Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2023

Georgetown University and Howard University have been awarded a $3 million grant to help fund the establishment of a center for medical humanities. year grant from the Mellon Foundation will go towards the Georgetown-Howard Center for Medical Humanities and Health Justice, which aims to reduce health disparities in D.C.

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AUGUST 1, 2023

A new study by Yale University finds that Black students are more likely to leave medical school than their white peers. student at Yale School of Medicine and lead author of the study, said when research and innovation are equitable, physicians are better equipped to care for diverse populations. Mytien Nguyen, an M.D.-Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

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., Would we be diluting their funding by coming into being?

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APRIL 20, 2023

Federal support, funding opportunities, and advice were the topics of discussion at a Virginia Union University (VUU) webinar about STEM research at Historically Black colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Moore listed numerous NSF scholarships and programs beneficial to HBCU research in fields including STEM, data science, and computing.

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OCTOBER 9, 2024

Back in September, Western Michigan University—a public research institution located in the southwestern corner of the state—released its fall 2024 enrollment and retention numbers, much to the delight of the school’s provost, Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig. The school’s president, Dr. Edward B.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2023

The University of Louisville (UofL) has launched a fundraising campaign to match a $10 million state investment, which will go towards adding endowed faculty positions and advancing university research. Their work creates new products, companies, a trained workforce and jobs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2025

The research, which gathered responses from 740 students at two- and four-year institutions, found that 53% of current college students have contemplated taking a temporary break from their studies, while 17% have considered abandoning their education altogether.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2023

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) and Vanderbilt University (VU) are launching a $17-million diversity, equity, inclusion, (DEI) and belonging program for the biomedical research community. Racial diversity among research faculty on the national scale is low, with 4% Black, 4% Latinx, 0.2% American Indian, and 0.1%

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Higher Education Inquirer

MARCH 13, 2025

(Image: Mass General is Harvard University Medical School's teaching hospital.) For decades, Americas elite university medical centers have been the epitome of healthcare research and innovation, providing world-class treatment, education, and cutting-edge medical advancements.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 8, 2025

After working as a nurse at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, Witcher Walker decided to continue her education by applying for a student affairs position at the medical school after her family life took a new course. So, the medical school had an opening, and I applied for the position and got accepted.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 8, 2024

Picture this: you are in a hospital setting and you witness another staff member ask a Black medical student if they need help cleaning up. The staff member assumes the medical student is the janitor. Unfortunately, experiences like these are all too common in healthcare today.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2023

As a medical school, our first priority is to train physicians, researchers, and other healthcare professionals. However, as an historically Black medical school (HBMS), we have a larger mission,” says Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice, president and CEO of MSM. He also served as U.S. The new institute has an ambitious mission.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Dunn chose to attend Xavier as an undergraduate with hopes of becoming a medical doctor. But all along the way, Williams has worked at both public and private institutions—HBCUs and Predominantly White Institutions—that have become top producers of minoritized students. From there, Williams’s career took off. You don’t see women?

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Second-year medical students who historically took Step 1 of the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) had long viewed the exam results as the deciding factor for which institution they’d match to pursue residency and fellowship training. The first of three exams, it was infamously cutthroat.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 30, 2024

Littles, who has served as interim dean since February 2023, served as a senior associate dean for medical education and academic affairs for nearly 20 years. Littles earned her medical degree from University of Florida College of Medicine and completed the Tallahassee Memorial Family Practice Residency Program. “Dr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2024

Philley returned to East Texas in 2012 as an assistant professor of medicine at UT Health Tyler, where she continued research efforts in nontuberculous mycobacterial disease and bronchiectasis. She played an instrumental role in launching the UT Tyler School of Medicine, the UT System’s seventh medical school.

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JUNE 20, 2024

The research she’s been doing at Morgan State has to do with her time at her alma mater, where she had gone the extra mile to make the school more welcoming for her and other Black and Brown students. candidate’s research topic was “at the cutting edge of how we think about college students doing community-building work.” “We

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Evidence about the pernicious influence of racism on medical care continues to grow. Using standard medical models, your doctor might assess your risk of osteoporosis differently depending on whether you’re white or Black, or give you a different dose of radiation for an x-ray. Their contentions have gained steam in recent years.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 4, 2023

With past experience as a pediatrician and gynecologist, she also served as chief of family planning and contraceptive research and leader of the school’s program in gynecology for children, adolescents, and young adults. That’s a bigger concern, that there’s any trailblazing aspect to what I do. And it just isn’t.” Gilliam holds a B.A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

