A month since several regents and lawmakers criticized Iowa’s public universities for keeping too close to the vest details on their progress to pare down diversity, equity, and inclusion functions, the University of Iowa has shared a campuswide update on its new “Division of Access Opportunity & Diversity.”
Cedar Rapids theater building sported 42-foot sign, 1928 to 1965
Also, Gov. Kim Reynolds issues storm disaster proclamation.
A Cedar Rapids man was sentenced Monday to 50 years in prison on a charge of second-degree murder after he fatally assaulted his 71-year-old mother in 2020.
A Cedar Rapids man was sentenced last week to 30 years in federal prison on charges that he sold methamphetamine and laundered the funds associated with the drug trafficking.
Available for adoption at Cedar Rapids Animal Care & Control
A classroom at Prairie High School has been transformed into a simulated workplace to help students with disabilities or other barriers to employment after high school. Participants get to explore 275 jobs in the five career areas.
The refuge, cradled in the Driftless Area and bordered by steep wooded bluffs, includes nearly 250,000 acres of floodplain forests, braided river channels, marshes and prairie that provides habitat to more than 300 bird species.
After 20 years leading Loras College – the state’s oldest campus, founded in 1839, seven years before Iowa became a state in 1846 – James E. Collins next year will retire as the college’s longest-serving president and one of the longest-serving of any president to have led any college or university in Iowa.
Temporary exhibit celebrates presidential couple’s 150th birthdays
Also, Cedar Rapids seeks training on homelessness diversion
Moving from Jordan as a teen, Maya Dahdaleh will continue writing at the University of Iowa.
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