Education

The students learn ‘how to work,’ how to interview, work in a professional environment and financial literacy in the eight-week program

A year after Mercy Iowa City announced plans to exit its four-year affiliation with the statewide MercyOne health network and integrate into a larger health care system, the community hospital is pulling the plug on its search for a new partner and sticking with MercyOne.

Seventy percent of U.S. public schools have seen an increase in the number of students seeking school mental health services.

In its second year, the Leaders Believers Achievers Foundation’s summer program, CR Dreams, is teaching students to see their value, grow leadership skills and work toward achieving goals.

The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics this year ranked in the Top 50 nationally in two of 15 U.S. News & World Report-ranked specialties — its weakest showing in at least a decade, continuing a slide from nine ranked specialties in both 2012 and 2014.

Resident undergraduates headed to any of Iowa’s three public universities this fall will pay 4.25 percent more than students did last year after the Board of Regents on Wednesday unanimously approved tuition increases across their campuses.

The traditionally self-sustaining University of Iowa Athletics Department – a year after taking a $50 million loan from the main campus amid massive COVID-19 losses – has paid back $3 million to date, administrators told the Board of Regents on Wednesday.

Before Iowa’s Board of Regents on Wednesday gave the go-ahead for Iowa State University this fall to launch a new bachelor of science in climate science degree, regent Nancy Boettger warned administrators to keep “freedom of speech” in mind.