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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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2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award Winners

Insight Into Diversity

Diversifying Our Curing Community (DOCC) Arkansas State University College of Science and Mathematics DOCC seeks to increase the number of under-represented students accepted into medical schools. WIECS provides mentoring, professional development, leadership opportunities, academic support, and social activities.

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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. Engaging Middle Schoolers in Health Professions — Michigan Medicine University of Michigan Medical School.

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2023 Health Professions HEED Award Field Guide

Insight Into Diversity

The offices of diversity and inclusion and development have partnered to ensure cultural proficiency-themed research grants are available for faculty, students, and staff. The school adopted an antiracism curriculum that continues to integrate DEI topics through the fourth year of training.

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PEI Election Manifesto Review

HESA

It is not clear from the costing document – which aggregates the cost of promises at a relatively high level – whether either the scholarship scheme or support for larger enrolments in nursing are included. My guess is that they are not. The Greens platform is exhaustingly full of small-ball promises.

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Rising higher ed leaders tackle campus challenges in EAB’s fellowship

EAB

Cooper Medical School of Rowan University Fostering sense of belonging among Black undergraduate students Melissa McGuire, Ph.D.,

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity HEED Award Recipients

Insight Into Diversity

This academic and professional development initiative encourages and assists students from underrepresented groups to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math. . to offer scholarships to DACA students. For more than 30 years, these multicultural academic professionals from the Rochester, N.Y.,