Higher Ed

David Hayes on Oct. 1, 2021, stepped in as 16th president of the 170-year-old Coe College of 1,371 students in the heart of Cedar Rapids — his hometown.

Iowa’s 15 community colleges collectively are projecting a $2.3 million dip in total resources for the next budget year — contributing to a projected $36.8 million deficit — propelled largely by previous bumps in federal funding, due to COVID-19, and more anticipated facility and program expenses.

Iowa State University has suspended its Men’s Cyclone Hockey Club following allegations of hazing, and administrators have launched an investigation into those accusations as well as the club’s finances, organizational structure, and oversight.

Two weeks after Iowa State University resigned from the esteemed Association of American Universities, and six years since the campus last updated its list of 10 comparison land-grant universities, faculty are asking whether ISU should re-evaluate who it considers its peers.

Seven weeks after the state approved construction of a new $19.2 million Steindler North Liberty Ambulatory Surgery Center near the booming I-380 and Forevergreen Road corridor, the affiliated Steindler Orthopedic Clinic on April 25 sold its Iowa City home base for $11 million.

Iowa State last week abdicated its AAU bragging rights by abruptly resigning from the esteemed invite-only collective of North America’s top research universities – leaving faculty, staff, students, lawmakers, and the wider public asking why and what it means.

The sapling, planted in front of Macbride Hall, was given to the UI by the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect USA.

Several petitions are circulating through the Iowa State University community opposing changes to its College of Liberal Arts and Sciences – specifically its history department – after administrators earlier this year announced $15 million in cuts by the 2026 budget year.

The family of a 2-year-old who died last year after a routine procedure to place tubes in his ears and remove his adenoids is suing an Iowa City physician for negligence by – among other things – allowing a University of Iowa medical resident to perform the surgery without the patient’s consent.

The Iowa state auditor has found $17,146.65 in misused or missing donations and gifts meant for University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics patients and families — largely those battling cancer — and evidence a former administrative specialist was behind the misuse.

Even as total enrollment across Iowa’s public, private, and community colleges and universities fell in fall 2021, Iowa’s institutes of higher education this academic year are educating more students who identify as a minority than last year – at a combined 39,120.

64 years after joining the prestigious Association of American Universities, Iowa State University on Thursday announced it’s leaving the group.