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Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52401
Vanessa Miller
I’ve covered lots of beats over my decades as a reporter, and one reason I really enjoy higher education is because it touches on them all. One day I’m writing about science and interviewing University of Iowa NASA researchers, the next I’m writing about health care, or agriculture, or a new Iowa State-supported business, or athletic budgets, or criminal justice, or the Legislature and potential bills affecting Iowa’s university and college campuses. I also love that I get to investigate and dig deep on some stories, report hard news, and then also share incredible and sometimes harrowing tales of survival or discovery. When I’m not working, I’m playing with my kids or following them around to wrestling tournaments. Get the news delivered right to your inbox.
Latest Articles by Vanessa Miller
News Aug. 18, 2014 6:37 pm4141d ago
Weather conditions that have greeted, or perhaps accosted, activists who began marching from coast to coast earlier this year are …
News Aug. 17, 2014 9:30 pm4142d ago
IOWA CITY – Save for a few minor landscape repairs, the University of Iowa has finished cleaning up from this …
News Aug. 14, 2014 1:00 am4146d ago
It’s not like Kaylee Gattone didn’t already know about the University of Iowa. Her brother attended and talked a lot …
Education Aug. 11, 2014 6:07 pm4148d ago
IOWA CITY – Iowa State University, among other equity-geared initiatives, is hiring a chief diversity officer based on concerns and …
News Aug. 11, 2014 1:10 pm4148d ago
Despite the name and mission of a Board of Regents-created subcommittee formed to oversee a systemwide ‘Transparent, Inclusive, Efficiency Review” …
Education Aug. 6, 2014 6:00 pm4153d ago
A consulting firm hired to conduct an efficiency review of Iowa’s public universities will start providing receipts for expenses including …
Education Aug. 5, 2014 6:30 pm4154d ago
Suggestions from a consultant on how to improve purchasing practices at Iowa’s three universities could result in a cumulative total …
Education Aug. 5, 2014 5:45 pm4154d ago
Enrollment at several universities and colleges across Eastern Iowa and the state is shaping up to set records this fall, …
News Aug. 5, 2014 11:08 am4154d ago
A consulting firm hired in March to conduct an efficiency review of Iowa’s public universities has billed the institutions $1.62 …
News Aug. 4, 2014 6:56 pm4155d ago
A University of Iowa football season ticket promotion offering free tuition to five grand-prize winners has gotten approval to proceed …
News Aug. 4, 2014 5:51 pm4155d ago
The University of Iowa ‘has been dethroned,’ as one student put it, and officials say that’s a good thing. The …
News Aug. 3, 2014 5:11 pm4156d ago
The Board of Regents in the coming year will reassess a scoring system it enacted five years ago to gauge …
News Aug. 1, 2014 5:12 pm4158d ago
Both the University of Iowa and Iowa State University received more grants, contracts and gifts from government, corporate and private …
News Jul. 31, 2014 1:00 am4160d ago
Here’s the scenario. You’re at a college party, and you see a guy take a female student a drink — …
News Jul. 30, 2014 1:00 am4161d ago
The Board of Regents next week is expected to approve the 2015 budgets for its three public universities, marking the …

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