Articles Tagged: University of Iowa

Iowa poet also wrote letters to children from Peter Pan, toured war-torn Europe

Iowa’s new House Higher Education Committee has introduced a spate of study bills directed at Iowa’s public, private and community colleges and universities -- including several going further to limit diversity, equity and inclusion on the campuses and others imposing new mandates around what can and should be taught.

Also, the Iowa Senate is advancing new legislation that would require the teaching of fetal development in health and human growth classes

A representative from the conservative Manhattan Institute for Policy Research urged Iowa lawmakers Wednesday to get more involved in higher education -- including by changing Iowa Code to give the Legislature power to eliminate or add departments on its public university campuses.

All three of Iowa’s public universities “have ceased participating” in a nationwide initiative to diversify corporate America by increasing the diversity of business school faculty after a Republican lawmaker and head of the House higher education committee brought the issue to the Board of Regents.

“The cumulative amount of time spent by faculty, staff, and students processing unwanted email represents an enormous loss of personal and institutional productivity,” according to the new UI mass communications policy that took effect last week. “For email to remain a relevant means of communication, it must be strategic.

Grant Wood & friends were seriously kind to lecturers in Iowa City

Once in a while — amid the clamor and chaos of crowds and jeers and protests and press — someone would walk up to a 45-pound, third-grade Tricia Saunders and thank her for “what you’re doing for women’s lib.” As an 8-year-old, she said, “I didn’t know what that was.”

Just months after returning to the University of Iowa in spring 2024 following its removal for hazing in 2018 — when it was just re-establishing itself after closing in 2012 due to hazing — the UI chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon already is facing interim suspension, again, due to hazing allegations.

Research for years has linked exercise with long-term health benefits, but a new University of Iowa study highlights ways to capitalize on the connection in a health care setting.

Just days before lawmakers convene Monday in Des Moines for the 2025 legislative session, the Republican chair of a new Iowa House Higher Education Committee sent a letter to the state Board of Regents advising it to reject a University of Iowa proposal to create a new “School of Social and Cultural Analysis.”

Ahead of its public universities’ charge to draft strategic plan updates by February, Iowa’s Board of Regents next week will consider an update to its own five-year plan that eliminates references to diversity and inclusion.

In 2020, the University of Northern Iowa suspended its professional development assignments application process for the 2022 budget year — given requests are approved two years in advance — dropping the three public campuses’ total from 134 in 2021 to 72 in 2022.

Iowa’s Board of Regents, governing the state’s three public universities, has been understaffed for seven months spanning five meetings – with its student-regent seat sitting unfilled for the longest stretch since the Legislature in 1988 passed a law requiring a student fill one of the nine spots.

Ultimate goal is an Iowa that is “built for everyone” in the project being led by the UI and Pathfinders RC&D.