Higher Ed

“The health and safety of students is a priority at the University of Iowa, and many students enjoy opening their windows in their living spaces for fresh air,” UI spokesman Chris Brewer told The Gazette.

Although Iowa’s regent universities still enroll far more Iowans than out-of-state residents, the gap between the two groups of students is narrowing – with all three campuses reporting fewer resident students this fall than last fall.

Through her work on “The 1619 Project” in its many iterations – and again Wednesday evening on the Iowa State University campus – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones argued for making slavery central to the American story, rather than just an asterisk.

Initial reports are the fall was an accident, as students said they were “playing around in a residence hall room when one student leaned back and fell through the screen of an open window,” a UI spokeswoman said.

More than seven years after a Cedar Rapids contractor first sued the University of Iowa over payment for work on a pair of high-profile projects – its new Hancher Auditorium and children’s hospital – a jury has delivered another blow to UI, ordering it pay $12.8 million more.

Despite massive deficits during the pandemic for both University of Iowa and Iowa State University athletics, both programs not only are reporting a rebound but record-breaking revenue in the budget year that just ended.

With more than a year of construction to go on a new 38,500-square-foot, two-level Hawkeye wrestling practice facility, the University of Iowa is moving to officially name it after a family that made the $7 million lead gift.

Two women with separate stories of discrimination are suing the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics for disparate treatment they say upended their health care careers and humiliated them, according to a pair of lawsuits filed on the same day.

Members of the Supreme Court's conservative majority are questioning the continued use of affirmative action in higher education in lengthy arguments Monday in which the justices are wrestling with difficult questions of race.

Nearly two years after stepping in as interim — already having steered the college through a pandemic, derecho cleanup, and race-related tensions — David Hayes on a fall Friday afternoon that coated the campus with foliage accenting the school’s gold and crimson colors officially was inaugurated as Coe’s 16th president.

After dipping slightly during the height of COVID-19, visits to the University of Iowa Office of the Ombudsperson — which provides “problem solving and conflict resolution” services to students, faculty, and staff — increased to 661 in the budget year that just ended.

The Board of Regents has settled a lawsuit with a former Iowa State University custodian who said she wasn’t informed she could take leave for her migraines, retaliated against for time off she took to address them, and discriminated against because of her skin color.