Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

A committee at Harvard Medical School (HMS) recently voted to integrate climate change into the curriculum for MD students. These topics will be embedded through a student’s medical education to help enhance the care they are able to provide to future patients who have been impacted by climate change.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

Xavier University of Louisiana, a historically Black university, and Ochsner Health, a health-care system in the state, announced plans to jointly establish a new medical school. The goal is to help diversify the medical workforce in Louisiana and nationwide. Hide by line?: Disable left side advertisement?:

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Retired clarinetist Edward Avedisian has donated $100 million to the Boston University medical school, the university announced Thursday. The school, which since 1873 has been called the Boston University School of Medicine, will now be known as the Aram V. Chobanian & Edward Avedisian School of Medicine.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

aid to foreign medical colleges. He said that some overseas medical schools are exempt from meeting the minimum standards to which other foreign medical schools are held: that at least 60 percent of their enrollment must be non-U.S. Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois has introduced a bill to limit U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

At Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM), disrupting and erasing health disparities is more than just part of their mission statement. 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

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2023

The UC Riverside (UCR) School of Medicine has accepted its first class of California Medicine Scholars. This spring, these community college students from inland Southern California will receive academic support as they pursue medical education. CMSP has four RHHOs.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Two historically Black universities, Harris-Stowe State University and Xavier University of Louisiana, recently announced the creation of new academic colleges on their campuses. The college will be led by Harvey R. Xavier and Ochsner will form a nonprofit corporation to launch the college and will create a new curriculum.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

MARCH 8, 2024

Albert Einstein College of Medicine, in New York, will offer free tuition following a $1 billion donation from its board chair — a gift the institution called the largest ever to an American medical school. The donor, Ruth Gottesman, is a former professor at the medical school and current member of the Montefiore board.

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Inside Higher Ed

JULY 24, 2023

McPherson College announced a $500 million gift Friday. The donor is anonymous. The donor has previously pledged $500 million. The combined $1 billion gift will be paid over time until the donor’s death, at which point the remaining funds will be paid.

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University Business

APRIL 12, 2023

Following harsh criticism from the nation’s top medical schools and the Department of Education, U.S. News and World Report is set to release its law and medical school: research rankings next week with an updated methodology and a reliance on public information from schools that now refuse to participate.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

A London medical school has signed a merger agreement with one of the capital’s leading universities, bidding to create a “world-class institution”. City St George’s, which combines City, University of London and St. George’s medical school, will begin operating from August 1, 2024, subject to necessary regulatory approvals.

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Insight Into Diversity

APRIL 18, 2023

Medical School and Veterans Affairs Partnerships Advance Research, Innovation Since the end of World War II, when an overwhelming number of veterans returned from deployment in need of care, the U.S. Nearly 70 percent of all physicians have trained with the VA in at least one of its 170 medical centers.

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University Business

JANUARY 8, 2024

News has been embroiled in another caustic dispute about the worthiness of college rankings — this time with dozens of law and medical schools vowing not to supply data to the publisher, saying that rankings sometimes unduly influence the priorities of universities. Read more from the New York Times. The post U.S.

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Insight Into Diversity

APRIL 18, 2023

The impact will prepare more [underrepresented] and first-generation students for admission to medical schools across the country while sharing learnings and perspectives in a deepened relationship with our nation’s HBCUs [historically Black colleges and universities].” Drew University of Medicine and Science.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

By Francie Diep Illustration by The Chronicle; iStock images After months of agitation from law and medical schools, the vast majority of colleges seem to have cooperated with U.S. News for its undergraduate-program rankings.

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University Business

JANUARY 19, 2024

This year marks 100 since Spelman Baptist Seminary became Spelman College, the all-women HBCU in the heart of Atlanta, Ga., Spelman College is just one of the several prestigious HBCUs in Atlanta. Who are Spelman College’s donors? which we know today. In 2018, the couple donated $30 million.

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Insight Into Diversity

APRIL 26, 2023

The University of Minnesota (UMN) Medical School will open a new campus focused on training homegrown health care professionals in St. as early as 2025, through a collaboration with medical provider CentraCare. Cloud, Minn., The expansion will address an anticipated shortage of health workers in the region.

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University Business

MARCH 1, 2023

The stream of graduate schools opting out of the U.S. News Best Colleges rankings may be growing to include entire universities, but what these schools will do to market themselves effectively remains unanswered. When Yale Law School opted out in November, a flood of other law schools, such as U.C. ” U.S. .

