Instead of an originally-proposed $27.4 million major renovation of its 50-year-old Duane Banks Field – meant to “significantly improve the game-day experience” and add hundreds of seats for fans – the University of Iowa is paring down its baseball stadium upgrades, for now, “due to funding and cost concerns.”
ACT, Inc. — long known for its standardized tests before more recently pursuing a broader mission of research, education, and college and career readiness — this week announced a major collaboration with a large California investment firm, shifting the Iowa City-based ACT from a nonprofit to for-profit company.
The university has agreed to merge its 51-year-old Rape Victim Advocacy Program with the Iowa City-based Domestic Violence Intervention Program, which started after the UI’s Women’s Resource and Action Center in 1977 landed a grant to explore the issue of domestic violence in the community.
The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, the governing body for mostly small colleges, announced a policy Monday that all but bans transgender athletes from competing in women's sports.
“For over four hours, they were just completely fighting about me,” Jasmyn Jordan said. “Calling me a white supremacist, a Nazi, a bigot, a token, all that kind of stuff, which was really weird to me. Because, first off, I hadn't even gotten the chance to state my position, state what I believe.”
Hoping to address UI employment demands alongside academic needs for its students-in-training, UIHC recently partnered with the College of Nursing for what could serve as a “win-win-win.” By hiring students for a new “unit partner” position, the university aims to give them “invaluable experience while also supporting the workload of hospital staff and enhancing patient care.”
University of Iowa police on Thursday morning received a report of a male making threats with a knife on campus, according to a Hawk Alert distributed to students, faculty, and staff.
The proclamation came at the start of the University of Iowa’s annual Hawkeye Caucus Day at the Capitol in Des Moines – where students, staff, and faculty convened in the rotunda to show off to elected officials and visitors the research, outreach, impact, honors and awards they’ve achieved.
Although Theresa Sault-Brill sought $95,000 from the university to remedy what she characterized as “significant lost wages” and “emotional distress,” she signed a $20,000 settlement March 28 and agreed not to pursue or accept any future UI employment.
Facing concerns and objections from pensioners and other entities owed millions in “unsecured” claims, a bankrupt Mercy Iowa City – by means of attorneys burning through thousands by the hour – have negotiated a proposal for how to distribute the hospital’s limited resources.
The former NBC correspondent to teach ‘curiosity’ classes this fall in Pella.
15 college leaders would decide how state aid is distributed to campuses
COGS is crying foul on the fees – which have continued to swell since the union negotiated a half-off scholarship years ago.
“This university head came in and told us that Lia being on the team was non-negotiable. They also told us that if we ever spoke out about it, we would regret it, and we would spend the rest of our lives wishing that we hadn’t.”
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