I think it is great that their enrollment dropped dramatically and that they are seeing consequences. I just hope that the administrators’ severance packages are light.
The reason why race is an accredidation factor is to try and increase the number of minority physicians to avoid scenarios where you have a bunch of UVA medical students believing that black people have fundamentally different pain pathways and thus don’t require as much pain medication as white people (https://news.virginia.edu/content/study-links-disparities-pain-management-racial-bias)
For those of you outside medicine for whom I would be far less disgusted about having this mixed up. Black and white people feel pain exactly the same.