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26 Jan, 8 tweets, 2 min read
Just a few thoughts on all the folks & corps that want to start new scholarships for URVM DVM students...

Scholarships are great; yes, they increase access.

The rub is that *everyone* seems to want their *own* scholarship program rather than pooling resources.
Hardly anyone of y'all have deep enough pockets to play this money game in a manner that really, substantially reduces $$ burden for a critical mass of URVM students. #realtalk

All these individual prgms do is nickle & dime the problem while we all sit back & pat ourselves...
We all justify this by saying things like, "I know this $5-10K isn't much, but every little bit helps."

Yeah, ok, but let's talk about the wasted resources on overlapping administrative burdens.
How about the 50-11 scholarship applications URVM students have to complete to cobble together funding. Do folks not recall that applying for scholarships is like a PT job?

Current recommendations spend 5 hrs min a week in order to pull in enough $$ to be worth it.
And we haven't even gotten to the place where we talk about what's going to be in that application, & how the sneaky "merit" piece will undoubtedly enter the chat...even though it's *supposed* to be about need.
Stop being parochial in the scholarship game.

Competitors, all y'all should get together, chat, form a scholarship consortium & pool resources. Make it a 1 stop shop. Reduce the waste inherent in multiple awards, get the biggest ROI by working together.
These piecemeal approaches are simply not as effective. Be bold and do something different.
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Please stop acting like we do not know why this profession isn't racially diverse. Stop it. There is solid research on why BIPOC students are not represented in STEM, health professions & vet med.
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A leaky educational pipeline that also pathologizes & criminalizes Black and brown students, thus removing them from the pipeline.
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It's not just that the student may be winging it on their own. It's that the student may be shouldering multiple financial burdens because the whole *family* is stuck in poverty.

Hopes & dreams are riding on success, but so is the light bill.
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There's a population of young folk that have to do both-self finance *&* pitch in on sustaining the family.
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That's great & all, but where do you think new faculty come from? They come from more diverse student ranks.
We can't shift focus; we must EXPAND focus to look at the entire lifespan of an academic #Veterinarian.

That means: Supporting K-12 student interest, creating pathways that keep URVM students in the pipeline. Successfully admitting & matriculating URVM #vetstudents.
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