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.
At age 41, Melissa Febos today is an accomplished author, associate professor of English, and member of the esteemed master of fine arts faculty with the acclaimed UI non-fiction writing program.
From a young age, inquiry drove Don Gurnett to discovery. He’s recounted for The Gazette memories walking the UI campus as a teenage freshman with his eyes heavenward in awe of Sputnik, the novel Russian satellite fueling the international space race.
The riverbank celebration that was postponed in 2020 and rescheduled for August 2022 will now be canceled altogether. The event was meant to celebrate the Iowa River and mark the 100th anniversary of the University of Iowa’s world-renowned IIHR — Hydroscience & Engineering program.
University of Iowa officials on Wednesday disclosed plans over next decade to buy Old Capitol Town Center, sell its 109-year-old downtown Jefferson Building, modernize its memorial union, replace its IMU parking ramp, and upgrade its athletics facilities.
Iowa’s Board of Regents on Wednesday announced no changes to its campus guidance or operations for the upcoming spring semester, scheduled to begin Jan. 18.
Following a vast and swift trend sweeping four-year colleges and universities nationally, the Iowa Board of Regents is moving to permanently eliminate the mandate that applicants to their public universities submit either SAT or ACT scores.
The State of Iowa has agreed to pay the former director of a University of Iowa program for students with disabilities $325,000 to settle her lawsuit accusing the institution and Board of Regents of age and gender discrimination and of violating her civil rights for equal pay.
Iowa’s public universities for years have requested legislative funding increases — promising to commit the extra tens of millions they sought to student aid, mental health, and more recently hybrid learning in an age of COVID-19 — but the asks have fallen flat.
Nearly one year after University of Iowa College of Dentistry Dean David Johnsen announced plans to leave following an uproar over his handling of free speech issues, the campus has named University of Illinois Chicago dentistry dean Clark Stanford as his permanent replacement.
The University of Iowa has until June 30, 2023 to complete a federally-funded $9.2 million expansion of its State Hygienic Lab, which has served Iowa’s public health needs for more than a century and processed about 1.6 million COVID specimens over the last nearly two years.
A lot of men who end up in University of Iowa urologist Amy Pearlman’s office are in their 30s, 40s, or 50s and are having symptoms. They’re fatigued. They can’t get or hold an erection. They have pain. Or a lump. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
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