The first meeting of a new Legislature-imposed University of Iowa Center for Intellectual Freedom advisory council has been set for next week, on Tuesday, over Zoom — meaning the half who live outside Iowa won’t need to travel to the state.
Given incoming Iowa State University President David Cook won’t begin his tenure until March 1, 2026, the Board of Regents this week will name recently retired College of Business Dean David Spalding to serve as interim president for three months.
The news — garnering broad applause from a packed crowd in the union — doubled as a welcome home for Cook, who was born in Mary Greeley Medical Center, graduated from Ames High, and earned a bachelor’s degree from Iowa State in 1992.
The University of Iowa’s Tippie College of Business is recognizing Cedar Rapids-based Van Meter Inc., and its CEO, Lura McBride, with its Oscar C. Schmidt Iowa Business Leadership Award. McBride will receive the award Tuesday on behalf of Van Meter’s employee owners.
A Johnson County judge has dismissed the case against a man accused of interfering with police who were investigating allegations of hazing at a University of Iowa fraternity a year ago on Nov. 15, 2024.
An aggravated assault last year was among 13 reported “hate crimes” on the UI campus in 2024 -- a spike from just one in 2023 and six in 2022, according to a new UI 2025 Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act and Fire Safety report being presented to the Board of Regents this week.
Although Chuck Grassley has filed paperwork to run for his eighth re-election to the U.S. Senate in 2028 – when he’ll be 95, pushing him over 100 by the end of the term should he win – UNI is preparing to receive his Senate papers once he finally retires.
More than 54,000 Iowa high school students are jointly enrolled in community college credit coursework, a number that’s been steadily climbing for the last decade.
For the fourth straight year, University of Iowa Athletics in 2025 set a new revenue record of $153.2 million — while athletics revenue at Iowa State University and University of Northern Iowa declined, leaving UNI with a nearly $3 million deficit.
Ames native and Iowa State University graduate David Cook — the second finalist to succeed outgoing ISU President Wendy Wintersteen — on Thursday told a campus crowd during a public forum that he wasn’t looking to leave his post as president of North Dakota State University.
In taking questions from the campus-based audience Wednesday during a public forum, Iowa State University presidential finalist Benjamin Houlton fielded one referencing the recent firing of an ISU employee for comments she posted on social media about Charlie Kirk’s killing.
Proposed bylaws for the University of Iowa’s new legislature-mandated Center for Intellectual Freedom require its 26-member advisory council to meet at least once a semester — plus any special meetings the chair or executive committee call.
The second of two finalists to succeed Iowa State University President Wendy Wintersteen has been identified as David Cook, an Ames native and Iowa State alum who’s been serving as the 15th president of North Dakota State University since 2022.
Two months after delaying the timeline of its new $2 billion inpatient tower, citing federal health care-related funding cuts, University of Iowa Health Care next week will ask the Board of Regents to approve $45.5 million in facilities upgrades across its three inpatient hospital campuses.
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