Articles Tagged: University of Northern Iowa

Sibling alligators Steve and Wally live within UNI’s Biology Department — one reader wondered how these ‘gators came to call Cedar Falls, Iowa home.

With higher education coming under a more permanent and scrutinizing legislative gaze last session with the establishment of a new standing committee in the Iowa House, chair Taylor Collins promised sustained focus on the state’s colleges and universities when the 91st General Assembly reconvenes on Monday.

Twenty years ago, most undergraduate credit hours at the University of Iowa, Iowa State University, and University of Northern Iowa were taught by tenured or tenure-track faculty -- topping 55 percent at UI, 56 percent at ISU, and 72 percent at UNI.

Guaranteeing four years of flat tuition for incoming freshmen across Iowa’s public universities might offer more financial predictability and stability for students and families, but it could do the opposite for the institutions, according to a recent study.

Where to ring in 2026 across Eastern Iowa

Although well below the numbers that cross the commencement stage every spring, more than 4,100 students at one of Iowa’s public universities have applied to graduate this winter — with ceremonies and celebrations planned throughout the weekend.

Event for Iowa high schools, colleges and universities was Dec. 3-5, 2025, in Des Moines.

Browse, sort or search University of Northern Iowa employee salaries for fiscal year 2025.

A decade after Iowa’s Board of Regents launched its “most comprehensive efficiency study” in a quarter century — which consultants at the time said could save up to $80 million a year — regents this month revived the charge to find new revenues and efficiencies across the universities they oversee.

Years after flagging an impending enrollment cliff — predicted as a result of changing demographics, including a financially-motivated drop in the birth rate during the 2008 Great Recession — U.S. colleges and universities have arrived at the precipice.

Iowa’s Board of Regents has hired a new Des Moines-based government and public affairs firm with ties to Republican heavy-hitters like Gov. Terry Branstad to lobby on behalf of the University of Iowa this upcoming session.

Iowa, Iowa State and the University of Northern Iowa give exhibition performances

Due to last week’s winter storm that dumped nearly 15 inches of snow on the Cedar Falls-Waterloo area and a foot in many other communities, the University of Northern Iowa and Iowa State University are canceling classes Monday “to provide students more time to return to campus from Thanksgiving break.”

An aggravated assault last year was among 13 reported “hate crimes” on the UI campus in 2024 -- a spike from just one in 2023 and six in 2022, according to a new UI 2025 Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act and Fire Safety report being presented to the Board of Regents this week.

Although Chuck Grassley has filed paperwork to run for his eighth re-election to the U.S. Senate in 2028 – when he’ll be 95, pushing him over 100 by the end of the term should he win – UNI is preparing to receive his Senate papers once he finally retires.