Michael Bowie

Presenting at the Nexus Summit:

In the health professions pipeline, attrition of Black students is a substantial issue. Black college students face several challenges, including a lack of academic integration and institutional support, resource barriers, and few role models. Nationally, Black students enter college at a similar rate to White students but change majors or leave college before receiving a degree (Wilbur et al., 2020). Black students often present high distress, isolation, depression, and anxiety (Soto et al., 2016). These factors, combined with systemic racism and overlapping crises, fail to encourage Black…