Education

Adding to its more than 50 civil rights complaints in recent years accusing colleges, universities, and other academic institutions of race- and sex-based discrimination, the anti-affirmative action Equal Protection Project on Monday filed a federal complaint against the University of Northern Iowa.

The University of Northern Iowa has signed settlement agreements with five assistant professors promising them tenure and back pay after they filed grievances based on the institution’s initial denial of their promotion applications.

Fully funding 4-year-old preschool, policies that help schools recruit and retain staff and better mental health services all are priorities.

Ahead of its public universities’ charge to draft strategic plan updates by February, Iowa’s Board of Regents next week will consider an update to its own five-year plan that eliminates references to diversity and inclusion.

Iowa’s Board of Regents, governing the state’s three public universities, has been understaffed for seven months spanning five meetings – with its student-regent seat sitting unfilled for the longest stretch since the Legislature in 1988 passed a law requiring a student fill one of the nine spots.

UNI will welcome its 150th class next fall, leading the way to commemorating the school’s opening on Sept. 6, 1876.

Panorama Middle School students see lasting impact of their efforts

The Windstar Lines charter bus carrying the Cyclone Marching Band home from Iowa State University’s Pop-Tarts Bowl victory in Orlando was involved in an accident -- leaving some band members with “bumps, bruises, and cuts.”