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

University Business

” Three-quarters of the donation will go directly toward scholarships. It’s part of a consortium of other neighboring private African American colleges and universities, including Clark Atlanta University, Morehouse College, and Morehouse School of Medicine. In 2018, the couple donated $30 million.

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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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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., Sullivan, former Secretary of the U.S.

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity Health Professions HEED Award Winners

Insight Into Diversity

Still University of Graduate Health Studies. 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. Creating Pathways to Academic Medicine — A.T.

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Russia in campaign for Africans despite student frontline deaths

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It is promising studies in English and French, two languages widely used in African schools, with the option of also studying in Russian after a seven to 10 months of pre-university language course. 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

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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. The world’s universities are also changing. In my own time as a student, I read History at The University of Aberdeen. Wars came and went.