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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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Rutgers Plan to Merge Medical Schools Met with Pushback

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Rutgers University's plan to merge New Jersey’s two largest public medical schools, New Jersey Medical School and Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, has proven controversial, NorthJersey.com reported.

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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. He scored a 511 out of a possible 528 on the exam required for medical school admission, known as the MCAT. The lawsuit comes as the U.S.

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Report: VCU Medical School Depended on Slavery

Inside Higher Ed

The medical school at Virginia Commonwealth University depended on and profited from slavery, according to a report commissioned by the university, The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported. The medical college was “intimately connected” to the institution of slavery in the mid-1800s, according to the report.

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University of Minnesota Medical School swears off compelled speech in white coat ceremony 

FIRE

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.

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HBCUs Announce Creation of New Colleges

Insight Into Diversity

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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More Quit ‘U.S. News’ Rankings of Medical, Law Schools

Inside Higher Ed

The medical schools of Cornell University and the University of Chicago are the latest to join the movement. Harvard University kicked off the effort this month, and it was quickly joined by the medical schools of Columbia and Stanford Universities and the University of Pennsylvania and the Icahn medical school of Mount Sinai.