Students clamoring to return to campus – and return to the collegiate norms of in-person learning, group study sessions, football, tailgating, Greek rush, homecoming and the like – began moving into residence halls over the weekend and will continue their migration throughout the week.
Although administrators leading Iowa’s public universities say they can’t mandate vaccines or masks heading into a fall semester that arrives with COVID cases again on the rise, they’re encouraging their tens of thousands of campus community members to get a shot before returning.
Even before the pandemic upended education in 2020, fewer Iowans were filing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid — a key indicator of college enrollment and, for many, a “door” to higher education.
UNI on Monday unveiled a new articulation agreement with the entire Illinois Community College System — a 48-college collective serving nearly 700,000 students annually — that commits to recognize Illinois transfers with associate of arts degrees as having met UNI’s general education requirements.
Iowa Board of Regents votes Wednesday to approve tuition increases of 3.5 percent for resident undergraduates at the University of Iowa and Iowa State University and 1.5 percent for resident undergrads at the University of Northern Iowa.
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.
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