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.
A first peek at proposed tuition increases for Iowa’s public universities — made public Monday — indicates resident undergraduate students at the University of Iowa and Iowa State University could pay 3 percent more next fall, while University of Northern Iowa in-state undergrads could pay 2 percent more.
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