Posted on 09/15/2019 3:29:47 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
The medical school at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center will stop considering race as a factor in admissions, per an agreement sought by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights to resolve a 2004 complaint.
In the resolution agreement — which was signed in February and first reported by the Wall Street Journal this week — the medical school agreed to “discontinue all consideration of an applicant’s race and/or national origin” in the admissions process.
Eric Bentley, vice chancellor and general counsel of the Texas Tech University System, said in an agreement letter that the medical school is “committed to exploring race-neutral alternatives to enhancing diversity.” He wrote that “diversity in academic medicine is not only a necessity at the [school of medicine], but is a necessity nationally as well.”
Black and Hispanic people are historically underrepresented in the medical field — which can be detrimental to patients of color. In 2012, just 7.4% of medical school graduates in the U.S. were Hispanic and 6.8% were Black. Among practicing physicians, 5.2% were Hispanic and 3.8% were Black.
Bentley said the university will determine whether it is able to achieve diversity goals using race-neutral measures recommended by the Education Department. If the university wants to consider race in admissions in the future, it will have to ensure that it “provides a reasoned, principled explanation for its decision and identifies concrete and precise goals,” and that “no undue burden is imposed on applicants of any racial group.”
The agreement comes amid heightened debate over the use of race in undergraduate admissions, as a judge nears a decision in the high-profile trial over the admission of Asian American students at Harvard. The Trump Administration has also opened investigations into whether Yale and Harvard discriminate against Asian American students
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Great. Too many liberals at my old alma mater.
Considering race in admissions is racist on its face.
It's a sign of just how cockeyed our society has become that anyone can think otherwise.
How so? Nell doesn't explain.
I don’t see many white doctors these days at hospitals or offices.
Black and Hispanic people are historically underrepresented in the medical field — which can be detrimental to patients of color. In 2012, just 7.4% of medical school graduates in the U.S. were Hispanic and 6.8% were Black. Among practicing physicians, 5.2% were Hispanic and 3.8% were Black.
Why is diversity in academic medicine considered a necessity? Remember, we are talking about diversity of skin tone and one kind of ethnic ancestry? Why?
The presumption, presented without evidence, expected to be assumed without evidence, is that discrimination against some people of color and/or Hispanic ancestry prevents them from achieving the same levels of employment in all fields as, say, Jews, Asians, or in the case of Hispanics, other European based ancestries.
There is virtually no reliable evidence to support such assumptions. There is plenty of evidence to support the contention the assumption is wrong.
Why then is it considered a necessity?
Strictly for political and ideological reasons.
I about fell out of my chair when I read that. How on Earth does a doctor’s skin color impact the treatment of a patient whose skin tone is different?
While I was getting my drivers license renewed here in Houston, they were running ads on the screens about how all the medical research done was done by old white people and that research led to bad decisions on the health and welfare of people of color.
Oh yeah, they want serious ethnic diversity in the medical field, it’s going to be another area where groups self segregate because you just know white people arent going to be looking after the black and brown patients correctly. /wth and loads of sarcasm
“Black and Hispanic people are historically underrepresented in the medical field — WHICH CAN BE DETRIMENTAL TO PATIENTS OF COLOR.”
That makes no sense whatsoever. Ridiculous.
Somebody once commented here that, for instance, the grads of Howard University College of Medicine have a statistically high number of malpractice awards above the mean, increasing the insurance burden among all MDs, and therefore increasing medical costs to patients and taxpayers.
Perhaps Howard Med could use some diversity.
Then again, I think they got rid of the medical school dean that tried to increase standards, and replaced him with a concerned racist.
“Patients of color” can’t have white doctors?
It’s ridiculous - the race baiters have continued to push the fake concept that in any profession or customer service line, or for that matter, education, that “I need somebody who looks like me.” No, you don’t - you need somebody who can do the job they are trained to do, hopefully the most qualified!
” (if not for AA) every Freshman class would be made up entirely of Asians and Jews.”
I don’t have a problem with that — if they’re the best of the best.
It’s about as logical as if I got on a bus with a black bus driver and FEEL my experience is diminished by not having a driver who looks like me.
Total leftist nonsense.
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