Education

Three years after $20 million in federal pandemic aid allowed the University of Iowa in 2021 to open a new “Center for School Mental Health” -- and two years after receiving a $15 million donation to keep it going -- the center is expanding to reach more school-aged kids and moving to a “fee-for-services model.”

Also, Clear Creek Amana is considering a new policy that would prohibit the use of personal electronic devices -- which includes cell phones, headphones and other Bluetooth devices -- by students during instructional time.

In his 14th year at the University of Iowa — where he earned his doctorate in religious studies and has been a visiting professor since, focused on American religion and its intersection with popular culture — Dean has become an expert in “reading cemeteries,” even leading a pre-Halloween cemetery walk through Oakland for the last two years.

Linn-Mar, Iowa City districts opt to not hold classes Tuesday.

The folk rock duo Indigo Girls have canceled their Friday show on the the University of Northern Iowa campus due to an undisclosed illness, according to UNI’s Gallagher Bluedorn, which is working with the band to reschedule.

Prairie, the school with ‘a strong swimming tradition but no pool,’ will finally have a home.

Ninety years after the University of Iowa opened its 53,000-square-foot Art Building along the Iowa River in 1936 -- hosting renowned artist and educator Grant Wood until his death in 1942 -- the campus is eyeing a long-awaited modernization of the vacant building, which has been unoccupied since the 2008 flood.

Nearly three years after airing plans to buy the entire 375,000-square-foot Old Capitol Town Center — which opened in 1981 as a downtown mall — the University of Iowa is seeking Board of Regents approval to spend $20.6 million to make it happen.