Vanessa Miller

One week after a large California investment firm bought ACT Inc. – morphing the longtime Iowa City-based nonprofit testing company into a for-profit enterprise – a separate nonprofit organization the new ACT conglomerate promised to maintain retained the Iowa City campus and now is selling it.

Long before Harold Bradley Jr. was a Hawkeye football star, U.S. marine, NFL player, civil rights activist, teacher, husband, father, and internationally-esteemed artist, producer, actor and musician, he was born on Oct. 13, 1929 in Chicago – just days before the stock market crash that snowballed into the Great Depression.

Thousands pick up degrees this week at universities and colleges

“When we came together, it was really a conversation to say – are there ways, given our size, that we could be more agile, more responsive to the needs of our community partners, and build out a series of opportunities that we think improve access and affordability for students going forward?”

A week after a Story County judge denied Iowa State University’s request the court dismiss a lawsuit from the family of a student who died three years ago in a crew club accident, the parties have agreed to settle the case — negating the need for a trial.

A first peek at proposed tuition increases for Iowa’s public universities — made public Monday — indicates resident undergraduate students at the University of Iowa and Iowa State University could pay 3 percent more next fall, while University of Northern Iowa in-state undergrads could pay 2 percent more.

Within 30 minutes of a group of pro-Palestinian protesters setting up a small encampment at the University of Iowa’s Hubbard Park just after 7 a.m. Monday morning, UI police were on scene ordering them to leave or be arrested.

During the first Herky on Parade in 2004, Archie wasn’t yet born. For the second in 2014, he was just a toddler — but still has some memories. And for the third iteration, Archie grabbed a paint brush.

Back in mid-March — more than a month before the Iowa Legislature passed a bill imposing on Iowa’s public universities sweeping diversity, equity, and inclusion restrictions that go beyond directives from their governing Board of Regents — Republican lawmakers sought a DEI update from the campuses.

Far from this week’s dramatic scenes of baton-wielding police clad in riot gear and bulletproof vests clashing with pro-Palestinian protesters on college campuses coast to coast — a diverse combination of Iowa City students and residents on Friday mingled peacefully on the University of Iowa Pentacrest lawn.

Using military-style code words like Alfa, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, and Foxtrot for team names -- each group was assigned one yellow bin of drills and screws, along with a list of locations and instructions, aimed at executing the group’s larger mission: to distribute and install 100 6-foot-tall Herky statues across nearly as many locations in a 10-mile radius under the cover of night.

The 20th anniversary of Herky on Parade features 100 statues, including a handful grouped into a “G.O.A.T series” – like one in a “22” jersey named “From the Logo Herky” and another wearing Rudis shoes labeled “Yoda.”

A former faculty adviser and a former coach for the embattled Iowa State University crew club — which three years ago came under scrutiny after two students drowned during a club activity — are “immune from personal liability” and have been dropped from a lawsuit scheduled for trial next week.

Seven years after a Cedar Rapids-based contractor first started feuding with the University of Iowa over its work on the towering Stead Family Children’s Hospital, Iowa’s high court has weighed in and sided with the university on part of its appeal — reversing an order to pay Modern Piping another $12.8 million.

In response to 10 directives the Board of Regents handed down in the fall to curtail diversity, equity, and inclusion spending and programming across its public universities, presidents of all three campuses on Thursday shared significant changes underway – including the permanent closure of Iowa State University’s Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion office.