Iowa’s public universities last year used a waiver process to bypass open searches — designed to attract a diverse pool of qualified candidates and ensure all applicants have an equal opportunity to compete for open positions — in more than 150 hires, most of which involved the University of Iowa.
Decisions made at state legislative level prohibit school boards from making local decisions they feel are best for their school districts and encouraging increasingly polarizing views from citizens
Over the most recent decade on record, only 28 percent of NASA’s “competed missions” had female principal investigators — a primary and substantial position — and NASA over that time didn’t fund any female PI-led mission proposals in two of their four divisions: astrophysics and earth science.
A former University of Iowa provost who resigned under a cloud of suspicion after just one year – hinting on her way out that she wanted to serve a campus aligned with her diversity, equity, and inclusion values – is being accused in a lawsuit of taking that social justice mission too far in her new job.
Garfield Elementary is set to close by fall of 2024, and the student population will be combined with Arthur Elementary in a newly built school.
Professional learning opportunity provided by Cedar Rapids Public Library training teachers on 3-D printing, green screen technology
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Like more than a dozen museums working to return to Nigeria objects and artifacts stolen in the 1800s, the University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art has arranged an audience with the Oba of Benin this fall in hopes of repatriating two pieces “to their rightful owners as swiftly as possible.”
2 of 3 judges on the panel said the injunction is moot because COVID-19 transmission rates have lowered
Gov. Kim Reynolds distributed a flier in Marion to promote private school scholarships. The Fact Checker is looking at claims about education spending and academic performance in other states that have implemented private school scholarships.
The school’s film club writes, acts, directs and edits film as a part of after school program
Two years after Iowa’s three public universities made the unprecedented and heart-wrenching pandemic-propelled decision to nix in-person spring commencement ceremonies – a historic rite of passage – all three are resurrecting them this weekend.
Since the start of this spring semester, Iowa State’s name-removal committee has met 15 times about the request to remove Catt’s name from Catt Hall – interviewing experts and hearing from Maryland-based History Associates Inc., which provided the committee with 200-plus historical documents.
IOWA PROFILE: Christine Boge’s gift will help close opportunity gaps and provide supports to students in need. The $1 million gift is the largest donation in the foundation’s 40-year history.
Four equity coaches -- a new position in the district -- are working with administrators to create more inclusive spaces that produce more equitable outcomes and experiences for students and staff
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