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“What We Do Have, We Can Polish”: Towards Quare Placemaking In Lgbtq+ Student Affairs, K. Elyse Ellis
“What We Do Have, We Can Polish”: Towards Quare Placemaking In Lgbtq+ Student Affairs, K. Elyse Ellis
The Vermont Connection
Both Queer studies and Black studies have come a long way in the last decade of higher education scholarship. Even so, there is still a gap in the literature of dual-marginalized students, particularly Black Queer students. Drawing from multiple critical theories, this literature review looks at how secondary marginalization takes place in single-identity campus centers, and how Black Queer students co-create spaces for themselves in response to this violence. How do single-identity centers on campuses harm Quare students? How does centering blackness in Quare communities impact student experiences? What can we learn from Quare social life, and how can student …
Exploring Intersectional Typologies Of (Dis)Advantage In United States Medical School Applicants, Alison Howe
Exploring Intersectional Typologies Of (Dis)Advantage In United States Medical School Applicants, Alison Howe
Graduate College Dissertations and Theses
Increasing diversity in the medical workforce is necessary to address public health needs and reduce health disparities, particularly in low-income and minority communities. The populations that experience these inequalities are the same populations that remain underrepresented in medicine. Research has demonstrated that social-concordance in the physician-patient dyad is associated with better patient outcomes and that students from underserved communities are more likely to return to practice in underserved areas. Despite academic medicine’s continued commitment to admitting and training diverse individuals to address health disparities and increase cultural competency in medical students, a three-decade trend of the majority of medical students …