Education

The services, offered through the Iowa Department of Management, are not a response recent cybersecurity breaches in the Cedar Rapids and Linn-Mar school districts.

Marking its highest requested state funding increase in nearly a decade, Iowa’s Board of Regents is seeking $34.7 million more in education appropriations from the Legislature for the next budget year – due, in part, to soaring inflation.

Pruning away dried up programs, degrees, and academic centers while reframing, reformatting, or fashioning anew majors and curricular opportunities meeting student and employer demands is becoming increasingly imperative for institutions vying to attract and retain students from a shrinking pool of applicants.

The summer Freedom School program for kids is being expanded to help students continue to achieve higher academically

The often congested University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics emergency room is getting a much-needed $24.6 million expansion over the next two years – enabling progress toward the big-ticket items on UI Health Care’s 10-year master plan, including a new inpatient tower, ambulatory care center, and research facility.

Agriculture students at the school are growing pumpkins -- available mid-September -- as a fundraiser for the program, which is entering its third year.

The national child care provider takes staffing concerns off school districts and provides extended hours of care before and after school to working families.

Iowa State University is hoping to figure out one large piece of solving the state’s affordable housing issue with 3D printing