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HBCU Medical Schools Growing in Number

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For the first time in nearly 50 years, the number of Black medical schools in the country is growing. The fourth and newest, an independent four-year medical program at the Charles R. CDU joins Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee, the Howard University College of Medicine in Washington, D.C.,

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Man Claims 6 Medical Schools Illegally Considered Race, Gender

Inside Higher Ed

A white man filed a suit against six Texas medical schools Tuesday, charging them with illegally considering issues of race and gender when rejecting him, The Texas Tribune reported. grade point average and a biology degree. grade point average and a biology degree. The medical schools did not comment.

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HBCUs Announce Creation of New Colleges

Insight Into Diversity

STEM is currently the fastest-growing degree at the university, according to the release. Students who enroll will have access to facilities, personnel, and administrative processes at both institutions, a university news release reports. Xavier is the fifth historically black college or university to launch a medical school.

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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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About That N.Y.U. Organic Chem Course

Inside Higher Ed

Organic chemistry is a necessary pre-requisite for medical school, and often serves as a high-stakes, weed-out course for students walking that path. Administrators see students as units of revenue, rather than the people for whom they are responsible to provide the best possible atmosphere for learning.

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The U.S. News exodus never happened. How did the top ranking service outlast naysayers?

University Business

Yale Law School’s decision to stop participating with the seminal college ranking service in November prompted a wave of other prestigious graduate programs to follow through; at least a dozen medical schools and 40+ law schools quit participating. News a “false altar” to which the public worships.

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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 the goodness of transparency, please know that I hope that every university and college president and administrator, across the country, sees this op-ed as my version of a burning platform memo.

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