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Morehouse School of Medicine Looks to Disrupt Health Inequities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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 As a medical school, our first priority is to train physicians, researchers, and other healthcare professionals.

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Howard University Takes Affirmative Step, All HBCUs Need More Support

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

And despite chronic and discriminatory under-funding, HBCUs have stood as the greatest driver of social and economic mobility of Black Americans in the country. HBCUs receive less than 1% of federal research funding and development grants, and less than their share of state and federal funding overall.

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Success Coaching and Online Platform Shown to Improve Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The software also uses predictive analytics in an attempt to address issues before they develop. The combination of student data and coaching could raise privacy concerns, however. Features that are designed for ease of information sharing could become problematic when financial or medical data comes into the picture.

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A student partnership project to enhance curriculum development in medical education

Teaching Matters Online Learning

We were keen to work with students as pedagogical co-creators – developing the learning strategy and resources – and hoped that this kind of partnership would enhance the process and the outcomes of the curriculum design by introducing new and potentially different perspectives and experiences.

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How the “next phase” of LGBTQ+ student support is stirring at this Ivy League

University Business

. “This is the next phase of how to address what we might call a social conversation, a social problem, a current issue that needs all hands on deck,” says Jessica Halem, former LGBTQ+ director at Harvard Medical School and current senior director of Eidos. adults who self-identify as something other than heterosexual is 7.1%

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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

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The consequence: the richest institutions can fully fund the education of lower-income students, while the vast majority of working-class and lower-middle-class undergraduates must take out loans to pay for their education. Swensen, taking advantage of alternate assets, including hedge funds, private equity and natural resources.

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Welcome to the Sept-Oct Hot Topic: Student Partnership Agreement 2022

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

Image credit: Isla Petrie, Medical Student Welcome to the September-October Hot Topic: Student Partnership Agreement 2022. One way in which the University supports putting the tenets of this Agreement into practice is through Student Partnership Agreement Funding. Student-led APEX6 high-altitude expedition to the Bolivian Andes.