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Medical Schools Embrace Efforts Post-Affirmative Action Decision

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The ruling sent medical schools across the nation scrambling to adjust admission standards to abide by the new law of the land. These barriers [to entry] manifest early, prior to even applying to medical school,” says Faiz. Dr. Jessica Faiz. Pacific Islanders and Native Americans combined make up just 0.4% of physicians.

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Meharry School of Dentistry to Launch Innovation Center for Dental Technology and Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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Health Equity, Working to Identify Effective Policy Interventions

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Hung is assistant professor of health services policy and management in the University of South Carolina’s (USC) Arnold School of Public Health. Since 2009, she’s been engaged in research relating to health services and health equity, she said. “My Hung earned her Ph.D.

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For the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As researchers, practitioners, and healthcare workers reflect on the events of the last two and a half years, programs related to public health have become a priority at many colleges and universities. Examples of possible careers in the field include nursing home administrators and health quality managers, according to Ongeri.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Through partnerships with organizations such as the aerospace and defense technology company Northrop Grumman, EPW is able to offer internships and research opportunities. They can work on their mentor’s already established research project or develop their own.

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Student-athletes are at double the risk of suicide than they were two decades ago, study

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Researchers from the University of Washington, the University of Wisconsin at Madison and Oregon Health and Science University found that between July 2002 and June 2022, the rate of NCAA varsity athlete deaths by suicide rose to 15.3%, an alarm-raising jump from 7.6%.

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Looking to Grow Your Health Care Administration Program? Here Are Four Tips

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Between the 2016-17 and 2020-21 academic years, bachelor’s-level health care administration programs grew by 9.41%, in part to meet rising employer demand for health care administration professionals. Here are four components of a successful health care administration program—and profiles of five institutions succeeding in this market.