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About That N.Y.U. Organic Chem Course

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adjunct professor of organic chemistry, who was not retained by N.Y.U. 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. Students didn’t even request that Dr. Jones be dismissed, and yet he was let go anyway.

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Morehouse School of Medicine Looks to Disrupt Health Inequities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Valerie Montgomery Rice and other experts are excited about the $2 million donation from the Croel Family Foundation for the development of the David Satcher Global Health Equity Institute at the school. “As As a medical school, our first priority is to train physicians, researchers, and other healthcare professionals.

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Rutgers Webinar Discusses Health Equity, Minority Health, and Medical Education

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The inspiration to form AMHPS came to Sullivan at a National Medical Association meeting when he was developing the medical school at Morehouse College in 1975. At that time, there were two predominantly Black medical schools in the U.S., Would we be diluting their funding by coming into being?

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FIRE asks NYU to reinstate chemistry professor whose firing caused furor and to ensure that adjuncts like him have academic freedom

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FIRE wrote New York University this week with grave concerns about the school’s headline – making dismissal of accomplished organic chemistry professor Maitland Jones Jr. “??We How hard should organic chemistry be? Experts say: Hard. In total, 82 of his 350 students signed the petition against him.

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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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Belmont plans to hire Jewish faculty for the first time

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Campus administrators and some members of the local Jewish community celebrated the shift as a step toward greater interreligious inclusion, aligned with recent Jewish-Christian interfaith efforts at Belmont. The Board of Trustees and Faculty Senate also plan to consider a similar decision at the undergraduate level later this year.

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Why Worry?

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” Although the AAUP is highly concerned about post-tenure review programs that could lead to faculty members’ termination, it is even more concerned about the replacement of tenured with contingent positions, said the organization’s senior researcher. Staffing Does Stanford have more administrators than undergrads?