Opinion: Texas Tech agreement to abandon race in med school admissions will worsen health disparities
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by Marcella Alsan and Owen Garrick
Apr 25, 2019
3 minutes
A recent agreement between the medical school of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and the Trump administration that forces the school to stop considering race as a factor in its admissions processes is a step backward for improving health care in the United States.
The agreement ends a 14-year investigation by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights into the university’s use of race in admissions. It represents a sharp reversal to the university’s
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