Justin Karr, assistant professor in the Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky (UK), describes him as committed, energetic, and driven when working on research projects. He wants to research methods to improve the evaluation of a student-athlete experiencing concussion,” says Karr. Here are the roles we need you to do.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 1, 2024

I’m proud to see the university continuing to make a positive impact on the lives of countless Californians through research, teaching, and public service.” Drake — who holds a bachelor’s degree in African and African American Studies from Stanford University and a bachelor’s degree in medical sciences and M.D. Dr. Michael V.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 23, 2023

She is also the founding chairperson of the department of surgery and the first associate dean for post-graduate medical education at the Aga Khan University in Karachi. CBEC, inaugurated in 2004, is the only bioethics center specific in its focus on bioethics research and education in Pakistan, according to Moazam. In the U.S.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Dr. Fernando Delgado CUNY is opening a $95 million Nursing Education, Research and Practice Center that will include 22 robotic patient simulators that can be programmed to replicate hundreds of medical conditions, including breathing difficulty and childbirth.

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DECEMBER 6, 2022

Her work has led to several technological advances, such as simulation tools for assessing emergency department patient flow, improved manufacturing processes for medical devices, and a sensor-based system to conduct early screening of Parkinson’s disease.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2023

13, said Dr. Keith Williamson, co-chair of the task force and medical director at the Vinson Health Center at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, TX. Dr. Keith Williamson, co-chair of the ACHA Gun Safety Task Force and medical director at the Vinson Health Center at Midwestern State University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

My long-term goal is to explore, confront and disrupt ableism (discrimination in favor of able-bodied people) in the context of nursing, applied health sciences and medical education,” said Jamal-Eddine, a doctoral student at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), College of Nursing. “I

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MAY 8, 2023

“We are certainly going to need more nurses as the population gets older, so the medical profession will be put to the test. The gift to the UH College of Nursing is meant to strengthen nursing education and research, fund scholarships and fellowships, and increase the nurse workforce.

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JULY 11, 2023

The research found that college students with loans had significantly worse self-reported physical and mental health and more major medical issues. These students also received regular dental care and were more likely to reduce medication use or delay mental, physical, or dental health care to save money.

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The Scholarly Teacher

MARCH 6, 2025

Keywords : Lab Report Template, Rubric, Hidden Curriculum Background Laboratory courses are a staple of undergraduate science programs. As students progress into the upper-level courses, it is assumed that they have a breadth of prerequisite knowledge on how to navigate the laboratory course, including completing a lab report.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 23, 2023

My long-term goal is to explore, confront and disrupt ableism (discrimination in favor of able-bodied people) in the context of nursing, applied health sciences and medical education,” said Jamal-Eddine, a doctoral student at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), College of Nursing. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2024

We’re going to produce — and it’s happening now — graduates in critical areas at the research level, at the workforce level, in ways that are meeting critical needs particularly of talent,” says Dr. Tonya L. At present, none of the nation’s 101 HBCUs has Research 1 status, which refers to doctoral universities with high research activity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

And it is for this dedicated, consistent, long-standing work that the All of Us Research Program from University of Arizona and Banner Health honored Carbajal, naming her the September/October Arizona Health Champion during National Hispanic Heritage Month this year. Do you give them the medical information and then walk away?

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Credit: Jingjing Wang In this extra post, 4th year medical student, Jess McKenzie, explores how AI can play a role in the development of OSCES (Objective Structured Clinical Examinations) in medical education. They require the creation of medically accurate and realistic cases, alongside scripts and training for the patient actors.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 19, 2023

There's more than 25 years of research by academic scholars on the experiences of students of color,” said Jessie Hernández-Reyes, lead author and senior policy analyst for higher education at EdTrust. The same student had an asthma attack and the teacher said she was faking it, so she didn’t help her get medical attention.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 3, 2024

The program is headed by two organizations housed within Marquette’s Center for Urban Research, Teaching, & Outreach (CURTO). Marquette University recently received over a million dollars from the Mellon Foundation to further energize and grow its prison education program. million award marks Mellon’s second contribution to the program.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

according to a University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UTSW) study. There are fewer surgeries on Black, Latino, and Asian children than on white children in the U.S., It is also unclear whether the results indicate overuse of surgery by white families or underuse by Black, Latino, and Asian families.

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University Business

JANUARY 21, 2025

While implementing cutting-edge academic programs may excite institutions interested in gaining a leg-up over the competition, leaders must also be mindful about optics, says Elaine Rowles, associate vice president of research at GrayDI. “Social media is ubiquitous and increasingly important part of our everyday lives. . reached $4.9

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