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The For Us All campaign was born from a town hall meeting at the 2024 conference. Using the decades of collective wisdom and experience amassed by alliance members, we can challenge narratives pushed by those who seek to maintain the status quo—where healthcare and health professional education prioritize the needs of a privileged few over the needs of everyone who makes our society great....

With election day now behind us and the results in, we are now getting inklings about how the second Trump administration will look in terms of personnel and policy. Early signals suggest that the administration will focus on restructuring federal programs, deregulating healthcare in some areas and bolstering regulations in others. This shift raises critical questions about how these leaders will address health workforce shortages, funding for education and training programs, and the role of federal agencies in supporting underserved…

he week leading up to the presidential election can only be described as chaotic. As both candidates make final pushes in the swing states, healthcare and education issues have fallen by the wayside; however, two big issues have managed to gain steam...

The effects of the Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) decision – which overturned affirmative action in higher education – are now just being realized. Colleges and universities across the country have been releasing the diversity numbers of their most recent entering classes and the results are mixed....

New op-ed published in MedPage Today by Toyese Oyeyemi, Maria Portela, and Ed Salsberg. This piece discusses potential limitations placed on accreditation agencies, changing of reproductive health learning, threats to financial aid, and more.  ...

This past month saw record donations made to several of the nation's top historically black medical schools. A gift from the Bloomberg Philanthropies, the donations included $175 million to Meharry Medical College, Morehouse School of Medicine, and Howard University College of Medicine, as well as $75 million to Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science....

The past month of the presidential race has brought increased visibility to the respective health workforce and higher education implications of each candidate. Candidate Trump’s pick of Senator JD Vance (R-OH) for Vice President portends a potentially harsh policy environment for higher education and healthcare....

Last month saw a dramatic rise in student protests against Israel's invasion of Gaza and a subsequent violent pushback from university authorities and the police. This month, major universities have begun to experience the fallout of their actions...

Social Mission Alliance team member Nadia Bey published an op-ed on June 13, 2024 in NC Newsline, discussing the repeal of a scholarship formerly reserved for Black students at Duke, pre-existing concerns about campus climate and Black enrollment, and how how additional recent changes to Duke's merit scholarship structure will negatively impact who has the ability to enroll. ...

The Social Mission Alliance's vision for health professional training is grounded in the belief that reform of institutional policies are key to advancing health equity and creating a health professional workforce that will live out values of social justice. For this reason, we object to the increasingly aggressive tactics Universities...