Articles Tagged: University of Iowa

Conservative commentator Matt Walsh – as part of his nationwide “What is a Woman” documentary tour – is planning a visit to the University of Iowa this month, inciting some complaints, concerns and an online petition to shut down his lecture.

“The Secret Schoolhouse” is a one-time event planned for 7:30 p.m. April 12 in The James Theater in Iowa City. The covert operation will require a ticket – a “golden ticket.” And they aren’t available for purchase.

University of Iowa presenting world-renown ensembles from Tel Aviv April 17 to 23

“I hope that they got some confidence,” 10-year-old Chandler Felton, of Ely, said about the Iowa women’s basketball team upon its return to a massive crowd of cheering fans Monday. “I hope that they feel like there’s lots of supporters out there for them. And that they should be really proud.”

Heather Heddens’ high school heroics came on the court in the 1970s when girls played six-on-six basketball. The game changed to 5-on-5, full-court basketball in 1994, but the enthusiasm the sport stirs among Iowans remains the same.

UI symposium March 30 to April 1 features films, lectures, exhibits in Iowa City

A Board of Regents pause on new diversity, equity, and inclusion programming – enacted last week in response to a Republican-led bill

Iowa Republicans have pushed forward a bill that would change how county supervisors are elected in Johnson, Story and Black Hawk counties.

Best practice for K-12 schools is to offer one psychologist per 500 students, but Iowa is far lacking — at one per 1,900 students, with its outlook “worsening,” according to the National Association of School Psychologists.

Three Iowa high school students were recognized for their talents through the Grant Wood Legacy Prize from the University of Iowa’s Grant Wood Art Colony.

In this week’s Corridor Cross Checks, we write about a good week for both the Iowa Heartlanders and Cedar Rapids RoughRiders. And about the University of Iowa men’s club hockey team, which has qualified for the ACHA Division II national tournament.

Fifty years after Iowa began collecting and analyzing data on residents diagnosed with cancer through its Iowa Cancer Registry, statistics reveal Iowa has the second-highest cancer incidence rate in the nation and is the only state with a rising rate of cancer.

University of Iowa Athletics will reimburse the state for the $2 million taxpayers covered of a $4.2 million deal to settle a discrimination lawsuit 12 former football players filed against UI Athletics and its coaches, UI President Barbara Wilson said Thursday morning.

University of Iowa Athletics’ 2023 “diversity, equity, and inclusion five-year action plan” — which the department will get help operationalizing under terms of a new discrimination lawsuit settlement — lists 20-plus “actionable activities,” like designing “spotlight recognition awards for DE&I teams and departments who exemplify our values.”

Despite State Auditor Rob Sand’s opposition to taxpayers footing nearly half the $4.2 million bill to settle a discrimination lawsuit brought by former Hawkeye football players against the University of Iowa, the State Appeal Board on Monday OK’d the agreement — including the $2 million cost to taxpayers.