Despite Gov. Kim Reynolds’ veto of $1.5 million lawmakers appropriated toward a University of Northern Iowa effort to charge in-state tuition to undergrads from border states, UNI has found a way to offer the good-neighbor discount anyway.
A 12-member committee charged with helping find Iowa State University’s next president aims to cast a wide applicant net, leaning toward using the word “preferred” instead of “required” for candidate attributes like a terminal degree or higher ed experience.
Reiterating Iowa’s “longstanding support for Israel and the Jewish community,” Gov. Kim Reynolds on Monday ordered the Board of Regents to review antisemitism policies at each of its universities and report back to her office on acts of antisemitism since Oct. 7, 2023.
With Board of Regents permission to start work on the first of three phases for its more than $1.5 billion patient tower, University of Iowa Health Care is seeking an outside firm to audit in real time what is expected to be the largest construction project in state history.
Cornell College is the latest Iowa institution to take a stab at defanging its $54,776 tuition-and-fees tally by instituting a new “Save Your Seat” program, which this week proactively sent 19,357 prospective students “personalized financial aid estimates.”
Echoing the CyTown multiuse development district that Iowa State University initiated five years ago, the University of Northern Iowa on Wednesday announced plans for a “Panther District.”
“Call our legislators and tell them what a bad idea this is (from your own phone or using your own email),” UI Interim Vice President for Research Lois Geist wrote. “Being located where we are, we have limited ability to publicly fight this as faculty or as an institution.”
Nearly a decade after an investigation into Iowa State University’s Flight Service incited a Board of Regents reprimand of former ISU President Steven Leath, auditors again have uncovered “unacceptable weaknesses” in the ISU Flight Service unit.
With the $1 million Iowa lawmakers appropriated in the last session for a new Center for Civic Education at the University of Northern Iowa, the campus has hired a founding director following a national search.
A year after the University of Iowa aired plans for a multi-stage expansion and modernization of its Tippie College of Business, the Henry B. Tippie family has committed another $20 million toward a campaign to make the project happen.
All three of Iowa’s public university presidents are getting pay raises this year — including a 9-percent bump for University of Iowa President Barbara Wilson, upping her annual base salary from $760,000 to $825,000.
After eight years, Board of Regents Executive Director Mark Braun — who started 17 days before Iowa State University President Wendy Wintersteen was hired in 2017 — is planning to join her in retiring.
Hearing by email and public comment criticism of a proposal to bar “diversity, equity, and inclusion” and “critical race theory” requirements for university majors, minors, or certificates -- Iowa’s Board of Regents on Wednesday committed to reviewing and changing the proposed new policy.
On the heels of a White House memo last week threatening the hundreds of millions in Medicaid-related directed payment revenue University of Iowa Health Care has been getting for the last three years, administrators Wednesday said they could rethink plans for a planned $1.5 billion inpatient tower on the main UIHC campus.
The Board of Regents will pay AGB, the firm hired to lead its search for a new president of Iowa State University, a fee equal to 25 percent of the annual base salary of the candidate hired to succeed outgoing President Wendy Wintersteen.
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