After years of declining or stagnant enrollment, aggravated by the 2020 pandemic, Kirkwood Community College is reporting a summer rebound and encouraging signs for a strong fall showing.
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After years of declining or stagnant enrollment, aggravated by the 2020 pandemic, Kirkwood Community College is reporting a summer rebound and encouraging signs for a strong fall showing.
Having spent nearly 40 years of his professional career serving Kirkwood Community College as a coordinator, director, dean, and recruiter, Doug Bannon is adding another title to his Kirkwood resume after being appointed Tuesday to replace retiring chair Jim Mollenhauer on the board of trustees.
The Domestic Violence Intervention Program on Wednesday announced it has hired as its new program director for sexual assault services Shell Feijo, an author, instructor, and trained victims advocate who is listed as an adjunct faculty member with UI, where she earned a doctorate of interdisciplinary studies — specifically race, class and gender.
University of Iowa experts say their research suggests state cursive standards could be a good thing — to the extent that a focus on cursive gets kids focused on handwriting.
Propelled by high-impact research — including one project targeting extreme wind events, like the storm that blasted Iowa on Monday — Iowa State University on Tuesday announced a third straight year of record research funding that for the second straight year topped $300 million.
In a hypercompetitive higher education landscape — where colleges and universities are vying not just for top students but the best and brightest faculty and staff — Iowa State University has entered a new partnership with employment-centered social media platform LinkedIn aimed at making it “an employer of choice regionally and across the world.”
A year before the University of Iowa plans to start an $18 million expansion and modernization of its 51-year-old Cambus Maintenance Facility -- in part, to make space for 12 future electric vehicles -- the campus on Thursday announced it has landed a $16.4 million federal grant to help UI advance those transit plans.
Adding to turnover atop the University of Iowa’s 12 colleges is Kevin Washburn, who’s leaving his post as dean of the College of Law in December after six years on campus.
After seeing big declines in alcohol-related driving deaths in the 1990s, progress nationally has stalled — compelling University of Iowa researchers to study whether a growing breadth of automotive technology could again move the needle.
After taking over Iowa City’s 150-year-old Mercy Hospital and its handful of clinics in January with a $28 million bid in a contentious bankruptcy auction, the University of Iowa has sold the Mercy clinic in Kalona that it obtained through the process to Washington County Hospital and Clinics for $425,000.
Nearly three years after longtime University of Iowa Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center Director George Weiner announced plans to step down, the health care enterprise has announced his permanent replacement in Mark Burkard.
The University of Iowa Police Department has added decals featuring 988, the national suicide and crisis lifeline number, to all its squad cars and Nite Ride vehicles.
Cities around Iowa turn to UNI’s Public Art Incubator for assistance with their public art collections, offering students hands-on experience as they “contribute to their communities in a real way.” Students restored two Cedar Rapids sculptures through the program this summer.
Now in training mode, Olivia Chambers is feeling excited as one of 21 women and 33 total athletes chosen for the Paralympic swim team. She also becomes the first UNI swimmer in school history named to a U.S. Paralympic team and joins an elite list of Panther athletes to qualify for either the Olympic or Paralympic Games.
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