Universities nationwide, including those across Iowa, are prioritizing access and affordability to higher education among their recruiting strategies – even as tuition rises – and many hope a first update to the Free Application for Federal Student Aid in many decades will help.
Seasonal festivities in store for bowl-bound UI football fans.
As the University of Iowa continues its takeover of Mercy Iowa City, administrators are sharing more details about the transition — including the appointment this week of Deborah Berini to lead management and integration with the now-bankrupt community hospital.
Among the complexities of a Mercy Iowa City bankruptcy sale to the University of Iowa is its electronic medical system transition – with any gap or abrupt termination of system operations posing “significant” threat to Mercy and its patients.
About halfway through construction of the University of Iowa’s new 469,000-square-foot hospital campus in North Liberty, its orthopedics department this week shared more details about plans to move its clinical, surgical, research, and educational operations to the Forevergreen Road site — further backing his characterization of the campus as an “orthopedic hospital.”
During the holidays, we’re tempted to spend too much money on gifts, stay up too late, fill our calendar with parties, skip regular exercise or eat too much. Here’s what a UI professor had to say on how centering your values can help avoid holiday burnout.
Although only a fraction of the students who graduate in more traditional spring ceremonies do so in December, Iowa’s public universities this weekend will celebrate thousands participating in fall commencements across their respective campuses.
A month after Iowa’s Board of Regents approved a list of diversity, equity and inclusion recommendations, like restructuring DEI offices and cutting unnecessary positions, its public universities have started to “review and reimagine” their campus DEI efforts.
When the University of Iowa finalizes its purchase of the 150-year-old Mercy Iowa City campus, it will be renamed “University of Iowa Health Care Medical Center Downtown,” according to a rebranding UIHC announced Thursday.
A flag atop a Hawkeye fan-led Change.org petition urging the Cheez-It Citrus Bowl to “let the bands play” reads “victory” after event organizers this week announced both the Hawkeye Marching Band and Pride of the Southland Band will perform on the field before the game and at halftime.
University of Iowa Health Care will pay $780,000 to settle a pair of lawsuits alleging negligence against providers — one accusing a UI plastic surgeon of a botched breast reconstruction and another accusing an otolaryngologist of making life-changing errors while performing brain surgery without the help of a neurosurgeon.
Nine people have been charged after a protest in front of Kinnick Stadium on Saturday ended in arrests for trespassing.
With University of Northern Iowa strapped for cash and its tuition revenue sliding, unionized faculty members are criticizing the administration for giving nearly $4.3 million of the campus’ general university funds to athletics in the 2023 budget year – which was almost $1 million more than planned.
Among Preston Hollow’s concerns with additional delays is the millions Mercy is accumulating in attorney fee.The bondholder also argues that extending Mercy’s exclusive right to file a plan that ultimately fails to garner support would hamstring bondholders for months, “resulting in over $10 million of dollars of lost value.”
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