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Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine (BCOM) received the 2022 Health Professions Higher Education Excellence successful Diversity (HEED) Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, BCOM said successful a quality release.
“The HEED Award recognizes those colleges that prioritize diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and spell supra and beyond for their students, faculty, unit and communities,” the assemblage said. “Burrell is the lone aesculapian assemblage successful the United States with a ngo addressing healthcare successful the southwestern United States and its borderline with bluish Mexico.”
The grant marks the archetypal clip the assemblage has been selected for the recognition, which is presented annually by the oldest and largest diversity-focused work successful higher education, BCOM said.
Burrell was 1 of six osteopathic aesculapian schools to person the honor.
“We are honored to beryllium a recipient of the 2022 HEED,” said BCOM President John L. Hummer. “This is simply a testament of our full team’s dedication to our ngo and dedication towards a much diverse, equitable and inclusive campus.”
“I americium precise arrogant of our Burrell College assemblage for being recognized with the HEED Award,” said BCOM Dean Dr. Bill Pieratt. “We prioritize excellence done diversity, equity, and inclusion, and this grant is simply a well-deserved testament to the efforts enactment distant by our students, faculty, and staff.”
As a recipient of the HEED Award, Burrell volition beryllium featured, on with 63 different recipients, successful the December 2022 contented of INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine.
The HEED grant “involves a rigorous exertion process that examines the recruitment, retention and enactment of underrepresented students and employees, effectual enactment successful diverseness mission-setting, innovative programming aimed astatine inclusive excellence, and galore different aspects of diverseness and inclusion crossed campus,” said INSIGHT Publisher Lenore Pearlstein.
Of each students enrolled astatine BCOM this year, 57 percent are female, and 23 percent are underrepresented minorities successful medicine, the assemblage said.
Since opening its doors successful 2013, the four-year, backstage osteopathic aesculapian schoolhouse “has matriculated betwixt 21 percent and 32 percent of students from underrepresented populations successful medicine,” BCOM said.
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