About Us
Diversity and Excellence at Feinberg School of Medicine
Welcome to the Office of Diversity. We are proud of our longstanding commitment to diversity and excellence. We work with Feinberg students, residents, staff, and faculty to further our mission to achieve a campus environment of belonging and inclusion for all. Through mentoring programs, community partnership, recruitment initiatives and inter-campus cooperation and collaboration, we strive to help facilitate success in every domain. Our campus communities have tremendous strengths and bring a wealth of ideas and experience that inform and guide our work.
Meet the staff of the Office of Diversity
Diversity at Northwestern
"... while we properly applaud any success in attracting students, faculty, and staff who previously would have been excluded, let's not fool ourselves - once they arrive on campus, the hardest work begins. We have a long way to go before our institutions can be considered truly inclusive. I'm not talking about tolerance. People don't want to be tolerated; they want to be full members of the community. All of us deserve to be at an institution that's sensitive to our needs and to our aspirations. The values of a university are revealed not in its words but in its actions."
- Northwestern University President Morton Schapiro, Inaugural Address, October 9, 2009
The Feinberg School of Medicine has a tradition of diversity and is among the top 10 schools in the country with respect to the racial heterogeneity of the students it has graduated. That tradition reflects a commitment to diversity in research, medical education, and post-graduate training and a recognition that only through cultural competence and understanding can we truly address the disparities and help transform the healthcare environment. Through focused programs, we are working to attract more minority physicians, scientists, students, residents and fellows to expand the breadth and depth of the Northwestern family. And we are making progress -- the medical school's 2010 entering class was our most diverse ever, with nearly 19 percent underrepresented minorities. Similarly, 13 percent of newly matched residents were from underrepresented groups.
-Jeff Glassroth, MD, Interim Dean, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
This page last updated Oct 4, 2011