Not every member of Iowa’s Board of Regents is supportive of a proposed 3-percent tuition increase for resident undergraduate students next year -- or the process the board used to come up with the number -- prompting regents to commit to a deeper and more inclusive dive into the rates before bringing them back for a final vote in April.
Two decades after closing its Memorial Union Chick-fil-A, Iowa State University is looking to bring it back with a 10-year lease near the food court -- expanding on the two other chain restaurants, Panda Express and Sushi-Do, it offers
The Iowa House on Tuesday passed a bill prohibiting Iowa’s public universities from raising resident undergraduate tuition for the next five years — a move that, if signed into law, could amount to a loss of $186.3 million in revenue across the three campuses.
With enough years now passed to determine how — if at all — the Board of Regents’ test-optional admissions change in 2020 has correlated with student success, new data reveals four-year graduation rates of those who didn’t submit test results to be on par with students who did, but earned lower admission scores.
University of Iowa faculty in African American Studies and Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies are preparing for closure of their programs following a review of “low-enrollment” degrees and majors compelled by the Legislature and Board of Regents.
Months earlier than usual — and with legislation advancing to prohibit tuition increases in one way or another — Iowa’s Board of Regents on Tuesday proposed rate increases for the 2026-27 academic year aimed at addressing “uncertainty surrounding other primary revenue sources.”
A proposal to bar Iowa’s public universities from hiring Chinese citizens on H-1B visas — or any person holding those visas from countries the federal government has designated as a “foreign adversary” — passed out of the House Higher Education Committee this week.
Instead of opening the bachelor’s degree space wide open to Iowa’s 15 community colleges — which presidents and representatives from Iowa’s 27 private colleges and universities have said could force them out of business — lawmakers have updated House Study Bill 533 to limit the type of bachelor’s degrees community colleges could offer, how many they could offer, and the regions where they could be offered.
The University of Iowa is reviewing undergraduate majors with low enrollment – like African American studies and gender, women’s, and sexuality studies – after the Board of Regents last year mandated a comprehensive study of how well campus programs are meeting workforce needs and student demands.
And how do Iowa universities recruit pole vaulters for their track and field teams?
Two months from the launch of the University of Iowa-based Center for Intellectual Freedom’s inaugural classes, its interim director this week shared details about what will be taught with lawmakers who have become increasingly interested and involved in curricular matters across Iowa’s public universities.
With temperatures expected to fall to minus 20 on Friday — and wind chills dipping as low as 35 below zero — the University of Iowa has moved classes online, instructing faculty and staff to teach via Zoom or Teams instead of asking students to show up in person.
More than a decade after the Iowa Legislature rejected a Board of Regents proposal to link state appropriations with performance metrics, lawmakers have revived the concept of “performance-based funding” in a new bill that would direct regents to reevaluate the incentive-driven funding formula.
Among nearly two dozen higher education-related study bills dropped in the first week of the new legislative session is one looking to reshape the Board of Regents — which for more than a century has governed Iowa’s three public universities.
Sibling alligators Steve and Wally live within UNI’s Biology Department — one reader wondered how these ‘gators came to call Cedar Falls, Iowa home.
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