Affirmative Action Anonymous

Urofsky, Melvin I.

doi:10.2307/1341513

Cited by 2 publications

(4 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…The quota system, a hard affirmative action, has a long history of political controversy in the USA. 44 Despite these initiatives, changes to the diversity of medical students, and hence the medical profession, have been slow. 45 46 This is perhaps not surprising: selection and widening access to medicine has been labelled a ‘wicked problem’, that is, complex in nature, have innumerable causes associated with multiple social environments and actors with unpredictable behaviour and outcomes, and are difficult to define or even resolve.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Impact of medical students’ socioeconomic backgrounds on medical school application, admission and migration in Japan: a web-based survey

Suzuki,

Tsunekawa,

Takeda

et al. 2023

BMJ Open

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

ObjectivesThe aim of this study was to clarify and compare the socioeconomic backgrounds of medical students with those of other health professions and non-health faculty students in an era of increasing inequity in Japanese society.DesignThis was a quantitative nationwide study. Data were collected by a cross-sectional web-based anonymous questionnaire.SettingData from years 3 and 4 medical, health professions and non-health faculty students across Japan were collected in 2021.ParticipantsParticipants were 1991 students from medical schools, 224 from dental, 419 from pharmacy, 326 from nursing, 144 from other health professions and 207 from non-health faculties.ResultsThe proportion of high-income families (>18 million yen: ca. US$140 000) among medical students was 25.6%, higher than that of pharmacy (8.7%) and nursing students (4.1%) (p<0.01). One-third of medical students had a physician parent, more common than in non-medical students (p<0.01). Students who only applied to public medical schools and a regional quota ‘Chiiki-waku’ students with scholarship had lower family income and physician parents compared with those who applied to private medical schools (p<0.01), but they still had higher physician parents compared with non-medical students (p<0.01). Logistic regression revealed that having a physician parent (p<0.01), aspiring to the present profession during elementary school (p<0.01) and private upper secondary school graduation (p<0.01) predicted the likelihood of studying medicine. There were regional differences of backgrounds among medical students, and 80% of medical students with urban backgrounds intended to work in urban localities after graduation.ConclusionsThis study provides evidence that medical students in Japan hail from urban and higher income classes and physicians’ families. This finding has implications for the health workforce maldistribution in Japan. Widening the diversity of medical students is essential for solving physician workforce issues and meeting broad healthcare needs.

show abstract

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Impact of medical students’ socioeconomic backgrounds on medical school application, admission and migration in Japan: a web-based survey

Suzuki,

Tsunekawa,

Takeda

et al. 2023

BMJ Open

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Even after his surprising victory-the time when campaign rhetoric typically gives way to coherent policy platforms-the Trump White House offered few details regarding its intentions for higher education (Hope, 2017;Jaschik, 2017;Korn, 2017;Kreighbaum, 2016Kreighbaum, , 2017a. Astonishingly, they didn't even go on record with one of the most popular party planks, used by every Republican candidate elected to the presidency since the Civil Rights Era: the opposition to affirmative action 2 (Urofsky, 2020). Trump's uncharacteristic silence was met with both bemusement and critique but what policy observers failed to recognize was that the absence of an explicit higher education policy platform didn't mean that Trump was without an agenda.…”

Section: -Martin Luther Kingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Consequently, affirmative action serves as a canary in the coal mine of racial tensions. Ultimately, Trump's attacks on affirmative action aren't anything new but rather drawn from a centuries-old playbook on how to exploit White fears and further sediment the ingrained belief that BIPOC advancement equals White denigration (Bell, 2005;Edsall & Edsall, 1992;Skrentny, 2009;Sugrue, 1995;Urofsky, 2020). In the section below, we sketch the history of raceconscious admissions in higher education, noting its early positive impact followed by its retrenchment, which resulted from mounting opposition.…”

Section: Trump Higher Education Policy: Protecting White Supremacymentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Trumpocalypse and the Historical Limits of Higher Education Policy: Making the Case for Study/Struggle

Williams

Grande

2021

Qualitative Inquiry

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This essay highlights the limits of liberal reform policies designed to increase access to higher education for minoritized and marginalized groups. First, we discuss Trump’s higher education agenda, focusing on his antipathy toward these populations and his commitment to White supremacy. We then focus on affirmative action in college admissions as an exemplar of a liberal racial equity policy, sketching its history, which illustrates its anemic effect, and White countermobilization against change that existed long before Trump. Next, we detail Trump’s efforts to eliminate this policy, which is part of the same populist, ethno-nationalist, anti-immigrant, anti-Black ideological campaign that has galvanized White voters across time. Ultimately, we argue that unbridled power won’t yield to liberal reforms. As such, we shift our focus to how higher education might be reimagined as a site of transformation, offering a series of provocations for a new horizon of racial equity in universities and society.

show abstract

Affirmative Action Anonymous

Cited by 2 publications

References 0 publications

Impact of medical students’ socioeconomic backgrounds on medical school application, admission and migration in Japan: a web-based survey

Impact of medical students’ socioeconomic backgrounds on medical school application, admission and migration in Japan: a web-based survey

Trumpocalypse and the Historical Limits of Higher Education Policy: Making the Case for Study/Struggle

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About