As it promised, University of Iowa Health Care is rewarding via one-time payout the more than 12,000 employees who it required over the last year to either forfeit raises, absorb pay cuts, shed earned vacation time, or take unpaid leave to ease UIHC budget woes in the throes of COVID-19.
Stepping into the University of Iowa presidency as her campus emerges from an historically tumultuous year that stressed the budget and prompted her predecessor to trim programs, eliminate sports, and
Athletics deficits that the University of Iowa and Iowa State University projected for the last pandemic-plagued season were not as steep as anticipated, according to new Board of Regents budget recaps showing Hawkeye income was $35.8 million above expectations.
Last month, the Cedar Rapids City Council approved a resolution authorizing a lease agreement with the College Community School District for a pedestrian tunnel to link the site of the school’s future ag building and the rest of Prairie’s campus.
With the full 2021 budget year now wrapped, University of Iowa Athletics has confirmed no contracted football coaches – including head coach Kirk Ferentz – participated in voluntary salary reductions announced a year ago in light of COVID-19 losses the department projected to be devastating and justifying of its decision to eliminate several Hawkeye sports and take a $50 million loan from the main campus.
Law struck down diversity plans that would allow district to deny transfers if that would affect the district’s diversity.
After nearly four years fighting certain religious student organizations on its campus over who can and can’t be leaders, the University of Iowa on Friday lost again in federal court – with a panel of U.S. appellate judges blasting the institution for viewpoint discrimination.
When interviewing, Caroline Stefanie Clay was told, “Should you get the position, you would be the first African American female — women of color — to have a full-time tenure track position within the 70-year history of the department.”
170 students are enrolled in College Community School District’s 12 day Flight School Summer School program.
Overnight Wednesday, the University of Iowa updated its Office of the President website to reflect its new leadership — presenting Barbara Wilson as its 22nd president. On Thursday, she officially took the helm, promising to usher in a “new era of excellence” for the Hawkeyes.
Instances of seclusion and restraint went from 1,400 during the 2018-2019 school year to 69 in 2020-2021, progress leaders attribute to a “culture shift.”
In partnership with the University of Georgia, a UI team recently published promising findings showing a single-dose inhaled COVID-19 vaccine fully protected mice against lethal infection and also blocked animal-to-animal transmission.
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