In the year since taking over Iowa City’s bankrupt Mercy Hospital and transitioning the 78-year-old facility into its new downtown campus, University of Iowa Health Care has not completed a comprehensive review of staff badge access, “increasing the risk of unauthorized entry,” according to an internal audit made public this week.
A month after Iowa’s Board of Regents cut references to diversity and inclusion throughout its five-year strategic plan, Iowa’s public universities largely have done the same in response to legislation and regent directives curtailing all DEI efforts.
Proposed renovations going before the Board of Regents next week include an open study lounge with adjacent small-group study rooms; an expanded fitness center with floor-to-ceiling windows looking out toward Iowa City Park and the Iowa River; and a centralized vending area.
Despite a University of Iowa announcement in December of its intentions to seek approval this month of a new “School of Social and Cultural Analysis,” the plan has been shelved following legislative opposition and regent rejection.
That bigger Children’s Hospital window replacement budget — if approved by the Board of Regents next week — will bring the total cost to replace cracking and damaged windows encasing the eight-year-old hospital to $52.5 million.
Three days after a pair of Republican lawmakers contacted the Board of Regents with concerns over the number of genders listed on admission applications to Iowa’s public universities, all three campuses updated their forms to offer just three options: male, female, or “prefer not to answer.”
In voicing support for a legislative proposal to establish a new School of Intellectual Freedom at the University of Iowa -- with a bill that started in the House now bolstered by a companion bill in the Senate -- a tenured UI professor cited research revealing extreme political bias across top-ranked American colleges and universities, including in Iowa.
Iowa’s community colleges for 60 years have innovatively and persistently pursued a Legislature-levied mission to provide educational opportunities, workforce training, and community enrichment through two-year associate degrees, one-year certificates, and other continuing or high school-level academic programming.
While engineering has been around for thousands of years, recent advances in technology like Artificial Intelligence and challenges such as climate change have changed how engineering is being taught to better help prepare students to meet increasing demands.
Produced in partnership with the Iowa Engineering Society, E-Week is an annual celebration of engineering and all that it, and engineers, contribute to our world. The Gazette's E-Week showcases a variety of engineering topics.
The Iowa Institute for Hydraulic Research’s work can be seen around the world, but its biggest impact is felt closer to home.
The Iowa Department of Public Safety says under current law there is no legal mechanism by which to charge individuals for sharing their sports betting accounts with others or making bets on another’s behalf.
Iowa House lawmakers this week advanced several bills aimed at closing Iowa's growing shortage of physicians.
Republican lawmakers Wednesday advanced
A day after the University of Iowa paused or slowed research-related grant applications, hiring, and general spending in response to funding cuts announced by the National Institutes of Health — the campus’ largest federal research funder — UI officials on Tuesday retracted that guidance due to a temporary restraining order on the NIH cuts.
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