Education

Two and a half years after Iowa State University began a review of its naming of Catt Hall after controversial women’s suffrage-leader Carrie Chapman Catt, a 17-member review committee last week cast an initial — but not unanimous — vote to keep the name on the central campus academic building.

Jon Galbraith oversees facility planning, construction projects as Cedar Rapids schools’ pursues multimillion dollar bond referendum

The Academy for Scholastic and Personal Success summer program for Black students in Cedar Rapids provides an education they can't find in a public school classroom.

Mirroring the energy-drink tide swelling across the country of late, a University of Iowa health assessment this year indicated undergraduate and graduate consumption of the caffeine-boosted beverages is surging — even past national averages, which also are on the rise.

Iowa State University’s campus cooling system was back up and running Friday morning after a Thursday fire at the campus power plant knocked out its cooling system — canceling classes, closing buildings, and sending many students packing just days into the start of the fall semester.

Having gone years without a property-value assessment – given its tax-exempt status as state owned – the University of Iowa’s for-sale Mayflower Residence Hall over the summer received an updated evaluation that, on a preliminary basis, valued it at $30.7 million.

A fire at Iowa State University’s power plant has disrupted the cooling system on campus, prompting the school to move classes online and encourage students living on campus to go home for the weekend.

And teachers prepare for goodbye on the last first day of school at Starry Elementary, a K-2 school in Marion.