Articles Tagged: Iowa Board of Regents

Stepping into the University of Iowa presidency as her campus emerges from an historically tumultuous year that stressed the budget and prompted her predecessor to trim programs, eliminate sports, and

Athletics deficits that the University of Iowa and Iowa State University projected for the last pandemic-plagued season were not as steep as anticipated, according to new Board of Regents budget recaps showing Hawkeye income was $35.8 million above expectations.

With the full 2021 budget year now wrapped, University of Iowa Athletics has confirmed no contracted football coaches – including head coach Kirk Ferentz – participated in voluntary salary reductions announced a year ago in light of COVID-19 losses the department projected to be devastating and justifying of its decision to eliminate several Hawkeye sports and take a $50 million loan from the main campus.

Just weeks before starting her tenure as 22nd University of Iowa president, Barbara Wilson recently signed a formal employment contract and deferred compensation plan that includes some notable differences from those of her predecessor Bruce Harreld.

Six-million-dollar grant will enable the launch of a new UI Hawkeye Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center, or Hawk-IDDRC.

Enrollment at Iowa’s public universities is down this summer after a pandemic-plagued fall and spring — dragging Iowa State’s numbers to their lowest level in at least a decade and resurrecting 90s-era University of Iowa summer counts.

Student government leaders want lawmakers to increase state appropriations and reverse the state’s generational disinvestment in Iowa’s public universities.

3.5% increase proposed at the University of Iowa and Iowa State; 1.5% at the University of Northern Iowa

One year ago, Coe College in Cedar Rapids announced it would start recognizing Juneteenth as a campus-wide holiday, a year before the federal government would take the step.

In response to Iowa-specific legislation Gov. Kim Reynolds signed into law Tuesday, echoing the now-reversed White House order by barring the same “divisive” concepts from mandatory training at public universities and other government entities, UI indicated the bill won’t affect programming.

The state on Monday approved millions to compensate or settle eight separate accusations of discrimination and negligence at its public universities — including payments to former University of Iowa police officers who sued for age discrimination.

UIHC has improved its overall rating to four of five stars, putting it on par or above 86 percent of the 3,355 U.S. hospitals applicable for the five-star rating.

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The unified approach comes on the heels of incidents and complaints at all three public universities.

Iowa’s Board of Regents this week is meeting in person for the first time since the pandemic to, among other things, evaluate and set goals with its university presidents - including