Articles Tagged: University of Iowa

Following campus outcry and accusations it’s violating state code, the Iowa Board of Regents has delayed until next month its final vote on a new policy to bar “diversity, equity, and inclusion” and “critical race theory” requirements for majors, minors, or certificates.

University of Iowa Health Care is paying a total of $3.5 million to settle two malpractice lawsuits — including one involving a 63-year-old Dubuque man who died in the operating room during a surgery to repair his broken leg.

Longtime University of Iowa professor and interim College of Law dean Todd Pettys will continue leading the college for the next two years following a failed national search that he co-chaired last year.

Accusing the Board of Regents of violating its own “Freedom of Expression” policy, the University of Northern Iowa’s United Faculty union this week slammed a proposed policy change that would bar DEI and CRT course requirements across Iowa’s public university system.

A few months after 75-year-old Steindler Orthopedic Clinic in March vacated its longtime home in east Iowa City for a new 100,000-square-foot clinic and surgery center in North Liberty, University of Iowa Health Care is eyeing Steindler’s old digs as a new home for its Department of Family and Community Medicine.

On the heels of a Legislative session replete with proposals to direct what can and cannot be taught across Iowa’s public universities — specifically related to diversity topics and civics education — the Board of Regents next week will consider a new policy barring “diversity, equity, and inclusion” and “critical race theory” requirements.

For the first time since airing in 2022 plans to build a new 842,000-square-foot inpatient tower, University of Iowa Health Care has brought the project before the Board of Regents for approval to spend $72.5 million on “early work.”

When the University of Iowa created Chuck Xander’s position two years ago, he was the first veterans-embedded counselor on a university or college campus in Iowa, the first in the Big Ten, and one of the first dedicated to military-connected students in the nation. Since then, he’s held more than 550 therapy sessions with about 100 military and veteran students

While University of Iowa officials declined to share details of how many grants and contracts have been terminated across campus, U.S. Health and Human Services and NSF disclosures indicate millions of UI research funding has been lost.

An underdog is being celebrated with a new title more than 25 years after he was created to unite Center Point and Urbana. Here’s how Stormin’ Normin pulled it off.

As white smoke poured from the Sistine Chapel chimney at 6:08 p.m. May 8 in Vatican City, University of Iowa Catholic Studies Chair Kristy Nabhan-Warren – although 5,000 miles from the action – felt uniquely positioned to understand its meaning and potential implications in today’s conflicted world of both increasing interconnectedness and growing division.

With about 1,391 new cancers diagnosed each year, Linn County has the 38th highest rate of new cancers among Iowa’s 99 counties, and the eighth highest rate among the 21 metro counties in the state.

With its already-sprawling campus continuing to grow both in Iowa City and across the region and state, University of Iowa Health Care has created a new administrative position for a “physician executive.”

The University of Iowa’s Iowa Nurse Innovators Program connects nurses to the resources and expertise they need to turn workarounds into specially crafted, even marketable, solutions. With early successes from UIHC nurses currently getting off the ground, the program is working to reach health care professionals across the state.

The University of Iowa has agreed to retroactively reinstate a distinguished professorship and thousands that came with it for a faculty member who says the state — through an error-riddled audit in 2017 — wrongfully accused him of abusing his position.