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This medical exam tried ditching test scores to help students. It backfired

University Business

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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Dr. Melissa Gilliam to Lead Boston University as Historic First

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Even with the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down affirmative action in college admissions, there remains ways to promote student diversity, Gilliam told The Boston Globe. Establishing and maintaining pre-admissions connections with prospective students and a range of high schools will be important, she said. “If

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The Ongoing Fight for Diversity in Higher Ed

Higher Ed Connects: Diversity

The University of Texas at Austin currently faces the latest in a series of lawsuits challenging the University’s admissions policies. The number of Hispanic students has increased dramatically since the passage of the 1997 law, and the current race-conscious admissions program at UT survived a challenge at the Supreme Court in 2016.