On the wings of an ongoing pilot and aviation staffing shortage threatening airlines, aircraft, and the flights they schedule, Coe College is stepping into the flight school fray in collaboration with The Eastern Iowa Airport.
The Education Department announced the latest round of cancellation on Wednesday, saying it will erase $7.7 billion in federal student loans. With the latest action, the administration said it has canceled $167 billion in student debt for nearly 5 million Americans through several programs.
Earlier this month, the Rachel Graber and Lacey Kruse found themselves again in lockstep — crossing a commencement stage for Kirkwood’s pinning ceremony. Among the 63 spring nursing grads, Graber and Kruse were the first mother-daughter duo in recent history.
Iowa residents attending Kirkwood Community College in the upcoming fall will pay $7 more per credit hour than those enrolled in the 2023-2024 academic year -- bringing the rate to $217 per credit hour, according to a proposal the Board of Trustees approved this month.
In the face of objections from MercyOne — the Des Moines area health care system that for six years provided management over a troubled Mercy Iowa City — a federal judge is leaning toward approving a long-negotiated liquidation plan for the now-bankrupt community hospital that exposes MercyOne to liability and lawsuits.
The Decorah-based private university announced in a news release Friday that an anonymous person’s donation is the second-largest planned gift to Luther College. More than $33 million has been committed to the college this fiscal year, topping the previous record of $26.1 million set in 2005-06.
The same day Iowa’s Board of Regents this month had its first consideration of across-the-board tuition increases for next fall, it also approved the public universities’ largest collective residence hall rate hikes in more than a decade — citing inflation, staffing struggles and years of meager rate bumps as the impetus.
About a year after announcing intentions to shutter and sell its “last-chosen and first-transferred-from” Mayflower Residence Hall, the University of Iowa has taken it off the market — citing “immense interest from returning and prospective students” to live on campus.
Drake President Marty Martin called the gift a “monumental moment for the institution.” Officials announced the gift at a news conference Tuesday.
One week after a large California investment firm bought ACT Inc. – morphing the longtime Iowa City-based nonprofit testing company into a for-profit enterprise – a separate nonprofit organization the new ACT conglomerate promised to maintain retained the Iowa City campus and now is selling it.
Long before Harold Bradley Jr. was a Hawkeye football star, U.S. marine, NFL player, civil rights activist, teacher, husband, father, and internationally-esteemed artist, producer, actor and musician, he was born on Oct. 13, 1929 in Chicago – just days before the stock market crash that snowballed into the Great Depression.
Thousands pick up degrees this week at universities and colleges
“When we came together, it was really a conversation to say – are there ways, given our size, that we could be more agile, more responsive to the needs of our community partners, and build out a series of opportunities that we think improve access and affordability for students going forward?”
A week after a Story County judge denied Iowa State University’s request the court dismiss a lawsuit from the family of a student who died three years ago in a crew club accident, the parties have agreed to settle the case — negating the need for a trial.
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