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October 18, 2007

Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation Awards Grant to American Dental Education Association to Increase Diversity of Dental Workforce

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The Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation has awarded a grant of $550,457 to the American Dental Education Association (ADEA) to increase the diversity of the dental workforce in the United States. ADEA will serve as the host organization and coordinating committee of the program entitled Moving Forward: Bridging the Gap. The grant will fund the planning process to implement a flexible seven-year dental curriculum, modeled after one currently used in medicine, to prepare a new cadre of underrepresented minority and low-income (URM/LI) students for the practice of dentistry. Read more from this post.