Vanessa Miller

For the fourth straight year, University of Iowa Athletics in 2025 set a new revenue record of $153.2 million — while athletics revenue at Iowa State University and University of Northern Iowa declined, leaving UNI with a nearly $3 million deficit.

Less than an hour after reporting gunshots fired near the University of Iowa campus and urging the public to “shelter in place,” the Iowa City Police Department characterized the incident as “isolated” and that the public can “resume normal activity.”

Ames native and Iowa State University graduate David Cook — the second finalist to succeed outgoing ISU President Wendy Wintersteen — on Thursday told a campus crowd during a public forum that he wasn’t looking to leave his post as president of North Dakota State University.

In taking questions from the campus-based audience Wednesday during a public forum, Iowa State University presidential finalist Benjamin Houlton fielded one referencing the recent firing of an ISU employee for comments she posted on social media about Charlie Kirk’s killing.

Proposed bylaws for the University of Iowa’s new legislature-mandated Center for Intellectual Freedom require its 26-member advisory council to meet at least once a semester — plus any special meetings the chair or executive committee call.

The second of two finalists to succeed Iowa State University President Wendy Wintersteen has been identified as David Cook, an Ames native and Iowa State alum who’s been serving as the 15th president of North Dakota State University since 2022.

Two months after delaying the timeline of its new $2 billion inpatient tower, citing federal health care-related funding cuts, University of Iowa Health Care next week will ask the Board of Regents to approve $45.5 million in facilities upgrades across its three inpatient hospital campuses.

The first of two finalists to succeed Iowa State University President Wendy Wintersteen is Benjamin Houlton, dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University, where he holds rank as an ecology and evolutionary biology professor and co-chairs a “Climate Initiative” aimed at “mobilizing practical climate change solutions.”

As the University of Iowa winds down operations at the 485-acre Macbride Nature Recreation Area — having decided to terminate its 66-year lease of the property and with it the discovery, innovation, and exploration of the land that’s captivated elementary students to UI professors for decades — officials are notifying programs using the facility about next steps, including when they need to be out.

A second of four finalists for the Iowa State University president post has dropped out of contention, days after another candidate earlier this week declined to continue with the process.

In line with legislation requiring Iowa’s public universities to start offering shorter paths to a degree — launching students into the workforce more quickly — the University of Northern Iowa this month debuted a new elementary education “degree in 3.”

Iowa’s Board of Regents for the first time is seeking a firm, rather than a single person, to serve as its legislative liaison and state relations representative for the University of Iowa in dealings with the Legislature and executive branch.

One of the four finalists a search committee selected to become its next Iowa State University president has decided not to continue with the public portion of the interview process -- leaving just three on track to visit campus next week.

With a growing chorus of constituents urging Iowa’s Board of Regents to either sign or reject the Trump Administration’s proposed “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” a board spokesman confirmed, “We are reviewing the compact.”

A Johnson County district judge Friday ordered the state to stop removing historic material from the 168-year-old State Historical Society’s Iowa City research facility that it unexpectedly decided to close without warning or public discussion.