A 56-year-old Iowa City man is facing misdemeanor assault charges after authorities and University of Iowa officials say he hit two campus employees “in the back of the head, with no justification” on Monday morning.
Although UIHC in reapplying for a state “certificate of need” didn’t amend its project cost or size, officials did change how they described it - and the council highlighted that as a “significant” difference between the initially rejected and subsequently approved applications.
“Coe has made significant investments in this area, and will continue to do so going forward,” says the college’s new president.
In a small dark room at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in November 2017 — just days after Thanksgiving — Alisha and Ross Stottmeister felt the devastating crush of unexpected silence.
Iowa State University has agreed to pay a former professor and lab director $275,000 as part of a settlement stemming from years of accusations both from her and against her — including that her department chair and his domestic partner made unwanted sexual advances.
Coe College community members protested Thursday in response to diversity, equity, and inclusion concerns following the private college’s recent presidential search – prompting two trustees to resign and issue scathing letters accusing colleagues of deceit.
Even with COVID crippling community services and hampering projects and initiatives last year, a “heart safe community campaign” in honor of the late University of Iowa cardiology professor Richard Kerber did not skip a beat — so to speak.
Once again, fewer students enrolled in Iowa’s 15 community colleges this fall — continuing a decadelong slide that COVID exacerbated, driving a 7.5 percent drop from fall 2019 to fall 2021.
Though total enrollment across Iowa’s public universities has been sliding for the last five years — including big drops from COVID since 2019 — the University of Iowa is predicting a 4-percent one-year jump next fall and 6-percent bump by 2026, according to new data UI provided to lawmakers.
With Iowa eager to put COVID in the rear view mirror, Board of Regents President Mike Richards in May lifted the state of emergency he imposed in March 2020 and mandated Iowa’s public universities return to pre-pandemic operations.
Like other award recipients from the upended 2020-21 term, Dizdarevic said she’s glad to get any experience at all through an esteemed Fulbright program – the world’s largest international exchange program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and celebrating its 75th anniversary in 2021.
Protests that enveloped the University of Iowa’s Phi Gamma Delta fraternity this fall caused more than $200,000 in damage to the chapter house and displaced 28 members for the semester.
Although the retreat from daylight saving time might have worn off by Nov. 19, anyone still riding that extra hour into predawn wakefulness might get to see this month’s beaver moon turn “blood” red when North American gets a front-row seat for the century’s longest lunar eclipse.
The University of Iowa-based State Hygienic Laboratory – which for the last nearly two years has been on the front lines of Iowa’s COVID response – hasn’t been consistently charging customers or collecting documentation, leaving on the table as much as $1.1 million, according to a recent audit.
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