Articles Tagged: University of Iowa

Nearly a year after the Board of Regents approved spending another $10 million to $15 million to replace dozens of damaged or at-risk windows in the University of Iowa’s $392.7 million Stead Family Children’s Hospital, work has yet to begin.

As the Board of Regents this week debuts new free speech training for students, faculty and staff at Iowa’s public universities, a Des Moines-area attorney is saying they have “a lot of work to do” after how University of Iowa faculty handled a student who expressed his views on “homosexual conduct.”

In line with a new state law and Board of Regents policy, Iowa’s public universities are rolling out a mandatory free speech training program Wednesday that all students, faculty and staff must complete by the end of the spring semester.

More than a year after 13 former Hawkeye football players filed a lawsuit accusing some University of Iowa athletics staff of racially motivated discrimination and harassment, attorneys are accusing UI of “persistent and intentional subversion” and delay tactics and asking a judge to intervene.

Since 1847, the University of Iowa has broken barriers and blazed new trails as a beacon for learning, creativity, and collaboration. Join university archivist and storyteller David McCartney and leading experts from multiple fields to uncover the hidden stories that define Iowa.

For the first time since launching in fall 2019, the University of Iowa’s new online Master of Business Administration degree has made the U.S. News & World Report’s rankings for “best online MBA programs.”

When the University of Iowa celebrates its 175th anniversary next month, it plans to highlight three areas in which faculty have made transformational differences across the state, nation, and world: writing, space discovery and medicine.

The state public health department estimates that deaths in Iowa due to fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, rose from 31 percent of all overdoses in 2016 to 87 percent in 2021.

In a new era allowing college athletes to receive education-related compensation and make money off their name, image, and likeness, an Iowa lawmaker is looking to empower the Board of Regents to “fix the compensation for student athletes” at its public universities.

The University of Iowa will regild the dome of the Old Capitol this summer after failure of gold leaf installed in 2003.

With COVID cases surging in Iowa as students return to its public universities for the spring semester, the University of Iowa graduate student union is urging members to move all courses they’re teaching online for the first two weeks – despite UI policy barring such action without permission.

In a Monday letter to “Hawkeye parents,” University of Iowa Head Football Coach Kirk Ferentz reframed and rephrased his recent decision to “dissolve” an alumni advisory committee created in 2020 following allegations his program fostered a culture of racism and bullying.

The University of Iowa is seeking help ensuring compliance with other states’ labor and payroll laws and practices for employees working outside Iowa — as the campus approves more remote-work arrangements amid COVID-propelled changes.

Mary Sue Coleman was the first female president at the University of Iowa, serving from 1995 to 2002. She was tapped to be the interim president of the University of Michigan after the president there was fired in a scandal late Saturday.

A year and a half after the University of Iowa Athletics Department formed an alumni advisory committee in the wake of players alleging the football program fostered a culture of racism and bullying, head coach Kirk Ferentz on Tuesday abruptly dissolved the volunteer group following a contentious meeting.