Marking its highest requested state funding increase in nearly a decade, Iowa’s Board of Regents is seeking $34.7 million more in education appropriations from the Legislature for the next budget year – due, in part, to soaring inflation.
Pruning away dried up programs, degrees, and academic centers while reframing, reformatting, or fashioning anew majors and curricular opportunities meeting student and employer demands is becoming increasingly imperative for institutions vying to attract and retain students from a shrinking pool of applicants.
Navigating North Liberty will get more cumbersome once the University of Iowa completes its half-billion-dollar hospital project, according to a traffic study UI commissioned to determine what measures it should take to help mitigate congestion in the booming district.
The often congested University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics emergency room is getting a much-needed $24.6 million expansion over the next two years – enabling progress toward the big-ticket items on UI Health Care’s 10-year master plan, including a new inpatient tower, ambulatory care center, and research facility.
Iowa State University is hoping to figure out one large piece of solving the state’s affordable housing issue with 3D printing
During the pandemic, nearly half of Iowa high school seniors applied for college financial aid — on par with the previous cycle but below pre-pandemic levels and lower than the national rate, according to a new state FAFSA report.
A former University of Iowa Health Care professor and member of the UI Cancer Center — who today is a professor and dean of the University of Nebraska College of Medicine — is the fourth and last finalist to become the next UIHC vice president for medical affairs and medical college dean.
The University of Iowa has named Larry Weber to lead IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering, a century-old program that includes the Iowa Flood Center and water quality research.
University of Iowa Health Care on Tuesday got state approval to continue building a massive 469,000-square-foot hospital campus in North Liberty as planned – despite a more than 33 percent cost overrun, bringing the total project budget to more than half a billion dollars.
Touching on issues past and present, Coe College’s 30-plus year forum series for this academic year kicks off in September and runs through April with 23 installments covering eight topics — from “critical race theory” to evolution to “The History of Sport in the United States.”
Founding director of the trauma center at the University of Chicago Hospitals — where he also serves as executive vice president of community health engagement and chief of trauma and acute care surgery — participated in a public forum Monday as the third finalist to lead University of Iowa Health Care and its medical college.
“When people think $20,000 isn’t a lot, out of my $85,000, that’s a lot for me.”
A tenured Iowa State University art history professor is suing her employer, the state, and three ISU supervisors for violating her civil rights in the way they responded to her COVID-related request to continue teaching online last fall due to an ongoing disability.
The second of four finalists to succeed Brooks Jackson as University of Iowa Health Care’s vice president for medical affairs and dean of the Carver College of Medicine has served as executive dean of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine for three years.
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