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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. Drew University of Medicine and Science (CDU) in Los Angeles, opened in early July with 60 students. Dr. John W.

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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. 21 vote of lost confidence in Rutgers President Dr. Jonathan Holloway by the University Senate.

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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. The man, George Stewart, graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a 3.96 The medical schools did not comment.

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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. . FIRE commends UMMS for taking its students’ First Amendment rights seriously.

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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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HBCUs Announce Creation of New Colleges

Insight Into Diversity

Two historically Black universities, Harris-Stowe State University and Xavier University of Louisiana, recently announced the creation of new academic colleges on their campuses. PhD, who most recently served as associate dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion at Washington University in St. Fields, Jr.,

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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. ” At the University of Chicago, the leaders of the medical school announced the change in a memo to students and faculty members, The Chicago Tribune reported. Hide by line?: