University of Iowa faculty in African American Studies and Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies are preparing for closure of their programs following a review of “low-enrollment” degrees and majors compelled by the Legislature and Board of Regents.
University of Iowa Health Care and its medical college next week will seek Board of Regents approval for more than $32 million in upgrades -- including $12.2 million to bring the radiology and imaging department at its downtown campus up to UIHC standards.
Iowa Republican legislators are again moving forward proposals that would let legal gun owners keep firearms in locked vehicles on school and college property and ease restrictions on who can carry. Critics warned the bills could expand access to firearms in places and situations considered high-risk.
Months earlier than usual — and with legislation advancing to prohibit tuition increases in one way or another — Iowa’s Board of Regents on Tuesday proposed rate increases for the 2026-27 academic year aimed at addressing “uncertainty surrounding other primary revenue sources.”
A proposal to bar Iowa’s public universities from hiring Chinese citizens on H-1B visas — or any person holding those visas from countries the federal government has designated as a “foreign adversary” — passed out of the House Higher Education Committee this week.
Anticipating a $147 million deficit over the next six years -- just under $25 million a year -- Iowa State University Athletics this week announced news of financial help in the form of a $5 million commitment to endow its athletics director position.
The Republican chair of Iowa’s House Higher Education Committee has referred three University of Iowa job advertisements to the attorney general for containing “DEI language” — which has been banned by recently-passed legislation.
The Board of Regents received just one response to its request for qualifications from consulting firms interested in leading the search for a permanent executive director of its new University of Iowa-based Center for Intellectual Freedom.
Lawmakers on Wednesday advanced a bill to require all undergraduates attending a public university in Iowa to take survey courses on American history and American government -- despite pushback from Democratic lawmakers concerned with the cost, available faculty, and added pressure on students’ schedules.
The University of Iowa is reviewing undergraduate majors with low enrollment – like African American studies and gender, women’s, and sexuality studies – after the Board of Regents last year mandated a comprehensive study of how well campus programs are meeting workforce needs and student demands.
More than a century after its founding, nearly 30 years after a fatal stabbing marred its revelry, and just over a decade since it was canceled, the historic Iowa State University celebration known as VEISHEA could see a revival.
With only modest concern raised by a Board of Regents lobbyist and Democratic lawmaker, a House higher education subcommittee Tuesday advanced a bill that would prohibit Iowa’s public universities from increasing resident undergraduate tuition and fees by any amount for the next five years.
A bill that advanced out of an Iowa Legislature subcommittee this week would impose a tax on college and university endowments, and use the money generated from the tax to provide workforce grant incentive funds aimed at supporting students pursuing majors in high-wage and high-demand jobs.
Two months from the launch of the University of Iowa-based Center for Intellectual Freedom’s inaugural classes, its interim director this week shared details about what will be taught with lawmakers who have become increasingly interested and involved in curricular matters across Iowa’s public universities.
With temperatures expected to fall to minus 20 on Friday — and wind chills dipping as low as 35 below zero — the University of Iowa has moved classes online, instructing faculty and staff to teach via Zoom or Teams instead of asking students to show up in person.
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