The Iowa Hawkeye and Missouri Tigers football programs finally are getting their Music City matchup Dec. 30, four years after COVID in 2020 derailed their first scheduled faceoff – returning the University of Iowa to Nashville just two years after it shut out Kentucky 21-0 in the 2022 Music City Bowl.
Iowa’s public universities maintained, or even increased, their first-year undergraduate counts this fall – bucking a national trend of deep losses in 18-year-old freshmen, according to special analysis of that group recently released by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.
The State Appeal Board approved the settlements Tuesday.
Former Iowa City West prep Brendan Mott among top defenders in Big 12 and QB Avery Johnson always dangerous
Iowa’s public universities in recent months have made progress on complying with a new law restricting diversity, equity, and inclusion-related spending, training, and programming, but some regents and lawmakers say their work isn’t done.
He is a field agronomist who is part of an Iowa State University Extension “crops team” that are experts for farmers who have questions about planting and harvest and everything between.
In other campaign news, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday endorsed Iowa’s Ashley Hinson.
Cyclones dropped to 10th in AP poll and head into bye week banged up, but they are 7-0 for the first time in 86 years
Internal and external forces affecting higher education — from disruptions like COVID to evolving workforce demands, student needs, demographics, and public perceptions — are evident in recent enrollment counts, which are down again this fall for many of Iowa’s private colleges and universities.
The Iowa Supreme Court this week mulled a question at the heart of an Iowa State University professor’s lawsuit alleging decades of wage discrimination: how to interpret the law in a way that motivates fair compensation.
As technology has made the world seem smaller, college campuses have gotten bigger — expanding not just in place but over oceans, mountain ranges and glaciers under the northern lights of Iceland through university-sponsored study abroad programs that have reignited since the pandemic has waned.
Both of Iowa’s public research universities slipped in this year’s national U.S. News Best Colleges rankings, with the University of Iowa sliding five spots to No. 98 and Iowa State University dropping six to No. 121.
Although more “post-mortem” is needed to determine the full impact of the massive delays and widespread confusion that plagued the government’s botched rollout of its revised Free Application for Federal Student Aid last term, admissions directors across Iowa’s public universities last week recounted the ramifications for their campuses, their applicants, and their returning students.
Just under a year from the July 1, 2025, deadline for Iowa’s public universities to comply with a new state law restricting their diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts and staffing, Board of Regents President Sherry Bates on Thursday promised the campuses will be fully compliant early — by Dec. 31.
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