Internal and external forces affecting higher education — from disruptions like COVID to evolving workforce demands, student needs, demographics, and public perceptions — are evident in recent enrollment counts, which are down again this fall for many of Iowa’s private colleges and universities.
Hundreds of fans greet Iowa basketball teams and women wrestlers in downtown Iowa City
University of Iowa Health Care’s new $280 million deal to expand its cancer-care reach into Central and Western Iowa is about better serving patients in the midst of a statewide “cancer crisis” and is “not a play to have more and more patients come to us in Iowa City,” UIHC officials told the Board of Regents on Tuesday.
Raising money for the Agape Cafe in Iowa City, which serves those homeless or food insecure, is his latest effort.
As University of Iowa International Writing Program director for more than two decades and an accomplished writer himself — having published, among other things, seven collections of poetry and six books of non-fiction — Merrill got to know Yakimchuk, who recently had read her poem “Prayer” during John Legend’s performance of “Free” at the 2022 Grammys, backdropped by images of Russia’s occupation of her homeland.
A former University of Iowa student who three years ago filed a lawsuit against the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, its UI chapter, and two former fraternity brothers she accused of sexually assaulting her, filming it, and sharing the images via social media has dropped her case against the fraternity and one of the brothers she sued.
In the 1960s, world-renowned University of Iowa printmaker used primarily pencils to express outrage over Holocaust atrocities
As technology has made the world seem smaller, college campuses have gotten bigger — expanding not just in place but over oceans, mountain ranges and glaciers under the northern lights of Iceland through university-sponsored study abroad programs that have reignited since the pandemic has waned.
Both of Iowa’s public research universities slipped in this year’s national U.S. News Best Colleges rankings, with the University of Iowa sliding five spots to No. 98 and Iowa State University dropping six to No. 121.
Although more “post-mortem” is needed to determine the full impact of the massive delays and widespread confusion that plagued the government’s botched rollout of its revised Free Application for Federal Student Aid last term, admissions directors across Iowa’s public universities last week recounted the ramifications for their campuses, their applicants, and their returning students.
A Pennsylvania man was convicted this week for making false claims against his fantasy football player rival after they had an online dispute. He told authorities his rival planned a mass shooting in Oslo, Norway, and bombing at the University of Iowa.
Just under a year from the July 1, 2025, deadline for Iowa’s public universities to comply with a new state law restricting their diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts and staffing, Board of Regents President Sherry Bates on Thursday promised the campuses will be fully compliant early — by Dec. 31.
Adding to nearly $1 billion in construction University of Iowa Health Care is pursuing across its main Iowa City campus and new North Liberty site, system officials Wednesday aired preliminary plans to spend more than $25 million upgrading its new downtown campus to meet UIHC standards.
After Iowa’s public universities in the spring promised to pursue a DEI-related directive from regents and lawmakers to explore establishing new “free speech and civic education” initiatives on their campuses, the University of Northern Iowa is forging ahead with a proposed Center for Civic Education.
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