Articles Tagged: University of Iowa

Iowa’s Board of Regents on Thursday unanimously approved, without discussion, a request for $20.3 million more in state funding for the next budget year, including the first increase in five years for University of Iowa special purpose units like the State Hygienic Lab and the Iowa Flood Center.

University of Iowa Health Care, at the same time its moving swiftly to erect a $395 million 469,000-square-foot campus on a 60-acre site in North Liberty, is looking to expand its footprint in Coralville near its popular Iowa River Landing clinic.

University of Iowa administrators since August 2020 have had more than a dozen interactions about violations at the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity — which in recent weeks has been at the center of campus protests demanding its removal from campus. But none of those interactions have involved allegations of sexual violence.

How many freshmen will Iowa universities see this fall? It’s hard to tell, given the enrollment losses last year because of COVID-19 and the pandemic’s impact on family finances.

Reversing some of its losses in recent years, the University of Iowa in the “2022 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges” rankings out today made among one of the biggest gains on the publication’s oft-touted national university list.

An Illinois man faces a series of charges, including eluding police and drunken-driving, after police allege he crashed his car onto the lawn of the University of Iowa President’s Residence early Saturday after a short high-speed chase.

Fans at this weekend’s Cy-Hawk game won’t witness a repeat of the band fiasco that two years ago left some members injured, prompted police investigations and nearly nixed future games.

Among 20 pages of policy changes the Board of Regents will consider next week is one explicitly giving the board president power to remove someone from a meeting if that person “engages in behavior that materially interferes with the board’s ability to conduct the meeting.”

Carson King, the security-guard-turned-philanthropist whose sign went viral in 2019, has been building his charity while remaining a “regular working guy.”

Total enrollment across all three of Iowa’s public universities dropped again this fall, according to new numbers made public Thursday showing a continued slide that began in fall 2017 and worsened last year when COVID-19 upended the higher education experience.

Iowa’s Board of Regents – denied any state funding increase for its public universities in the last legislative session – is requesting a $15 million bump to its higher education appropriations for the next budget year.

With little discussion and much praise for the project – which struggled to get the state go-ahead it needs – Iowa’s Board of Regents on Tuesday unanimously approved construction on a new $395 million University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics site in North Liberty to start as soon as later this month.

Hawkeye football being back also meant fans were grilling, playing lawn games and shopping at Melrose Avenue vendors.

After 46 years of coffee service from men and women with disabilities – starting with Bill Sackter in 1975 – the University of Iowa’s “Will Bill’s Coffee Shop” has brewed its final cup.

The Board of Regents has called a special meeting for next week to consider giving the go-ahead to start construction.