Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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For the first time in nearly 50 years, the number of Black medical schools in the country is growing. The fourth and newest, an independent four-year medical program at the Charles R. CDU joins Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee, the Howard University College of Medicine in Washington, D.C., Dr. John W.

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AUGUST 1, 2023

Yolanda Lawson will become the next president of the National Medical Association (NMA). Lawson is the founder of MadeWell OBGYN and currently the associate attending at Baylor University Medical Center. from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Lawson holds an M.D. Lawson holds an M.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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 fact that we had an increase of 3% last year, we don’t take that for granted.”

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The Guardian Higher Education

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Sutton Trust says underrepresentation of poorer students is outrageous but number has doubled in 10 years to 2022 Students from working class backgrounds still only make up 5% of entrants to medical schools across the UK, a proportion that has doubled over the past decade, analysis has found. Continue reading.

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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

MAY 21, 2023

The Ohio State University (OSU) College of Medicine will receive $15 million to create a new women's health research program. Warner, CEO of The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and executive vice president at Ohio State, said in a statement.

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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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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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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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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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Confessions of a Community College Dean

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Are 3 Years of Medical School as Good as 4? kathryn.palmer… Mon, 11/04/2024 - 03:00 AM The number of accelerated medical degree programs has tripled over the past decade. New research shows that outcomes are similar to those of four-year programs. Byline(s) Kathryn Palmer

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 26, 2024

community, attract the best physicians in the nation to support comprehensive healing and ensure a superior learning environment for medical students and residents.” He serves as the chief medical officer for the Howard University Faculty Practice Plan and professor of pathology in Howard’s College of Medicine. Ben Vinson III.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. The new institute has an ambitious mission. of all practicing U.S.

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Great College Advice

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Winter of Senior Year Communicate with Colleges If you have experienced unusual circumstances recently that affect your ability to pay for college that aren’t reflected on your submitted FAFSA (unemployment, medical expenses, a death in the family, etc.), inform the financial aid office about them.

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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

AUGUST 15, 2024

Jessica Snowden Jessica Snowden has been named vice chancellor for research at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Positions such as data scientists, medical and health service managers, physician assistants, and epidemiologists highlight the immense potential need for students entering these fields. Similarly, Hispanic students earned 12% of STEM bachelors degrees, despite comprising 15% of all bachelors degree recipients (Pew Research Center).

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Margie Lee Margie Lee has been appointed associate dean for research and graduate studies at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine. in medical microbiology from the University of Georgia, and a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine.

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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. Block Distinguished Service Professor of Health Justice and vice provost. Gilliam holds a B.A.

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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

AUGUST 1, 2023

Experts across the medical field and policymakers gathered earlier this week to discuss gun violence prevention efforts in Black communities across the nation. Jada Watts is a member of the Student National Medical Association and member of the Howard University Taskforce at Howard University Hospital. "If

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The study – done by researchers at Harvard Medical School, the University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins, Drexel University, and Duke University – found that the odds of dying for Blacks were 26% higher than for white counterparts and that much of that life expectancy gap can be attributed to wealth differences.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

Meharry Medical College’s School of Dentistry is launching an innovation center for dental technology and education to establish five new examination rooms. Meharry Medical College’s School of Dentistry will be launching a new innovation center for dental technology and education, slated to open in the next year.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 12, 2024

“Chris Edley was a smart, caring, determined advocate for justice who could move easily and powerfully through the mazes of top levels of law, politics, and research,” said Orfield, who is Distinguished Research Professor at UCLA Graduate School of Education and co-director of The Civil Rights Project at UCLA. Orrick, Jr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Outside of Duke, Bennett served as president of the Society of Behavioral Medicine and is a fellow of the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research and an elected member of the Behavioral Medicine Research Council. Bennett holds a Ph.D. and an A.M.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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

JUNE 13, 2024

At this crucial moment for higher education, returning to the public sector to lead one of the top research universities in the world — including one of the 10 largest academic health systems — is an exciting opportunity and a great honor for me,” said Frenk. Julio Frenk is expected to become UCLA's seventh chancellor. “At

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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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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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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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FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The author of Medicine and Ethics in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction (2015), her interdisciplinary research in the field of the medical humanities engages literary, historical, philosophical, and ethical explorations of black women’s health and medicine. Jones is also an associate professor of Africana Studies.

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DECEMBER 30, 2022

People in prison do not trust medical staff in the prisons to make decisions that will impact their health in a positive way,” said Wanda Bertram, communications strategist at the Prison Policy Institute, a nonprofit and nonpartisan research and advocacy organization working to end mass incarceration.

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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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