Posted on 07/06/2018 4:41:26 PM PDT by reaganaut1
The lobby for hundreds of medical schools and teaching hospitals Wednesday said it was “deeply concerned” that the Trump administration was rescinding guidance on consideration of race in university admissions.
The 4th of July announcement by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) comes after U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded 24 Obama-era guidance documents on affirmative action the Trump justice department said were “unnecessary, outdated, inconsistent with existing law or otherwise improper.” A joint letter from the Justice Department and the Department of Education said the Obama administration advocated policy and "positions beyond the requirements of the Constitution,” the New York Times reported.
But the AAMC said the Trump administration’s move “signals opposition to the consideration of race as one of many individualized factors in higher education admissions, despite the fact that the Supreme Court has upheld this practice for 40 years, and as recently as 2016.”
“Medical student diversity is necessary to prepare physicians to provide care to an increasingly diverse population and to address significant health disparities,” AAMC President and CEO Dr. Darrell Kirch said.
Medical schools and residency programs in teaching hospitals said the Trump administration’s move flies in the face of efforts to produce “more engaged” students and “higher-performing” doctors. The AAMC represents more than 150 U.S. medical schools and nearly 400 academic medical centers and teaching health systems.
“To prepare a physician workforce for these challenges, many medical schools have determined that it is necessary to include the consideration of race and ethnicity, along with many other factors, in the admissions process,” Kirch said. “Individualized, holistic review of each applicant—carried out under long-standing Supreme Court precedent—leads to a more engaged student body and to higher-performing students."
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That’s probably a strong motivator at a lot of schools, though obviously not so much at the Ivy League level. They just want enough students and graduates of the right racial makeup to keep the sort of SJWs that they themselves produce off their backs.
“though obviously not so much at the Ivy League level.”
turns out that they, too, are Title IV chasing schools. I don’t have the source now but last years I say they had about a 30% Title IV funded rate.
Still squat compared to their billions in endowment, etc.
But I suppose could be more of a factor than I’d realized.
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