A bill that advanced out of an Iowa Legislature subcommittee this week would impose a tax on college and university endowments, and use the money generated from the tax to provide workforce grant incentive funds aimed at supporting students pursuing majors in high-wage and high-demand jobs.
Two months from the launch of the University of Iowa-based Center for Intellectual Freedom’s inaugural classes, its interim director this week shared details about what will be taught with lawmakers who have become increasingly interested and involved in curricular matters across Iowa’s public universities.
With temperatures expected to fall to minus 20 on Friday — and wind chills dipping as low as 35 below zero — the University of Iowa has moved classes online, instructing faculty and staff to teach via Zoom or Teams instead of asking students to show up in person.
More than a decade after the Iowa Legislature rejected a Board of Regents proposal to link state appropriations with performance metrics, lawmakers have revived the concept of “performance-based funding” in a new bill that would direct regents to reevaluate the incentive-driven funding formula.
Iowa State University agricultural economist asks, “Those new tariffs — what does that mean for this agreement?”
New research from Iowa State University, that builds on research released last fall, finds that only 6.6 percent of cover crop users plant them consistently; nearly 30 percent are ‘intermittent adopters’.
Transit systems across Iowa recently landed $77.2 million in Federal Transit Administration grant funding, including $20.8 million to make the University of Iowa and Iowa State University bus systems more environmentally-friendly.
The electric grid can handle a certain amount of damage, but climate change is increasing extreme weather events in the state. Can utilities keep it running under extreme conditions without raising consumer costs?
Among nearly two dozen higher education-related study bills dropped in the first week of the new legislative session is one looking to reshape the Board of Regents — which for more than a century has governed Iowa’s three public universities.
At the center of a legislative proposal to require undergraduate students at Iowa’s public universities to take courses on American history and American government is the question of what role lawmakers should have in a public university classroom.
Two years after changing Iowa Code to strip presidential-selection power from members of a university community, Republican legislators want to rewrite that amendment to clarify their intentions -- after a recent Iowa State University search concerned some lawmakers.
With higher education coming under a more permanent and scrutinizing legislative gaze last session with the establishment of a new standing committee in the Iowa House, chair Taylor Collins promised sustained focus on the state’s colleges and universities when the 91st General Assembly reconvenes on Monday.
Two years after the U.S. Department of Education botched its rollout of a new “Free Application for Federal Student Aid” meant to grow participation by simplifying the process, the revised FAFSA seems to be doing its job — including in Iowa.
Twenty years ago, most undergraduate credit hours at the University of Iowa, Iowa State University, and University of Northern Iowa were taught by tenured or tenure-track faculty -- topping 55 percent at UI, 56 percent at ISU, and 72 percent at UNI.
Guaranteeing four years of flat tuition for incoming freshmen across Iowa’s public universities might offer more financial predictability and stability for students and families, but it could do the opposite for the institutions, according to a recent study.
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