Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
AUGUST 16, 2023
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.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 2, 2022
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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 19, 2022
The 15 schools make up one cohort – of seven – that is part of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s (HHMI) $60 million Inclusive Excellence 3 (IE3) initiative, which asks schools to substantially and sustainably capacity-build towards student belonging, especially for those historically excluded from the sciences.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Awaiting them in the program are two tracks: one on the science of cannabis and the other on the social justice and policy around cannabis. adults in favor of legalization at 88% – 59% supported legalization for both medical and recreational use. Similarly in 2022, the Pew Research Center put the percentage of U.S.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MAY 25, 2023
In a press conference Thursday, the organization took credit for the university’s February decision that it would not require DEI statements from job and tenure candidates, as well as the school’s recent confirmation that a task force to integrate social justice into curricula had been disbanded and its recommendations not taken.
University Business
JUNE 27, 2023
Higher education’s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion is nearing a potential inflection point as two trends coalesce this summer: State bills stamping out DEI offices and two Supreme Court rulings are expected to strike down affirmative action in the coming days. At the campus level, colleges risk isolating students.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
Health inequity is the social justice issue of our time.” Understanding the social justice component, four professors at Sacred Heart University — Drs. “We’re diversifying the healthcare workforce. The more diversity you have in the healthcare workforce, the better access you’re going to have for patients.
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