COVID's disruptions will produce some long-lasting innovations in one lofty corner of higher education: graduate-level STEM programs.

Advocates say changes are urgently needed as the COVID economic crisis could create a historically large wave of transfer students, who are more likely to be Black, Latinx and Native American.

As we navigate the perfect storm that is the confluence of COVID-19, its resultant economic upheaval, and structural racial issues, we must reimagine the higher ed opportunity ecosystem of our nation.

The Lisa and James Wilson Institute for Medicine at Albion College in Michigan is embarking on college-wide premedical curriculum reform, including efforts to increase diversity among physicians. Here's a look at the changes they made and how the COVID-19 pandemic can serve as an opportunity for all medical schools to adapt their programming.