A University of Northern Iowa professor is suing the university, alleging administrators waged a coordinated campaign to falsely “frame” her for disability discrimination while subjecting her to gender-based discrimination.
A U.S. attorney is asking a federal court to pause proceedings in a lawsuit four University of Iowa international students filed against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security — in part — because of the government shutdown and frozen funds.
For the last 12 years of world-bending events worthy of both critical analysis and comedic reprieve in an ever-shifting media landscape of streaming, strikes, and corporate mergers, University of Iowa alum Eric Leiderman has had a front row seat as producer for the news and political satire talk show “Late Night With Seth Meyers.”
None of the nine campuses the Trump administration has asked to sign a “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” have done so, but two conservative lawmakers in Iowa are urging the Board of Regents to be the first.
University of Iowa Health Care administrators say they’re “evaluating our badge naming practices based on employee feedback and evolving industry standards” after 500-plus nurses and staff covered their last names with union stickers in protest.
In reframing its separation from one paramedic in 2024, the University of Iowa has agreed to a settlement changing his termination to a “voluntary resignation” after an administrative law judge found the employee did not “willfully or wantonly” disregard UI standards of behavior.
The longtime executive assistant to Iowa State University’s president has signed a settlement agreeing not to sue and to retire by March in exchange for compensation recognizing her “years of commitment and service to the university.”
A year after the University of Northern Iowa established its new Center for Civic Education in response to directives from the Board of Regents and lawmakers, the center this week landed a $1.22 million American History and Civics Education-Seminars grant from the U.S. Department of Education.
Conservative Iowa regent David Barker on Tuesday was confirmed to his presidential appointment as assistant secretary for postsecondary education -- although Barker said he can’t be sworn in until the “Schumer shutdown” ends.
The state has agreed to pay a Le Claire mother $50,000 to settle her 2022 lawsuit accusing University of Iowa Health Care providers of perforating her bowel and charring her rectum during a 2020 cervical cancer surgery — leaving her permanently impaired and limiting her ability to parent her two sons.
The search committee tasked with identifying finalists to lead Iowa State University as its next president met in closed session Monday and after several hours of discussion narrowed down a pool of 78 applicants to eight semi-finalists.
Brad Chamberlain, a former provost and professor at Luther College since 2001, is the first Luther president in more than 100 years to be chosen from within the institution.
“That would be a really cool discovery by itself,” University of Iowa planetary geologist Valerie Payre said. “That would mean we might not be alone in the solar system or even the universe.”
The state of Iowa has both a need and an opportunity to start offering four-year bachelor’s degrees across its 15 community colleges — like those offered on its public and private college and university campuses, according to a final investigative report that lawmakers commissioned over the summer.
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