Nearly a year after crews began work on the first new road on the University of Iowa campus in more than a decade — pouring pavement and removing 126 trees to make space for the 1,500-foot artery — a roundabout portion of the project is complete and began welcoming traffic Wednesday morning.
Upending a Polk County District Court ruling and reinforcing precedent for wage discrimination cases in Iowa, the state Supreme Court has found a former and long-time Iowa State University professor could recover damages going back more than a decade for being paid less than her male colleagues.
Several Iowa community colleges, after reviewing their diversity, equity and inclusion activities to come in line with recommendations from Community Colleges for Iowa, have concluded that they were already on the right track in their mission of supporting all students.
Robert Cargill adds ancient history expertise to History Channel shows, documentaries and YouTube channel
The number of Eastern Iowans needing or wanting emergency care has soared over the last two decades – as has the severity of the health issues patients are facing – cramping ERs, crowding wait rooms, and compelling hospitals to expand, renovate, and build.
Over the years, the concert’s proximity to the holidays snowballed into a full-on holiday theme – outfitting Yeats as the conductor in a Santa suit and inspiring UI School of Music students to come up with more and more tuba arrangements of the seasonal classics, from “Sleigh Ride” and “Silent Night” to “Frosty the Snowman” and “Grandma got run over by a reindeer.”
Despite fears of another cycle plagued with delays or other issues, financial aid experts are saying that the start of the new federal student aid filing period has gone smoothly, taking a weight off their and families’ shoulders.
Iowa’s public universities maintained, or even increased, their first-year undergraduate counts this fall – bucking a national trend of deep losses in 18-year-old freshmen, according to special analysis of that group recently released by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.
Having two Rhodes scholars in a single year is a feat for any state, given the program’s U.S. allotment is 32 annually and Ivy League campuses typically snag many -- including 10 in the 2025 crop of scholars.
Although increasing enrollment by offering free or nearly free tuition might seem like a risky economic move, private colleges and universities in Iowa say they’re confident expanding financial aid offerings to more students will help grow both enrollment and revenue.
Hawkeye Athletics hasn’t made much of a dent in paying back the $50 million it borrowed from the main University of Iowa campus during the height of COVID, leaving $47.6 million outstanding on the 2021 loan – even as contributions from the Big Ten Athletics Conference have continued to climb.
“We never had health concerns for her. And then you get that information that she has cancer. And life will never be the same. And you wake up every day thinking that was a nightmare.”
“I was trying not to cry. Her dad was trying not to freak out,” mom Ashley Huebner said. “I’m like, I can’t let her see that I’m upset. So they took the bed out of the room, I walked with her down the hall, and the next thing I know the doors were there. And then they took her.”
Just months ahead of opening its new $525.6 million hospital in North Liberty, University of Iowa Health Care is ramping up hiring for the 469,000-square-foot campus — promoting “innovative opportunities” across a range of disciplines in the new state-of-the-art facility.
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