Fewer international students have been enrolling in Iowa’s public universities for years – even before COVID-19 locked down travel and crippled the campus’ global reach – and lawmakers on Monday probed the Board of Regents for an answer to why.
Iowa community colleges are seeing a rebound in enrollment numbers since the pandemic with a growing number of high schoolers earning college credits through joint enrollment program.
Meals were made free for all students during the pandemic. Since all meals became free, schools have seen an increase in the number of students taking school meals, which includes fruits and vegetables, milk and whole grains.
Deadline nears for the college, apprenticeship scholarships for young people who used services at Tanager Place
“Everyone should be properly vetted to make sure they’re no threat to our national security,” the Republican senator said. “For the emergency we’re in, what’s happening now in Ukraine, I think we have a situation where for humanitarian purposes we have to be helpful.”
The free, six-week Freedom School program is being offered this summer to 60 students going into sixth, seventh and eighth grades.
Twenty-one members of the University of Iowa Health Care community, UI administration, or Board of Regents have been appointed to a committee tasked with finding the campus’ next vice president for medical affairs and dean of its Carver College of Medicine.
Four of five University of Iowa undergraduates feel they belong on campus, but percentages drop among minority students — with a quarter of multiracial, Asian, and underrepresented undergrads, and 40 percent of transgender or gender-nonconforming students, saying they don’t feel a sense of belonging
Six years after joining Coe College as provost, Pauline O’Loughlin – also serving as interim dean of students, Title IX coordinator, and collaborator on diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts -- is leaving to become provost for another private campus.
Less than six months after dropping the mascot “Mohawks,” the Mason City School Board has approved a student-led suggestion for the district's new mascot: the River Hawks.
Instead of granting the Board of Regents’ ask for an additional $15 million in general education appropriations for the 2023 budget year – bringing the state’s total regents higher-ed allocation to $501 million – the House has suggested keeping gen-ed funding flat while putting $12 million into a new “Iowa Workforce Grant and Incentive Program.”
Cedar Rapids group raises money for Waypoint Services, a nonprofit that offers housing services, domestic violence victims services and childcare.
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