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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. Those students’ enrollments went way down, across the system. Dr. Jessica Faiz. Dr. David A.

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Program Encourages Regional Native American Students to Pursue Health Sciences

Insight Into Diversity

The University of Minnesota (UMN) Medical School Duluth Campus will increase access to biomedical science careers for Native American students in the region with the new Gateways to Medicine and Research Master of Science degree program.

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$100 million: The largest single donation in HBCU history goes to Spelman College

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It’s a donation that’s large enough to set a new chapter in Spelman’s mission to erase financial barriers and ensure student graduation for historically underrepresented college students, said Helene Gayle, president of Spelman, in a press release. In 2018, the couple donated $30 million.

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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. 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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Russia in campaign for Africans despite student frontline deaths

The PIE News

Russia is continuing to appeal to African students through social media-driven recruitment campaigns, despite the recent death of a Zambian student fighting in its ranks against Ukraine. It is well known that Russian medical schools are the best in the world.

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

The PIE News

Last month I had the pleasure of travelling to India to meet with Study Group staff, partners and to hear about the ambitions of students keen to access universities across the world. Today the mass flow of international students is one of the great phenomenon of the world and, I believe, a powerful force for good. Wars came and went.

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity Health Professions HEED Award Winners

Insight Into Diversity

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.