As the University of Iowa reshapes its west campus to accommodate a massive new $1 billion inpatient tower, $249 million Health Sciences Academic Building, and other renovation and expansion projects across its health care and athletic operations — administrators are eyeing not one, but now two new parking ramps.
For just the sixth time in Kirkwood Community College history, the 58-year-old campus on Wednesday inaugurated a new president -- and Kristie Fisher, who officially started her tenure Oct. 30, did not want all the pomp and circumstance of a ceremony.
The University of Iowa is looking to lease 65,760 square feet of warehouse, office, and support space on ACT Inc.’s former Iowa City campus for use by UI Health Care’s pharmacy services group.
In an effort to save money and better allocate resources, the University of Iowa is planning to close several off-campus centers — including the Tippie College of Business Cedar Rapids Learning Center on Second Avenue SE.
University of Northern Iowa’s Patricia A. Tomson Center for Violence Prevention -- which for more than a decade has been working to address violence through education, training, engagement and collaboration -- on March 7 will host a free screening of the documentary, “This is Where I Learned Not to Sleep.”
Survey asks respondents if they feel comfortable expressing their opinions on and off campus and on social media; if they seek out and listen to people with differing views; if they feel other university faculty and staff do; and if they feel the university provides an environment for free speech.
Beginning in the 2024-25 academic year, Cedar Rapids-based Coe will debut a new Bachelor of Science in Engineering degree — offered through its Physics Department as an “engineering physics” major.
None of the 380 high schools in Iowa are reporting any “completed” FAFSA applications this year simply because they can’t, thanks to rampant delays and what some have called a “smorgasbord of errors” and glitches.
“I don’t understand what the beef industry’s worried about, because I don’t know anybody who wants to grill soy burger when they have people over,” Sen. Bill Dotzler, D-Waterloo said. “Iowans and people across this country love beef. Why are you worried?”
The University of Iowa will keep housing students in its 56-year-old Mayflower Residence Hall — at least for one more year — despite having announced a year ago plans to sell the “last-chosen and first-transferred-from residence hall.”
To kick off its 114-year-old Drake Relays on April 21, the university is holding its 45th annual “beautiful bulldog contest” -- with the winning glowering canine earning a year-long rein as the Drake Relays mascot.
Exemplifying the position’s charge to represent the “diversity of the people and poetry of Iowa,” University of Northern Iowa English Professor Vince Gotera has been named the state’s fifth poet laureate.
A House education subcommittee Monday voted along party lines to advance a proposal that would bring meaningful change to the Board of Regents, the universities they oversee, and the students those institutions serve – including through tuition-hike caps and DEI-related “directives.”
Data has the power to heal, unite, and inspire — or destroy, divide, and devastate — and which of those outcomes materializes depends on the people using the data and their understanding of the people it represents, according to former and first-ever
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