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Medical Schools Embrace Efforts Post-Affirmative Action Decision

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The ruling sent medical schools across the nation scrambling to adjust admission standards to abide by the new law of the land. These barriers [to entry] manifest early, prior to even applying to medical school,” says Faiz. Roughly half of the UC Davis School of Medicine’s class of 2026 represent minoritized populations.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. At that time, there were two predominantly Black medical schools in the U.S., AHMPS – founded in 1976 – now has 12 members.

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Veteran Healers

Insight Into Diversity

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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The Future is Bright for Indiana University's 15-Year-Old Graduate

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Two weeks later, he will walk across the stage to receive his high school diploma, adding one last credential to the collection he’s been building since he was 11 years old, when he took his first dual enrollment courses. The rule is you can’t go to college until you have a high school degree. He’s a pretty impressive kid.”

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International education – doing the right thing for students and the world

The PIE News

These young people, fully backed by their families who recognise the benefits an international education can offer, are following an impressive tradition. In my own time as a student, I read History at The University of Aberdeen. Nehru and Gandhi studied Law in London and Cambridge. The world’s universities are also changing.

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What Higher Education Can Learn from a Public Charity Hospital

Inside Higher Ed

Systemic and structural bias are often manifest in disparities in education, healthcare, housing, employment, and criminal justice. Strikingly, a Black woman with a college education is as likely to die or nearly die in childbirth as a white woman with an eighth-grade education. Even more striking are two striking facts.

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How Gross Inequalities in Institutional Wealth Distort the Higher Education Ecosystem and Shortchange the Vast Majority of Middle- and Lower-Income Undergraduates

Inside Higher Ed

The very question—posed by educational historian Bruce A. Iler, assistant director of the University of North Carolina’s School of the Arts—answers itself. The awful truth is that the wealthiest institutions are so flush with resources that they are deforming the entire system of higher education.