As the University of Iowa winds down operations at the 485-acre Macbride Nature Recreation Area – having decided to terminate its 66-year lease of the property and with it the discovery, innovation, and exploration of the land that’s captivated elementary students to UI professors for decades – officials are notifying programs using the facility about next steps, including when they need to be out.
Despite continued contamination and nitrate spikes in Iowa’s rivers and streams this year, University of Iowa researcher Elliot Anderson insists that the state’s water quality issues can be solved.
In line with legislation requiring Iowa’s public universities to start offering shorter paths to a degree — launching students into the workforce more quickly — the University of Northern Iowa this month debuted a new elementary education “degree in 3.”
Iowa’s Board of Regents for the first time is seeking a firm, rather than a single person, to serve as its legislative liaison and state relations representative for the University of Iowa in dealings with the Legislature and executive branch.
With a growing chorus of constituents urging Iowa’s Board of Regents to either sign or reject the Trump Administration’s proposed “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” a board spokesman confirmed, “We are reviewing the compact.”
Linn County Sustainability Director Cara Matteson explains the reasoning behind the research.
Revenue sharing with student athletes will account for at least $41 million, or 13 percent, of Iowa’s public university athletic department expenses this budget year, according to the first higher education-related research report from the two-year-old Iowa branch of the nonpartisan Common Sense Institute.
A group of seven donors and UI leaders this month have launched a national search for the next president of its $2.2 billion philanthropic enterprise after Lynette Marshall in May announced plans to retire.
In an effort to keep an Iowa water quality sensor program afloat past next June, Polk County Supervisors voted this week to invest funds in it, and they invited Linn and Johnson counties to do the same.
Historians, archivists, donors, and community members suing to prevent closure of the State Historical Society’s Iowa City research facility — and order the state to return materials already removed — now are seeking a “special master” to protect the “uniquely sensitive and irreplaceable” collections.
At the end of the year, Merrill will step down as IWP director and focus on writing and teaching as a member of the English Department faculty. Cate Dicharry, former executive associate director of operations for IWP, will take over in January.
A U.S. attorney is asking a federal court to pause proceedings in a lawsuit four University of Iowa international students filed against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security — in part — because of the government shutdown and frozen funds.
For the last 12 years of world-bending events worthy of both critical analysis and comedic reprieve in an ever-shifting media landscape of streaming, strikes, and corporate mergers, University of Iowa alum Eric Leiderman has had a front row seat as producer for the news and political satire talk show “Late Night With Seth Meyers.”
Grant Wood catalogue raisonné at University of Iowa creating database of all the ‘American Gothic’ painters artwork.
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