Black Women in Higher Education: College of Medicine
AUTHOR: Omotola Ogundipe
The Howard University College of Medicine (HUCM) was founded in 1868 in response to the growing population of Washington (Dyson, 1929). From Howard’s founding in the 1860s to the 1960s, Howard and Meharry trained most of the nation’s African-American physicians (Flexner, 1910). Howard University has had a strong record of educating women physicians. In recent years, there have been noticeable advancements in increasing the representation of women in leadership positions at HUCM, but there are areas where disparities persist in both high-ranking administrative positions and promotion and tenure to full professor. Despite this, the increasing representation of women in medicine over the years has been a remarkable achievement, with near parity in the number of male and female faculty.