Education

COVID-19 altered how faculty members across Iowa’s public universities spent their work days in the last academic year – draining hours spent in a classroom and decreasing time on research and scholarship while spiking virtual instruction and online grading and preparation.

Remodeled classrooms for the industrial technology program, Family and Consumer Science, agriculture and business in the main building and a multipurpose building with a full-size gym will be completed by summer 2022.

The Department of Justice is conducting on-site visits this week of 10 Cedar Rapids schools as a part of an on ongoing review of the district’s policies, procedures and practices relating to the use of physical restraint and seclusion.

The state on Monday agreed to pay from its general fund nearly $400,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by University of Iowa female athletes contending Title IX violations in the UI’s announced plans last year to cut women’s swimming and diving as part of its COVID-19 response.

The University of Iowa has identified 77 more damaged or at-risk windows in its Stead Family Children’s Hospital that need an emergency “safety film” — costing another $771,516.

After much speculation on how COVID-19 would affect Iowa’s high-profile university athletic programs in the 2021 budget year — with deficit projections p

Academics, communication and the budget are the main priorities of Linn-Mar school board candidates

The University of Iowa is seeking permission to build a new $7 million to $9 million women’s gymnastics and spirit squad training center.