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
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
Officer failed to stop at a stop sign, hit vehicle
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.”
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