Within 30 minutes of a group of pro-Palestinian protesters setting up a small encampment at the University of Iowa’s Hubbard Park just after 7 a.m. Monday morning, UI police were on scene ordering them to leave or be arrested.
Cedar Rapids mechanical contractor, founded in 1939, employs 500
Back in mid-March — more than a month before the Iowa Legislature passed a bill imposing on Iowa’s public universities sweeping diversity, equity, and inclusion restrictions that go beyond directives from their governing Board of Regents — Republican lawmakers sought a DEI update from the campuses.
Far from this week’s dramatic scenes of baton-wielding police clad in riot gear and bulletproof vests clashing with pro-Palestinian protesters on college campuses coast to coast — a diverse combination of Iowa City students and residents on Friday mingled peacefully on the University of Iowa Pentacrest lawn.
A criminal investigator for the state of Iowa suggested to colleagues last year that busting college athletes for online sports betting would impress the public and “the powers that be” and perhaps nudge lawmakers toward updating gambling laws.
Get a close-up look at some of the 100 fiberglass Herky statues that were installed at locations throughout Iowa City, Coralville, North Liberty, Tiffin and Solon on Tuesday night.
The 20th anniversary of Herky on Parade features 100 statues, including a handful grouped into a “G.O.A.T series” – like one in a “22” jersey named “From the Logo Herky” and another wearing Rudis shoes labeled “Yoda.”
IOWA CITY — Shea Brown and his business, BABL AI, won first place and $25,000 at the University of Iowa …
Twenty-six current and former student-athletes, most from the University of Iowa and Iowa State University, are suing the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation based on allegations the agency violated their constitutional rights by doing a warrantless search that led to sports betting charges.
Seven years after a Cedar Rapids-based contractor first started feuding with the University of Iowa over its work on the towering Stead Family Children’s Hospital, Iowa’s high court has weighed in and sided with the university on part of its appeal — reversing an order to pay Modern Piping another $12.8 million.
In response to 10 directives the Board of Regents handed down in the fall to curtail diversity, equity, and inclusion spending and programming across its public universities, presidents of all three campuses on Thursday shared significant changes underway – including the permanent closure of Iowa State University’s Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion office.
With questions about tenure, its value, and its threats still top of mind for some Republican lawmakers, the number of tenured and tenure-track faculty on Iowa’s regent campuses is continuing a generational slide to its lowest in recent history.
Early audience experience at the auditorium sparked Paul Amrani’s desire to dance.
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