Faculty across Iowa’s public universities are voicing disappointment this fall’s COVID-19 conditions aren’t as improved as hoped — or as they seemed just weeks ago — and urging administrators, as hard as it might be, to make the tough call to backpedal on promises for a more normal semester.
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.
The University of Iowa, Iowa State University and the University of Northern Iowa, while rivals, have neighboring booths at the Iowa State Fairgrounds each year.
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.
2018 Linn-Mar graduate Chase Krug is a finalist for one of the National FFA Organization’s top achievement awards — American Star in Agriscience.
Both University of Iowa and Iowa State University this week reported new external funding records for the budget year that wrapped June 30.
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.
Iowa on Tuesday became home to the National Science Foundation’s fourth and final wireless research platform — supported through a $100 million public-private partnership — thanks to a $16 million investment in Iowa State-led research aimed at achieving universal and affordable rural broadband.
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.
Origami sculptures at Reiman Gardens to a Cyclone City Tour and eateries await visitors to the home of Iowa State University.
While masks can be easy to recycle or reserve in case of another surge or viral emergency, large sheets of acrylic glass can be harder to reuse, repurpose, or materially reprocess.
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