NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Bloomberg’s organization Bloomberg Philanthropies is announcing a $600 million gift to the endowments of four historically Black...
NEW YORK — Michael Bloomberg ’s organization Bloomberg Philanthropies is announcing a $600 million gift to the endowments of four historically Black medical schools .
“When we talked about helping to secure and support the next generation of Black doctors, we meant that literally,” Ezediaro said. Denise Smith, deputy director of higher education policy and a senior fellow at The Century Foundation, said the gift to Spelman was the largest single donation to an HBCU that she was aware of, speaking before Bloomberg Philanthropies announcement Tuesday.and other higher education institutions, including the failure of many states to fulfill their promises to fund historically Black land grant schools.
Utibe Essien, a physician and assistant professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, who researches racial disparities in treatment, said more investment and investment in earlier educational support before high school and college would make a difference in the number of Black students who decide to pursue medicine.
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