Three days after asking a judge to get involved in the delayed distribution of Mercy Iowa City’s liquidated assets -- accusing the bankrupt hospital’s management team of poor communication and miscalculation in stalling payments -- Mercy’s bondholders last week finally got back some of the long-sought $62.8 million they’re owed.
The positions were created by the new, Republican-approved Iowa law that overhauled the operations and funding of the state’s nine Area Education Agencies
Making official a likely union Mount Mercy and St. Ambrose universities announced earlier this year in the face of financial headwinds sweeping across higher education, presidents of the two Eastern Iowa Catholic campuses Thursday signed a formal agreement to combine their institutions.
Nearly two months after a bankruptcy judge confirmed a liquidation plan for the former Mercy Iowa City’s tens of millions in assets, and more than a month after that plan went into effect, secured bondholders “have yet to receive a single ‘effective date’ distribution.”
Although Iowa — as America’s top hog producer — generated $10.9 billion in cash receipts in 2022, it could have made more if not for the persistence of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome, according to new Iowa State University research.
Catherine McAuley Center increasing focus on families
An Anamosa Middle School gym teacher resigned last week after being charged with sexual exploitation of a 15-year-old student in 2014. The district’s superintendent said his resignation was accepted by the board Monday.
The University of Iowa has agreed to pay a federally-funded researcher and cardiologist with tenure $350,000 to resign -- relinquishing his tenure rights and suspending “any internal proceedings” involving him.
Speakers at free, two-hour conference in Williamsburg in August include dyslexia experts, director of the Iowa Reading Research Center
On July 22, ISU officially closed its DEI office, university spokeswoman Angie Hunt said. The closure cut five positions, although only two of those posts were filled at the time.
Cedar Rapids, Iowa City libraries budget for the cost of digital material that is often far more expensive than print
A year after a swell of top medical schools boycotted the U.S. News & World Report rankings for their reliance on reputation and other potentially-biased metrics, the publication has re-calibrated its process and released new grouping-style med school standings -- putting the University of Iowa in a second tier of four.
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