School of Nursing and Allied Health (a division of FDU Health) receives Insight Into Diversity 2023 HEED Award
(Teaneck, NJ) October 12, 2023—The Henry P. Becton School of Nursing and Allied Health (a division of FDU Health) has received the 2023 Health Professions Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, the oldest and largest diversity-focused publication in higher education. As a recipient of the annual Health Professions HEED Award — a national honor recognizing U.S. health colleges and universities that demonstrate an outstanding commitment to diversity and inclusion — FDU will be featured, along with 63 other nationally-representing recipients, in the November/December 2023 issue of INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine.
“Fairleigh Dickinson University is honored to be awarded the HEED award by INSIGHT into Diversity,” said Annie Rohan, Dean of the Henry P. Becton School of Nursing and Allied Health. “By promoting diversity and inclusion in healthcare education, students develop the skills and knowledge needed to understand the social determinants of health, provide culturally relevant care, and develop meaningful strategies to reduce health disparities. Additionally, a diverse and inclusive healthcare workforce can better understand the communities they serve, foster access to care, and improve overall quality of care.”
FDU’s School of Nursing and Allied Health uses many resources to reach toward the goal of ensuring that our healthcare education programs are inclusive of a wide range of perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds, to best confront individual and systematic bias, and healthcare disparities.
“The Health Professions HEED Award process consists of a comprehensive and rigorous application that includes questions relating to the recruitment and retention of students and employees — and best practices for both — continued leadership support for diversity, and other aspects of campus diversity and inclusion,” says Lenore Pearlstein, publisher of INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine. “We take a detailed approach to reviewing each application in deciding who will be named a Health Professions HEED Award recipient. Our standards are high, and we look for schools where diversity and inclusion are woven into the work being done every day across their campus.”
Other recipients of the 2023 INSIGHT Into Diversity Health Professions HEED Award are:
T. Still University of Health Studies
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing, University of California, Davis
Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine
California State University Los Angeles, Patricia A. Chin School of Nursing
Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine
Frontier Nursing University
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College
Jane and Robert Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth Houston, Texas
Johns Hopkins School of Nursing
Kansas City University
Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine
Louisiana State University School of Veterinary Medicine
Loyola University Chicago Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing
MGH Institute of Health Professions
New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing
Nova Southeastern University College of Optometry
Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
Purdue University
School of Nursing, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Southeast Health Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine
State University of New York at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine
State University of New York College of Optometry
Texas A&M University Irma Lerma Rangel School of Pharmacy
The Medical College of Wisconsin
The Medical University of South Carolina
The Ohio State University College of Medicine
The Ohio State University College of Nursing
The Ohio State University College of Optometry
The Ohio State University College of Pharmacy
The Ohio State University College of Public Health
The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine
The University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix
The University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy
Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine, New York
Tulane School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
University of California Davis School of Veterinary Medicine
University of California Riverside School of Medicine
University of California Irvine School of Medicine
University of California, Davis, School of Medicine
University of Cincinnati College of Nursing
University of Cincinnati James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy
University of Cincinnati College of Allied Health Sciences
University of Florida College of Dentistry
University of Florida College of Pharmacy
University of Houston Andy and Barbara Gessner College of Nursing
University of Kentucky, College of Medicine, Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
University of Louisville Health Sciences Center
University of Maryland, Baltimore School of Nursing
University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
University of Michigan Medical School – Michigan Medicine
University of Minnesota School of Nursing
University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
University of Rochester School of Nursing
University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine
University of Virginia School of Medicine
University of Wisconsin–Madison, School of Pharmacy
Vanderbilt University School of Nursing
Virginia Commonwealth University, College of Health Professions
Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine
For more information about the 2023 INSIGHT Into Diversity Health Professions HEED Award, visit insightintodiversity.com.
About INSIGHT Into Diversity
INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine is the leader in advancing best practices in DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) in higher education. Through thought-provoking print and online articles, we share expert advice, valuable resources, in-depth profiles of top DEI programs at colleges and universities, headline news, and much more to help keep our readers informed and empower them to advance DEI initiatives at their institutions. To further our mission, we created the INSIGHT Into Diversity Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award in 2012. The HEED Award — including the more targeted INSIGHT Into Diversity Health Professions, Law School, and Community College HEED Awards — is the only national honor to recognize institutions of higher education for their outstanding commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Current, archived, and digital issues of INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine are available online at insightintodiversity.com