The proposed federal legislation prohibits medical schools from having diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives or risk losing federal funding.
Medical schools with diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives could lose federal funding under a new bill proposed this week in the US House of Representatives.
The legislation highlights a larger national backlash, largely led by conservatives, against considering race and ethnicity in higher education after the Supreme Court overturned affirmative action last summer. Industry groups are also grappling with anti-DEI sentiment. Earlier this month, the American Academy of Dermatology's annual meeting took anwhen a member physician and 92 colleagues petitioned the academy to end its DEI programs, including scholarships and mentoring. A committee hearing the petition declined to send it to the Academy’s board., argued that DEI ideology violates freedom of speech and allows medical schools to reject candidates for not being progressive enough.
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