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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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Saint Louis University Launches Institute for Translational Neuroscience

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Saint Louis University (SLU) has launched its Institute for Translational Neuroscience (ITN), which will connect experts in biochemistry, chemistry, pharmacology, social justice, and community outreach to study the brain and central nervous system.

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Dr. Melissa Gilliam to Lead Boston University as Historic First

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Gilliam also said that, given her medical background, she was uniquely positioned to strengthen ties with BU’s Medical Campus. “What is more frustrating to me is that in this day and age, I am still doing things that are first,” Gilliam said in a BU press release. And it just isn’t.” Gilliam holds a B.A.

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How intentional building design helps these colleges build community synergy

University Business

While the museum is still enjoyed by students traversing campus and approximately 12,000 K12 students each year, the 40-year-old facility has lost touch with the outside community. . The post How intentional building design helps these colleges build community synergy appeared first on University Business.

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Panel Explores Gun Prevention in Black Communities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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The Ongoing Fight for Diversity in Higher Ed

Higher Ed Connects: Diversity

Texas Tech’s medical school, by contrast, has chosen a different path. The school instituted a race-conscious admissions policy in the early 2000s in an attempt to enroll more Hispanic students, in hopes that they would practice in underserved West Texas communities. This next challenge will take place at Texas’ 3rd Court of Appeals.

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The Humanities are in the Midst of a Historic Paradigm Shift

Confessions of a Community College Dean

As the Manhattan Institute report suggests, these concepts are no more inescapable, at least on a college campus, than terms like culture or total institutions or identity crisis were during my undergraduate days. This paradigm shift did not take place overnight. He argues, for example, that the U.S. This shift is, of course, partial and contested.