After considering a resolution earlier this week to rebuff a Board of Regents prohibition of mask mandates by encouraging faculty to act “at their own discretion,” even if it violates state law and board policy, University of Northern Iowa’s Faculty Senate opted for a less combative stance.
The Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines have proved “highly effective at preventing symptomatic COVID-19” among health care workers in “real-world” settings, according to a new national study that involved 300-plus University of Iowa Health Care workers.
Faculty across Iowa’s public universities are continuing to demand the right to mandate masks in the classroom — looping in attorneys and considering resolutions urging faculty, regardless of state law or campus policy, to act in their own best interest and that of their students and the community.
“It came a lot faster than I thought it would,” UI sophomore Lyman, 20, told The Gazette on Friday, the day after UI Athletics announced plans to become the first Power Five conference school to add women’s wrestling. “It’s exciting to see Iowa doing it first – that’s a big thing.”
Hawkeye Athletics had been considering the idea for years, Athletics director Gary Barta said, noting growing national interest in the sport while more women are attending colleges.
When prominent animal behavior scientist and autism advocate Temple Grandin stands before a Coe College crowd this evening, she plans to pose a question: “What would have happened to Einstein in today’s educational system, since he had no speech until he was 3?”
Employees are retiring, moving to less stressful careers, as UI works to hire hundreds
Ashley Hudson –an “aspiring kindergarten teacher and had dreams of becoming a Mount Mercy graduate” – died Monday, Sept. 20, as a result of COVID complications.
A strategic planning survey Iowa’s Board of Regents Office in June sent to more 230 Iowans — including every lawmaker, every member of the governor’s staff and every state department head — received 75 responses, including just 17 from the 200-plus lawmakers and state staffers who got it.
‘I have no illusions that we will ever go back to so-called normal’
Former Hawkeye football players suing the University of Iowa and some athletics staffers for racially motivated discrimination and harassment are reporting a behind-the-scenes dispute over discovery and asking a judge to extend a deadline because of it.
Officials say foul play is not suspected after the body was reported early Friday outside of Burge Residence Hall
Just as the Board of Regents’ five-year strategic plan nears its end, higher education across the nation and in Iowa finds itself experiencing widespread disruption and primed for a fresh – re-imagined – start.
Regents give no indication that mask mandate policy will change
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