Vanessa Miller

Despite Gov. Kim Reynold’s proposal at the start of this legislative session to increase aid to Iowa’s three public universities and its 15 community colleges, a budget compromise she’s reached with Senate Republicans includes no general education bump for the higher education institutions.

Although a growing number of Big Ten faculty senates have passed or endorsed a “mutual defense compact” resolution opposing “escalating politically motivated actions” from the Trump administration, the University of Iowa Faculty Senate has not and does not have it on an upcoming agenda to consider.

Just three days after the filing of a complaint seeking court intervention in the termination of four University of Iowa international students’ F-1 status, a U.S. district judge Thursday granted a temporary restraining order against the government.

In response to Board of Regents directives and proposed legislation, Iowa State University is transitioning its “Cyclones Civics” initiative into an official center focused on closing civics-related knowledge gaps on things like founding documents, functions of government, principles of American democracy, and “the nature of civil liberties.”

A crowd of angry students and community members armed with signs, chants, and prepared comments convened Wednesday inside the Iowa Board of Regents meeting to oppose its anti-DEI actions and other politically-aligned impositions on the public universities.

The Board of Regents this week is getting ahead of proposed legislation this session by making a handful of policy changes in advance of the bills’ passage — including limiting annual tuition increases for resident in-state students going forward.

Four University of Iowa international students admitted to the United States on F-1 student visas are suing the Department of Homeland Security, its Secretary Kristi Noem, and ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons for terminating their statuses “without legal justification or explanation.”

University of Iowa Health Care is looking to spend tens of millions over the next year to expand its footprint across the region and state -- including with a new family medicine clinic in Tiffin, just a few miles from where UIHC is opening a new 469,060-square-foot hospital in neighboring North Liberty next week.

Swapping his suit and tie for blue jeans, boots and a zip-up gray sweater matching his trimmed moustache and wavy hair, former Mercy Medical Center President and CEO Tim Charles earlier this month stood before a Coe College class to share his expertise on “health and society.”

Iowa’s 15 community colleges in 2024 made year-over-year enrollment gains in 2024 thanks largely to record joint enrollment by high school students wanting to earn community college credit at no cost to them or their families.

Following vocal criticism of an initial revision to Iowa’s science education standards that stripped away phrases like “climate change” and “biological evolution” from what students should learn throughout their K-12 education, a second draft has returned references to those terms.

In-state undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Iowa and Iowa State University would see a 3-percent tuition increase next fall under a proposal going before the Board of Regents next week.

Days after the University of Iowa confirmed the U.S. Department of State had canceled the visa of at least one graduate student, a campus union is reporting five UI international students now have had visas revoked.

Two years after several of Iowa’s small private universities asked Gov. Kim Reynolds for $12 million each from the state’s share of pandemic relief funds “to help prepare rural Iowa for a brighter economic future” — and four months after Iowa’s deadline for obligating the money — campus officials say they never heard back.

Promising groundbreaking innovation and the highest quality care this region has to offer – University of Iowa Health Care on Friday kicked off a weekend introducing its new orthopedics and sports medicine hospital to a booming North Liberty with lawmakers, regents, community leaders, and university executives touring the “gorgeous new cutting-edge facility.”