Programs that Attract and Support Diverse Students

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Programs That Attract and Support Diverse Students

Enhance program offerings to attract and support diverse students, focusing on expanding outreach, creating cost-effective pathways for medical education, and increasing tuition scholarship opportunities to alleviate student debt burden.
Key Objectives:
  • Enhance accessibility by reducing financial barriers through increased scholarships.
  • Improve student success by creating a supportive and inclusive academic environment.
  • Promote diversity by attracting and supporting students from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds.
Supoorting Tactics
  1. Accelerated and/or other approaches to offering more cost-effective pathways for students to complete their education and training.
  2. Collaboration opportunities across the Temple enterprise to create new and enhance joint, interdisciplinary education programs.
  3. Conduct a targeted campaign to raise funds (aspirational target) for tuition scholarships.
  4. Enhance and expand support services, such as counseling and academic assistance, to address the unique needs of all students.

Working Group Members

 

Group Champions 

  
Abby Berkeley, MD  Interim Senior Associate Dean, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion 
Christine Mount, PA-C  Program Director, Physician Assistant Program 

Members

Robert Bettiker, MD/MGA  Professor, Medicine 
Lindsay Kuo, MD  Associate Professor, Surgery 
Lawrence Kaplan, MD  Associate Dean, Interprofessional education 
April Morton  Physician/Faculty Recruiter 
Lawrence Oresanya, MD  Associate Professor, Surgery 
Joanna Elkes Pierce  Senior Director, Corporate and Foundation Relations and Special Initiatives 
Steve Popoff, PhD  Chair and Professor, Department of Biomedical Education and Data Science 
Stefan Schechs  Assistant Director, Admissions 
Scott Shore, PhD  Associate Dean, Graduate and Postbaccalaureate Programs 
Maria Zimmerman  Associate Director, Admissions