A former University of Northern Iowa student faces charges of threatening a dean and her husband and threatening to shoot a university staff member.
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A former University of Northern Iowa student faces charges of threatening a dean and her husband and threatening to shoot a university staff member.
Mélisse Brunet’s lawsuit, filed in Polk County District Court, alleges gender-based discrimination, sexual harassment, retaliation, and unequal pay violations of the Iowa Civil Rights Act.
With a September 2024 trial date looming and both sides sparring over discovery, the Story County District Court in January abruptly dismissed an Iowa State University graduate student’s 2022 lawsuit accusing the school, a fellow student, and two professors of sexual harassment, fostering a hostile work environment, gender discrimination, and retaliation.
Overall, fewer students enrolled in credit-earning courses across Iowa’s 15 community colleges in the full 2023 academic year – even as more students than ever before jointly enrolled in one or more courses while still in high school.
Democrats’ proposal would freeze tuition, while Republicans would cap tuition increases for undergrads
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The University of Iowa has agreed to pay a Johnson County family $2 million to settle a lawsuit involving accusations of negligence in the 2009 delivery of their son, who “showed signs immediately of injury to his right arm” and has failed to regain full mobility.
Lawmakers have proposed a bill that would expand the nine-member Board of Regents to include two “non-voting” members of the Legislature. It also would cap tuition rates across the public universities at 3 percent for undergraduate students.
Responding to 10 diversity, equity, and inclusion-related recommendations Iowa’s Board of Regents issued in November, Iowa State University has disseminated a directive barring anyone on campus from making students, employees, applicants, or visitors “disclose their pronouns.”
Born a slave on a Missouri plantation more than 160 years ago to a mother owned by Moses Carver, George Washington Carver was orphaned during the Civil War and freed with the abolition of slavery in 1865.
More than two years after launching a 24/7 crisis and support line for University of Iowa students, the campus in January expanded that phone, text, and online chat service to faculty, staff, and postdocs – as part of an ongoing UI effort to “prioritize the mental health and well-being of employees.”
As part of the University of Iowa’s takeover of Mercy Iowa City – which became official Wednesday and continued UI Health Care’s accelerating expansion statewide – it’s assuming more than 1,000 of Mercy’s contracts, costing $3.4 million to “cure” amounts the former community hospital owed under those agreements.
The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigations this week released the names of eight additional student-athletes and former student-athletes charged last year as part of a sports betting investigation.
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