Nearly four years after the University of Iowa announced plans to raze its nearly 60-year-old University Athletic Club and replace it with a hotel, administrators are seeking approval to enter into a new land-lease deal that — in its first phase — would erect a four-story, 110-unit residential complex by Finkbine Golf Course.
When COVID-19-19 shuttered schools last spring, a key factor in getting high school seniors to college — FAFSAs — flatlined. Where “Free Application for Federal Student Aid” filings had been rising in Iowa, the pandemic’s onset halted that progress and in the year since reversed some of the gains.
Campuswide mask mandates lifted; vaccines encouraged but not required
A federal judge has certified as class-action a lawsuit a group of University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics employees – including nurses and custodians – filed two years ago accusing their employer of, among other things, failing to pay wages and overtime on time.
Not only have Iowa lawmakers rejected a Board of Regents request to restore the $8 million they cut last summer in response to COVID-19, the Republican-led Senate this week approved a $1 billion education budget that excludes any funding increase at all for Iowa’s public universities.
Incoming rules around name, image and likeness leads to new recruiting battles, emergence of industry
The celebration was the first of its kind held at Kinnick Stadium.
Although the University of Iowa’s first-ever graduation celebration inside historic Kinnick Stadium on Sunday was not an official commencement ceremony, there were plenty of caps and gowns.
None of the University of Iowa’s contracted football coaches — including head coach Kirk Ferentz — participated in voluntary salary reductions that UI Athletics announced last summer in light of massive COVID-compelled losses that officials cited weeks later in justifying their decision to cut four UI sports.
University of Iowa Health Care on Thursday officially expanded its COVID-vaccination effort to the newly-approved tweens and early teens, administering first shots to the 12-15 age group at a clinic in its Iowa River Landing location.
The public will be able to watch the trial of the man charged with killing University of Iowa student Mollie …
Bruce Harreld is scheduled to speak at Kinnick celebration May 16.
Unanimously-backed bill bakes into law changes regents made or vow to
Hiring of provost, vice president and diversity leader made without seeking other candidates
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