Medical School Accreditor Suspends ‘Diversity’ Requirements After Trump Executive Order

A major medical school accreditor responsible for all graduate-level medical programs announced it would suspend some of its “diversity” requirements, roughly two weeks after President Donald Trump signed an executive order cracking down on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) requirements among accreditors. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) explained that it would be […]

Columbia’s Armstrong to Return From Sabbatical as CEO of Medical Center

Former Columbia University president Katrina Armstrong will return to her role as CEO of Columbia’s medical center in June, according to people familiar with the matter, just a month after going on sabbatical "to spend time with her family" in the wake of a disastrous deposition in which she said she could not recall in detail a single anti-Semitic incident on campus.

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Columbia Med Students Condemn University After Classmate Who Stormed Library Returns to Campus

Columbia University medical students accused the Ivy League school of pushing a double standard after a classmate who was suspended following her arrest for storming a Barnard College building returned to campus. The student, Gabrielle Wimer, appears to be on course to graduate later this month.

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Where Columbia's $430 Million Should Go. Plus, UCLA Med Faces Federal Probe Into DEI Admissions Scandal.

Plenty to go around: The Trump administration has revoked $430 million in federal grant money from Columbia University. The school's president, Katrina Armstrong, doesn't appear keen on implementing reforms that would put Columbia on a path to restoring its relationship with the federal government. So what should the administration do with the money? We have ideas.

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Trump Administration Opens Investigation Into UCLA Medical School In Wake of DEI Admissions Scandal

The Department of Health and Human Services opened an investigation into UCLA medical school on Thursday after whistleblowers alleged that the school’s admissions office discriminates based on race, marking an escalation of a scandal that enveloped the medical school last year and raised questions about whether the doctors it was graduating were up to snuff.

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EXCLUSIVE: Medical Schools Press Ahead Answering ‘Clarion Call’ To Wokeness

'A significant departure from the traditional American emphasis on individual responsibility and equal treatment'

Exclusive: At the University of Michigan, DEI Now Hides in Office of ‘Community Culture’

As President Donald Trump unleashed a suite of executive orders targeting DEI, the University of Michigan School of Nursing began quietly revamping its website. A "diversity" tab with links to DEI resources was removed from the homepage. Pages with "DEI" in the title were renamed and purged of the offending adjective, according to web archives reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon, while the main page for the school’s diversity office—which stated, "We are not excellent if we do not reflect diversity, equity and inclusion in all aspects of our community"—was taken down entirely.

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Facing Blowback For DEI Policies, Brown Misrepresents Free Beacon Report

When doctors reached out to the dean of Brown University Medical School regarding a Washington Free Beacon report published earlier this month, they received a reply from medical school dean Mukesh Jain. "What has been reported about criteria for faculty promotion at The Warren Alpert Medical School is an egregious mischaracterization," Jain wrote

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Brown Med Puts DEI Above Clinical Skills and USAID Shutdown Threatens Foreign Climate Activists

Brown University Medical School bills itself as a "national leader in medical education and biomedical research" that has attracted "first-class physicians and researchers."

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