Education

Before COVID curbed enrollment in 2020 — hitting the University of Northern Iowa especially hard with a nearly 10 percent drop in total students and 20 percent drop in its graduate and professional count — the last time UNI reported a grad school cohort under 1,300 was 1993.

Directors named in areas of faith, curriculum, early childhood, enrollment and finances of the new Catholic School System

Hills Elementary’s large Latino population mourns potential loss of a school where their culture is actively celebrated.

It was the latest legislative attempt by Republican state lawmakers to follow through on Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds’ proposal to overhaul AEA operations and funding, a pitch she made in January during her Condition of the State address to the Iowa Legislature.

Three months after hiring a leader for its complex integration with Mercy Iowa City, University of Iowa Health Care this week announced she has accepted another job and will be leaving in May -- compelling UIHC to initiate a search for a permanent chief administrator of its new downtown campus.

The University of Iowa chapter of conservative student group Young Americans for Freedom next week will welcome to campus the former teammate of transgender NCAA Division I national champion swimmer Lia Thomas for a talk titled, “Men do not belong in women’s sports.”

$70,000 available this year to students who have benefited from Tanager services to pursue their future education goals

With the higher education landscape still challenging small private colleges and universities regionally and nationally, Iowa lawmakers this session proposed a measure to make sure the state has more involvement, interaction, and information about any future closures like Wesleyan’s.