COVID-19 altered how faculty members across Iowa’s public universities spent their work days in the last academic year – draining hours spent in a classroom and decreasing time on research and scholarship while spiking virtual instruction and online grading and preparation.
Remodeled classrooms for the industrial technology program, Family and Consumer Science, agriculture and business in the main building and a multipurpose building with a full-size gym will be completed by summer 2022.
The Department of Justice is conducting on-site visits this week of 10 Cedar Rapids schools as a part of an on ongoing review of the district’s policies, procedures and practices relating to the use of physical restraint and seclusion.
The state on Monday agreed to pay from its general fund nearly $400,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by University of Iowa female athletes contending Title IX violations in the UI’s announced plans last year to cut women’s swimming and diving as part of its COVID-19 response.
The ongoing enrollment losses Iowa’s public universities are experiencing mirror trends shaping the higher education landscape nationally – with the Board of Regent campuses since fall 2019 losing 7 percent of their total enrollment, compared with a 6.5 percent two-year drop at the national level.
University of Iowa Health Care is planning a $300 million bond sale to help finance its new $395 million hospital in North Liberty — but not until January, prompting the Board of Regents next week to consider action that would make proceeds from the debt sale retroactive.
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The University of Iowa has identified 77 more damaged or at-risk windows in its Stead Family Children’s Hospital that need an emergency “safety film” — costing another $771,516.
After much speculation on how COVID-19 would affect Iowa’s high-profile university athletic programs in the 2021 budget year — with deficit projections p
Academics, communication and the budget are the main priorities of Linn-Mar school board candidates
The University of Iowa is seeking permission to build a new $7 million to $9 million women’s gymnastics and spirit squad training center.
A report of sexual assault at the University of Iowa-based Phi Gamma Delta fraternity that spawned widespread protests across campus earlier this fall now is at the center of a lawsuit seeking enough money to “satisfactorily punish defendants and provide future deterrence to others.”
This is the first year of Linn-Mar High School’s project-based Venture Program after the district ended its five-year partnership with Iowa BIG last year. In ending the partnership, the district cited both the cost and its desire to make the program more available to its students by having it on-campus.
Iowa’s top research universities have continued their slide in the U.S. News & World Report’s new 2022 “Best Global Universities” ranking — a slope running parallel to international enrollment losses across Iowa and the nation.
The University of Iowa’s dining operation this fall is about 900 workers shy of being fully staffed — putting it at only 42 percent of its goal.
The Iowa City Area Business Partnership annual meeting will feature University of Iowa President Barbara Wilson. Register now!
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