The Cornell College Peter Paul Luce Gallery will present “Edens and End Times” by Twin Cities-based painter and Cornell alum James Ostrander from Aug. 29 to Oct. 12.
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In its 34th year, the Iowa City Jazz Festival continues to draw acclaimed performers from across the country.
Nearly 90 Jewish faculty, staff, students, and alumni across Iowa’s higher education landscape have issued a collective statement condemning threats to and attacks on their college and university campuses “in the name of the Jewish community.”
Author Marjorie Medary graduated from Cornell College in Mount Vernon in 1912.
The chair of Cornell College’s Philosophy Department is suing her institution, its provost Ilene Crawford, its former Dean of Students Jackie Wilson, and a professor who she said obsessively and persistently sexually harassed her.
Internal and external forces affecting higher education — from disruptions like COVID to evolving workforce demands, student needs, demographics, and public perceptions — are evident in recent enrollment counts, which are down again this fall for many of Iowa’s private colleges and universities.
Although Cornell College raised its tuition this year to $51,970, none of its students pay the full sticker price – and Cornell is making its generous financial aid practices more clear through a new “Tuition Zero” initiative.
On a typical day, Cornell College’s cafeteria is stocked with meals that are 20 to 30 percent locally sourced. But Tuesday, all the food served to Cornell students — breakfast, lunch and dinner — came from within 150 miles of the Mount Vernon campus.
One of four Cornell College instructors stabbed Monday in the northeast Chinese city of Jilin, where they were teaching, is on his way home.
An Associated Press photographer captured a moment between two Iowa natives — 103-year-old Fred Taylor, who commanded a P51 Mustang during World War II, and 19-year-old Sawyer Slezak, a 2023 Prairie High School graduate and cadet third class at the U.S. Air Force Academy — when the two of them were in France last week to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day.
The instructors — including a brother of Rep. Adam Zabner, D-Iowa City — were with a faculty member of the partner institution when the attack occurred, according to Cornell, which has been in contact with the instructors and is helping them.
Having already admitted students for the next academic year, UnityPoint Health-St. Luke’s Hospital about a month ago surprised current and incoming students by announcing plans to close its 73-year-old Medical Laboratory Scientist program.
None of the 380 high schools in Iowa are reporting any “completed” FAFSA applications this year simply because they can’t, thanks to rampant delays and what some have called a “smorgasbord of errors” and glitches.
Photographer cited after climbing Mount Vernon water tower in 1983 to take pictures
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