Articles Tagged: University of Northern Iowa

Mediapolis Republican asks how many ‘illegal immigrants’ each campus has

According to a national public-university assessment on what increasingly is referred to in critical terms like “administrative bloat,” Iowa essentially is tied with Hawaii for spending the least on administrators, according to a new Board of Regents report.

Should the state adopt into law a bill that passed the Iowa House this week aiming to restructure the Board of Regents and its powers while also capping tuition costs and diversity programming, Iowa’s public universities could take a financial hit in the millions.

Adding to its list of athletics projects, the University of Northern Iowa on Wednesday received Board of Regents permission to start planning a 22,000-square-foot $10 million “court practice facility“ to be shared between men’s and women’s basketball and volleyball.

University of Northern Iowa’s Patricia A. Tomson Center for Violence Prevention -- which for more than a decade has been working to address violence through education, training, engagement and collaboration -- on March 7 will host a free screening of the documentary, “This is Where I Learned Not to Sleep.”

Survey asks respondents if they feel comfortable expressing their opinions on and off campus and on social media; if they seek out and listen to people with differing views; if they feel other university faculty and staff do; and if they feel the university provides an environment for free speech.

None of the 380 high schools in Iowa are reporting any “completed” FAFSA applications this year simply because they can’t, thanks to rampant delays and what some have called a “smorgasbord of errors” and glitches.

Exemplifying the position’s charge to represent the “diversity of the people and poetry of Iowa,” University of Northern Iowa English Professor Vince Gotera has been named the state’s fifth poet laureate.

A former University of Northern Iowa student faces charges of threatening a dean and her husband and threatening to shoot a university staff member.

Democrats’ proposal would freeze tuition, while Republicans would cap tuition increases for undergrads

Responding to 10 diversity, equity, and inclusion-related recommendations Iowa’s Board of Regents issued in November, Iowa State University has disseminated a directive barring anyone on campus from making students, employees, applicants, or visitors “disclose their pronouns.”

Even as “dangerously cold temperatures” have pushed all three of Iowa’s public universities

Given wind chills in Johnson County could plummet below negative-35 degrees Tuesday, the University of Iowa on Friday announced it’s not holding in-person classes on what was scheduled to be the first day of the spring semester.

Instead of the nearly $40 million Legislative appropriations increase Iowa’s Board of Regents wanted in the next budget year, Gov. Kim Reynolds has recommended a $12.3 million bump — amounting to a 2.5 percent increase for each of Iowa’s public universities.

Speaker of the Iowa House Pat Grassley has served in the Legislature nearly 18 years and has never — over that span — seen it undertake a broad review of “how we deliver higher education.”