The ADEA House of Delegates approved six resolutions,
including one that establishes a policy that discourages the use of dental
school rankings, in the wake of a special June 9 virtual meeting.
The approval of the six resolutions, via electronic voting,
follows the earlier approval—during the 2022 ADEA Annual Session & Exhibition in
March—of four other resolutions, along with the election of the 2022-23
Chair-elect of the ADEA
Board of Directors: Ana N. López-Fuentes, D.M.D., M.P.H.,
Professor and former Dean of the University of Puerto Rico School of Dental
Medicine.
The June 9 House of Delegates meeting was prompted because
a quorum was not reached at the March 22 closing session of the House of
Delegates, so the six resolutions could not be considered at that time.
The resolution that established an ADEA policy on dental
school rankings stemmed from concerns that such rankings could be arbitrary and
harmful to the reputations of individual schools, students, alumni and the
profession of dentistry as a whole.
Furthermore, the policy states: “Dental schools should be
discouraged from using such rankings in student recruitment materials, public
communications and alumni publications.”
The six resolutions approved by the House of Delegates are:
- 5H-2022 ADEA Bylaws Changes to Corporate
Membership
- 6H-2022 ADEA Policy on Dental School Ranking
- 7H-2022 Special Interest Group on
Evidence-based Dentistry Becomes the ADEA Section on Evidence-based Dentistry
- 8H-2022 ADEA Gay-Straight Alliance Name Change
to ADEA PRIDE
- 9H-2022 Provisional Membership of Ponce Health
Sciences University School of Dental Medicine
- 10H-2022 Provisional Membership of High Point
University School of Dental Medicine and Oral Health
For more information about all resolutions, download the
2022 ADEA House of Delegates Manual from the ADEA
House of Delegates webpage.
Published on July 13,
2022