Articles Tagged: Cornell College

Cedar Rapids couple donate $4.5 million to educational programs

Like campuses nationwide thinking creatively about financial-aid offerings aimed at attracting, retaining and supporting more students in the face of higher education headwinds, Cornell College has unveiled a new “debt reduction pledge” to pay as much as half a student’s federal loan debt.

While many colleges and universities this fall welcomed back fewer students — given the upheaval from COVID-19 and its impact on higher education — Mount Vernon’s Cornell College saw total enrollment jump more than 50 students to 1,055 and its first-year class swell 30 percent to 404.

‘I have no illusions that we will ever go back to so-called normal’

Enrollment at Iowa’s public universities is down this summer after a pandemic-plagued fall and spring — dragging Iowa State’s numbers to their lowest level in at least a decade and resurrecting 90s-era University of Iowa summer counts.

One year ago, Coe College in Cedar Rapids announced it would start recognizing Juneteenth as a campus-wide holiday, a year before the federal government would take the step.

Expected date for completion is fall of 2022

Other campuses pivot under guidance to pause

Cornell received a double-double from sophomore Camille Marie-Lidd (Marion/Cedar Rapids Washington) and a career-high 17 points from freshman guard Caitlin …