The coming spring semester likely will be the last for Kirkwood Community College’s Iowa City campus – at least in its current form – after a recent study of the site found the institution would have to spend nearly $40 million over the next 24 years to maintain the campus that’s seen a 75-percent enrollment drop in the last five years.
For schools, increased ransomware attacks bring steep insurance costs, rigorous requirements to qualify for insurance and, in some cases, disruptions in education.
Bisgard, 54, said “it felt like the right time” for him to retire. He’s leaving two years before his current contract is up. According to separation terms approved by the school board, he’ll be paid $35,000 over two years, with no benefits.
The new dance group has become a place of belonging for “students who feel like they need a home,” says the volunteer coach, a recent graduate of the Cedar Rapids school.
The Hawkeye and Cyclone football teams over the last five years have spent a combined $2.2 million housing players, coaches, and staff in hotels the night before home games to “minimize distractions” and help them prepare with better security, nutrition, and privacy.
University of Iowa researchers – among their many discoveries – have created new disaster response models, artificial intelligence diagnostic tools, telemedicine tactics, and COVID-response measures. This week, Gov. Kim Reynolds awarded UI $8.2 million to keep expanding the bioscience research and economic development opportunities it generates.
KinderCare, a national child care provider, has bought the Cedar Rapids and Hiawatha day schools. The national child care provider already operates two child care centers in Cedar Rapids.
The board voted 6-1 Monday to adopt the new map. Director Dexter Merschbrock opposed the map, asking board members to consider allowing only people who live in each district to vote for that district’s representative.
After the University of Iowa’s chosen finalist in October declined an offer to succeed Brooks Jackson as vice president for medical affairs of UI Health Care and dean of its Carver College of Medicine, the campus is relaunching its search for a new head of its sprawling health care enterprise.
A $1.2 billion deal the University of Iowa cemented in March 2020 for the private operation of its utilities system over the next 50 years amounts to the “largest financial obligation ever held by Iowa taxpayers,” State Auditor Rob Sand found in his four-year review of the blockbuster agreement.
The county supervisors included $1 million for Kirkwood tuition assistance in the latest round of ARPA allocations this fall
The State of Iowa on Monday agreed to pay $2 million to settle a “wrongful death” claim with the family of an Iowa State University student who died last year in a Crew Club accident after the group “failed to follow critical health and safety procedures.”
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