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Chief Diversity Officer Steps Down Amid Backlash Over ‘Privilege’ Email

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Sherita Hill Golden has stepped down from her role as vice president and chief diversity officer at Johns Hopkins Medicine. The only appropriate action on the part of Johns Hopkins Medicine is to fire that individual immediately.” Golden issued an apology in January for defining “privilege” and retracted it.

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A New Paper Defends the Use of Race in Medicine. Not Everyone is Convinced.

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Venkataramani, an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania, don’t disagree that race is a made-up category and that race doesn’t cause any disease. Opponents of the use of race argue that the categories just don’t work. Bernard Ackerman professor of the culture of medicine at Harvard University. Jones, the A.

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Medical Schools Embrace Efforts Post-Affirmative Action Decision

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This is why we really can’t be doing enough to recruit underrepresented groups to medicine, and why the recent Supreme Court decision really sets us back, while we are already behind.” Foster School of Medicine is a stone’s throw away from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, just across the Rio Grande River. physicians are Black, and 6.9%

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MIT and Harvard lift U.S. universities past U.K. in world rankings

University Business

Academic disciplines were grouped into five categories: Arts and Humanities, Engineering and Technology, Life Sciences and Medicine, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences and Management. Here are the top three schools per the five general subject categories: Arts and Humanities Harvard University University of Cambridge (U.K.)

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What do students think about value for money?

SRHE

Students in the first category of the typology view their degree as an essential requirement for their career. Students in this category are enrolled in STEM or Medicine courses and have a clear idea of what they would like to do upon graduation. The second category of students described their degree as an investment.

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Oh, the humanit(ies)! Why integrating the liberal arts and STEM is a win-win for students, institutions

University Business

“Our students don’t want to come here to be pigeonholed into narrow-band categories,” said Utz. A report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine found increased soft skills competencies in students whose medical education was integrated with the humanities and arts.

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Don’t Use Zoom Fatigue as a Convenient Scapegoat for Exhaustion

The Scholarly Teacher

University of North Carolina School of Medicine. To open the conversation, let’s break Zoom fatigue into three categories: life demands, screen time, and social demands. The first category is life fatigue. Addressing this category of fatigue requires much more than turning the video off during a Zoom meeting.

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