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University Business

MAY 9, 2023

Stillman College is joining a growing group of colleges and universities that are abandoning the U.S. News Best College rankings. News Best Colleges rankings does not accurately represent the impact that Stillman has on the community, the state or the nation. Read more from WVUA 23.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Columbia University’s Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons (VP&S) has established the VP&S Latino Association, a group that aims to foster development, presence, and belonging of the Latino community at the medical school.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Greenberg Sat, 12/16/2023 - 10:04 AM UVA expands free tuition; lawmakers demand clarity on FAFSA; inflation rises 4 percent for colleges; medical schools enroll a more diverse class. The Week in Admissions News Susan H. Byline(s) Susan H. Greenberg

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2023

Lucchinetti has been named senior vice president for medical affairs at the University of Texas at Austin and dean of the Dell Medical School. She will hold the Frank and Charmaine Denius Distinguished Dean’s Chair in Medical Leadership. from Rush Medical College in Chicago. and an M.D.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

More than 450 students at health professions schools around the world are measuring how effectively their institutions address climate change using the Planetary Health Report Card (PHRC). More than 80 institutions in seven countries participate in the project.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Gilliam holds degrees from Yale University, the University of Oxford, Harvard Medical School, and the University of Illinois Chicago School of Public Health. She is recognized as a fellow of both the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The current state of health equity and medical education were key topics at a webinar on Tuesday sponsored by Rutgers University’s Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, and Justice. The Proctor Institute – housed in the Rutgers-New Brunswick Graduate School of Education – hosted the event in honor of Black History Month.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Colorado College announced Monday that it is leaving the rankings produced each year by U.S. It continues to equate academic rigor with high school rank and standardized test scores, a metric that creates perverse incentives for schools to provide ‘merit’ aid at the expense of need-based aid. Here are a few examples.

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Inside Higher Ed

JUNE 11, 2023

Its move could encourage other colleges to do the same. The university’s law and medical schools earlier announced that they would not participate, but the undergraduate rankings get more attention. Three have acted this year. Columbia University is dropping out of the undergraduate rankings of U.S. News & World Report.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

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. Pathway and Mentoring Programs — Burnett School of Medicine at Texas Christian University.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

News & World Report released its latest college rankings yesterday, and colleges are touting their improvements, prevailing against the barrage of criticism it received at the turn of the year. In one month’s time, Rhode Island School of Design, Colorado College and Bard College (N.Y.) all dropped out.

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The PIE News

APRIL 10, 2024

The Advtech group, which owns over 10 different brands with schools and colleges in Southern and Eastern Africa regions, will offer qualifications including in nursing for local and international students, with a focus on feeding overseas markets for healthcare workers including the UK and Australia, according to officials.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 10, 2023

Bard College president Leon Botstein announced the change. “The educational character and comparative merits of colleges cannot be distilled into a uniform numerical ranking,” said Botstein. Another undergraduate institution has dropped out of the undergraduate rankings of U.S. News & World Report. Hide by line?:

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Meanwhile, medical schools often adopt the “Experiences-Attributes-Metrics” formula, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Student Select’s machine learning software can create a psychometric assessment of students based on their personal statements and college essays.

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University Business

JANUARY 6, 2023

Innovation is alive and well on campus as R&D on campus is seeing increased investment by college and university leaders. Twenty-four of those universities invested more than $1 billion and all but three reported R&D expenditures for their medical schools. Academic institutions spent $89.9 Ohio State University: $1.2

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 12, 2023

The low number of historically underrepresented men of color (HUMOC) in health care professions has been declared a national crisis by The Federation of Associations of Schools of the Health Professions (FASHP). dental school graduates, 48.4% medical school graduates, 10,268 were men, of which 1,251 were HUMOC. “A

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Image: It’s finals season at Moorpark College, a community college in Ventura County, Calif. The college also boasts successful performing arts, nursing and biotechnology programs. As of 2018, it had a six-year completion rate of 64 percent, which was the highest of any California community college.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 8, 2024

In fact, marginalized students in medical school report higher rates of implicit bias throughout their education, perpetuating the underrepresentation of diverse practitioners and emphasizing the need for enhanced DEI programs in medical education. Healthcare practitioners from diverse backgrounds face similar microaggressions.

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