Vanessa Miller

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.”

University of Iowa administrators this month learned the U.S. Department of State has canceled the visa of a UI graduate student, and the university’s graduate student union said they believe more students than one have been affected.

Despite its decades of work helping Iowa businesses and manufacturers grow and innovate, the Iowa State University-based Center for Industrial Research and Service learned last week that the federal government is halting its funding — effective immediately — “because it is no longer aligned with the priorities of the administration.”

Several pets were lost and 22 people were displaced by a Wednesday afternoon fire that charred a multifamily apartment building just south of the Coral Ridge Mall.

New U.S. News & World Report graduate school rankings indicate some of the most dominant and prominent programs across Iowa’s public universities remain strong -- or are at least holding steady.

A march by hundreds of people in Iowa City was among more than 1,000 that unfolded across the state, nation, and world Saturday against President Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and “the most brazen power grab in modern history.”

Five bills poised to directly affect Iowa’s public universities survived the second “funnel” deadline of the 2025 Legislative session this week — including one to establish a “Center for Intellectual Freedom” at the University of Iowa and another requiring each campus to create at least one three-year bachelor’s degree program.

In seeking its own batch of records from a bankrupt Mercy Iowa City — which last week won a court order for voluminous documents in its ongoing liquidation battle — the community hospital’s former managing affiliate MercyOne is airing new details about backroom discussions, discord, and deals that precipitated Mercy Iowa City’s downfall.

Of the more than 10,000 University of Iowa faculty and staff who completed a “personal health assessment” in 2024, just over half said they’re “thriving” — while the other nearly half said they’re “struggling.”

After two-plus years fighting a medical negligence lawsuit involving the death of a 75-year-old University of Iowa cancer patient — who was found unresponsive on the floor next to her inpatient bed three days postsurgery — the state has negotiated a settlement to pay the family $1.5 million.