Four years after the University of Iowa began vehemently denying allegations it discriminated against a student organization the campus deregistered for barring an openly-gay member from becoming a leader, the state will pay the law firm representing the student group nearly $2 million.
Among a handful of key areas on which the University of Iowa is focused as its heads into a post-pandemic future facing challenges old and new is mental health and supporting student well-being, University of Iowa President Barbara Wilson told a group of community members Thursday.
Since the Board of Regents three weeks ago directed its public universities to make COVID “vaccination verification and accommodation systems available to all campus employees on a voluntary basis,” 3,426 workers have confirmed they’re vaccinated.
A 56-year-old Iowa City man is facing misdemeanor assault charges after authorities and University of Iowa officials say he hit two campus employees “in the back of the head, with no justification” on Monday morning.
A 41-year-old Colorado woman accused of forging COVID-positive documents from the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics to get out of a Colorado court hearing now is facing formal charges out of Boulder County related to the Iowa-related allegations.
Nye will appear in a livestreamed event with elementary students from throughout the Iowa City Community School District and across the state. Any elementary classroom, virtual program or home-school program in Iowa can register to attend.
Though total enrollment across Iowa’s public universities has been sliding for the last five years — including big drops from COVID since 2019 — the University of Iowa is predicting a 4-percent one-year jump next fall and 6-percent bump by 2026, according to new data UI provided to lawmakers.
With Iowa eager to put COVID in the rear view mirror, Board of Regents President Mike Richards in May lifted the state of emergency he imposed in March 2020 and mandated Iowa’s public universities return to pre-pandemic operations.
Like other award recipients from the upended 2020-21 term, Dizdarevic said she’s glad to get any experience at all through an esteemed Fulbright program – the world’s largest international exchange program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and celebrating its 75th anniversary in 2021.
Col. Craig Andrle, commander of the 388th Fighter Wing based at Hill Air Force Base in Utah, will lead a four-ship flyover of F-35A Lightning II’s before Saturday’s Iowa vs. Minnesota football game.
Protests that enveloped the University of Iowa’s Phi Gamma Delta fraternity this fall caused more than $200,000 in damage to the chapter house and displaced 28 members for the semester.
Although the retreat from daylight saving time might have worn off by Nov. 19, anyone still riding that extra hour into predawn wakefulness might get to see this month’s beaver moon turn “blood” red when North American gets a front-row seat for the century’s longest lunar eclipse.
The University of Iowa-based State Hygienic Laboratory – which for the last nearly two years has been on the front lines of Iowa’s COVID response – hasn’t been consistently charging customers or collecting documentation, leaving on the table as much as $1.1 million, according to a recent audit.
A national nonprofit civil-liberties group is calling on the University of Iowa College of Law to remove or revise a new question it added to faculty evaluation forms asking how the professors have improved their law school’s “diversity, equity, and inclusion” — calling those terms “broad,” “subjective,” and “political.”
Beth Livingston, assistant professor of management and entrepreneurship at the University of Iowa’s Tippie College of Business, is one of a team of investigators that’s among the first to look at how artificial intelligence could affect the future of clerical work.
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