Articles Tagged: Iowa Board of Regents

Complicating vehicle and foot traffic in and around the main University of Iowa Health Care campus and its neighboring Kinnick Stadium — beginning this summer and stretching into and through the upcoming Hawkeye football season — is construction of a new road and roundabout, creating a multifaceted utility corridor necessary for a massive new UIHC inpatient tower in the works.

The University of Iowa has agreed to suspend “internal proceedings” with a tenured associate professor and not fire him as long as he resigns, relinquishes his tenure rights, and stays away from “any of the three graduate students referred to as ‘complainants’ in the university’s investigation reports.”

In less than two months, thousands of freshmen will be moving into their new college digs — with the fall semester for Iowa’s three public universities starting Aug. 26. Orientation sessions this summer are attracting thousands.

Both the University of Iowa and Iowa State University lost meaningful ground in the U.S. News & World Report’s 2024-2025 “Best Global Universities Rankings” — which were released Tuesday, revealing a 45-spot slide for the Hawkeyes and an 81-position drop for Iowa State.

Six-plus decades after the University of Iowa began managing a 485-acre swath of mostly woodland known as the Macbride Nature Recreation Area — host to popular UI programs like School of the Wild, the Iowa Raptor Project, and Iowa Wildlife Camps — the university is reviewing its use of that land “to ensure fiscal sustainability and consistency with the university’s mission of excellent education and research opportunities for a broad array of students.”

Interspersed with their chants opposing tuition and fee increases during last week’s Board of Regents meeting, protesting graduate students demanded their universities divest from companies tied to Israel – echoing a refrain heard from campus protesters nationally in recent weeks and months.

Despite graduate student calls for a tuition freeze and eliminiation of fees -- alongside undergraduate testimony about mounting financial pressure on Iowa’s public university students -- Iowa’s Board of Regents on Thursday unanimously approved across-the-board rate hikes for upcoming academic year.

Both University of Iowa President Barbara Wilson and Iowa State University President Wendy Wintersteen will get a $60,000 pay raise in the new budget year starting July 1, following performance evaluations this week with their governing Board of Regents.

University of Iowa Health Care – undertaking more than $1 billion in new, expanded, or upgraded facility projects – wants to increase patient rates 6 percent in the upcoming budget year beginning July 1 to keep up with health care inflation, among other things.

A state lawmaker is demanding the University of Iowa immediately audit its animal testing programs and pursue alternative research methods based on a watchdog group’s findings that UI researchers experimented on donated “pet dogs” who then were “euthanized and dissected, despite the available treatments.”

Following years of planning, fundraising challenges, negotiations, discord, and compromise, Iowa State University is seeking Board of Regents approval to enter into a “creative” agreement with the City of Ames to help finance a new $200 million CyTown development and maintain four ISU buildings central to its arts and entertainment core.

School’s out for summer for many of Iowa’s college and university students, but that doesn’t mean work has stopped across the sprawling campuses — where hard hats have replaced commencement caps and skid loaders have taken the place of scooters.

Years after first initiating a plan to expand its maternity services — which delivered nearly 3,000 babies in 2023 — University of Iowa Health Care next week will seek Board of Regents permission to pursue a $74 million, 30,000-square-foot renovation for expanded labor, delivery, and postpartum patient care.

The University of Iowa is eyeing an expansion and renovation of its Tippie College of Business — with the project to expand and modernize both the Pappajohn Business Building and nearby Gilmore Hall expected to cost $45 to $60 million.

A month since several regents and lawmakers criticized Iowa’s public universities for keeping too close to the vest details on their progress to pare down diversity, equity, and inclusion functions, the University of Iowa has shared a campuswide update on its new “Division of Access Opportunity & Diversity.”