In the last three years, the University of Iowa has spent or is committed to spend a total of $125,899 on services or products from Des Moines-based Seneca Companies, which Iowa’s newest regent serves as president and chief operating officer.
University of Iowa Physicians – a medical and surgical group based in its Carver College of Medicine – has agreed to pay $600,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by the North Liberty wife of a patient who died in August 2015 of complications from a metastatic neuroendocrine tumor.
Affirming its status as the costliest hospital project in state history, the Board of Regents on Wednesday unanimously agreed to increase the budget for University of Iowa Health Care’s new facility in North Liberty by 33 percent — bringing the total price tag to $525.6 million.
Resident undergraduates headed to any of Iowa’s three public universities this fall will pay 4.25 percent more than students did last year after the Board of Regents on Wednesday unanimously approved tuition increases across their campuses.
The traditionally self-sustaining University of Iowa Athletics Department – a year after taking a $50 million loan from the main campus amid massive COVID-19 losses – has paid back $3 million to date, administrators told the Board of Regents on Wednesday.
Before Iowa’s Board of Regents on Wednesday gave the go-ahead for Iowa State University this fall to launch a new bachelor of science in climate science degree, regent Nancy Boettger warned administrators to keep “freedom of speech” in mind.
Iowa’s newest regent – J.C. Risewick, president of Des Moines-based Seneca Cos. – was chosen from among seven applicants for the recent Board of Regents vacancy, although he submitted a bare-bones application that didn’t include his education or employment history.
A year after University of Iowa Athletics reported a $42.9 million deficit and Iowa State University Athletics reported spending $17 million more than it made — due to COVID-related losses — both the Hawkeyes and Cyclones are predicting the 2023 budget year will be their most lucrative to date.
Emails obtained by The Gazette indicate the enrollment process this summer has been more challenging than others — and potentially more problematic for students aiming to complete degree requirements and graduate in four years.
Due to a larger-than-expected freshmen class headed to the University of Iowa next month – meaning strong demand for on-campus housing for the fall semester – UI has announced several measures aimed at mitigating crowding in its residence halls.
Bolstered by tens of millions in federal stimulus and COVID aid, both of Iowa’s public research universities busted external funding records in fiscal 2022 – by $49 million at the University of Iowa and $42.6 million at Iowa State University.
The state has agreed to a $7.5 million medical malpractice settlement after a 41-year-old Davenport man suffered severe life-limiting impairments following care at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics for a bleeding brain tumor about five years ago.
Adding to a growing slate of updated or new facilities University of Iowa Athletics is pursuing – or has in recent years – is a new field hockey building the department wants to start planning.
In lawsuit-related settlements and judgments for the budget year that ended Thursday, Iowa paid a total $22.3 million — including $6.1 million involving Board of Regents institutions, or about 27 percent.
Members of Iowa’s current Board of Regents have made monetary and in-kind political donations totaling nearly $339,500 since 2019 — primarily to Republicans, with the majority going either to Gov. Kim Reynolds or the Republican Party of Iowa.
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