The day University of Iowa administrators announced women’s gymnastics head coach Larissa Libby had resigned — more than a month after placing her on paid administrative leave following an external program review — they signed a settlement paying her a total $449,000, plus a final payout of her $173,349 salary.
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The University of Iowa’s longest-serving dean, heading toward retirement after 17 years, now has a successor — with a six-month search landing University of Kentucky research professor Jill M. Kolesar.
The number of Free Applications for Federal Student Aid filed across Iowa still is well below previous years – including last year, when the state’s FAFSA numbers on May 10 were 16 percent above where they were on that date this year.
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A group of pro-Palestinian protesters removed from University of Iowa property earlier this month while setting up a prohibited encampment are asking a court to intervene and declare them constitutionally entitled to assemble and voice their demands and grievances on UI grounds.
In the face of objections from MercyOne — the Des Moines area health care system that for six years provided management over a troubled Mercy Iowa City — a federal judge is leaning toward approving a long-negotiated liquidation plan for the now-bankrupt community hospital that exposes MercyOne to liability and lawsuits.
The same day Iowa’s Board of Regents this month had its first consideration of across-the-board tuition increases for next fall, it also approved the public universities’ largest collective residence hall rate hikes in more than a decade — citing inflation, staffing struggles and years of meager rate bumps as the impetus.
About a year after announcing intentions to shutter and sell its “last-chosen and first-transferred-from” Mayflower Residence Hall, the University of Iowa has taken it off the market — citing “immense interest from returning and prospective students” to live on campus.
The Library of Congress has named an Iowa book of essays about agricultural pollution to a list of 56 “Great Reads” for 2024.
One week after a large California investment firm bought ACT Inc. – morphing the longtime Iowa City-based nonprofit testing company into a for-profit enterprise – a separate nonprofit organization the new ACT conglomerate promised to maintain retained the Iowa City campus and now is selling it.
Long before Harold Bradley Jr. was a Hawkeye football star, U.S. marine, NFL player, civil rights activist, teacher, husband, father, and internationally-esteemed artist, producer, actor and musician, he was born on Oct. 13, 1929 in Chicago – just days before the stock market crash that snowballed into the Great Depression.
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A first peek at proposed tuition increases for Iowa’s public universities — made public Monday — indicates resident undergraduate students at the University of Iowa and Iowa State University could pay 3 percent more next fall, while University of Northern Iowa in-state undergrads could pay 2 percent more.
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