan became concrete, and the search was on to find a director who could do that. Canton, who is also an associate professor of history, hired two faculty members in year one. Photo courtesy of David Canton.

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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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Belmont plans to hire Jewish faculty for the first time

Inside Higher Ed

” The university plans to recruit Jewish faculty members to teach in the university’s law school, pharmacy school and new medical school, scheduled to open in 2024.

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Nurturing Digital Learning: Unveiling the HBCU Advantage

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February marks Black History Month , an observance that honors the rich histories and acknowledges the invaluable contributions of African Americans across various facets of society. A great example of such an approach is the Psychiatry Clerkship at Morehouse School of medicine.

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How Gross Inequalities in Institutional Wealth Distort the Higher Education Ecosystem and Shortchange the Vast Majority of Middle- and Lower-Income Undergraduates

Inside Higher Ed

Iler, assistant director of the University of North Carolina’s School of the Arts—answers itself. By way of contrast, consider the University of Pennsylvania’s 2020 pledge to contribute $100 million over 10 years to the Philadelphia School District to renovate decrepit schools.

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Why Worry?

Inside Higher Ed

Indeed, the figure has declined by 15 percent since 2020. ” Vedder recently retired from Miami University, which had approximately the same number of students as Stanford – but Stanford as 10 times as many employees, even excluding its medical school. Steven Mintz Show on Jobs site: Disable left side advertisement?: