Alsoin this week’s Government Notes, an Interstate 380 off-ramp at North Liberty will close this week.
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Alsoin this week’s Government Notes, an Interstate 380 off-ramp at North Liberty will close this week.
With Board of Regents permission to start work on the first of three phases for its more than $1.5 billion patient tower, University of Iowa Health Care is seeking an outside firm to audit in real time what is expected to be the largest construction project in state history.
Cornell College is the latest Iowa institution to take a stab at defanging its $54,776 tuition-and-fees tally by instituting a new “Save Your Seat” program, which this week proactively sent 19,357 prospective students “personalized financial aid estimates.”
The roundtable — held at the Cedar Rapids Ladd Library — was convened and led by State Auditor and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rob Sand. Educators covered topics ranging from education savings accounts and curriculum, to school funding and AEA changes.
After more than a decade leading University of Iowa Health Care’s orthopedics department from its basement dwellings on the main Iowa City campus, J. Lawrence “Larry” Marsh is stepping down as chair — just months after moving the department into a new 469,060-square-foot orthopedics hospital in North Liberty.
Echoing the CyTown multiuse development district that Iowa State University initiated five years ago, the University of Northern Iowa on Wednesday announced plans for a “Panther District.”
Nearly half of $15 million the University of Iowa has withdrawn for the upcoming budget year from a $1 billion P3-related endowment fund – created for and committed to supporting the UI strategic plan and its core teaching, research, and scholarship missions – will go toward faculty compensation and a $10 million renovation of its Performing Arts Annex.
A Covington Road bridge closes today for reconstruction and other government happenings in Linn and Johnson counties.
Some educators say tuition increases at Eastern Iowa private schools are possible because of Education Savings Accounts, taxpayer-funded financial assistance to attend a private K-12 school. But even with ESAs, families could be paying thousands out of pocket for tuition at a private school in Iowa.
“Call our legislators and tell them what a bad idea this is (from your own phone or using your own email),” UI Interim Vice President for Research Lois Geist wrote. “Being located where we are, we have limited ability to publicly fight this as faculty or as an institution.”
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Nearly a decade after an investigation into Iowa State University’s Flight Service incited a Board of Regents reprimand of former ISU President Steven Leath, auditors again have uncovered “unacceptable weaknesses” in the ISU Flight Service unit.
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