Vanessa Miller

Although Theresa Sault-Brill sought $95,000 from the university to remedy what she characterized as “significant lost wages” and “emotional distress,” she signed a $20,000 settlement March 28 and agreed not to pursue or accept any future UI employment.

Facing concerns and objections from pensioners and other entities owed millions in “unsecured” claims, a bankrupt Mercy Iowa City – by means of attorneys burning through thousands by the hour – have negotiated a proposal for how to distribute the hospital’s limited resources.

COGS is crying foul on the fees – which have continued to swell since the union negotiated a half-off scholarship years ago.

“This university head came in and told us that Lia being on the team was non-negotiable. They also told us that if we ever spoke out about it, we would regret it, and we would spend the rest of our lives wishing that we hadn’t.”

Having already admitted students for the next academic year, UnityPoint Health-St. Luke’s Hospital about a month ago surprised current and incoming students by announcing plans to close its 73-year-old Medical Laboratory Scientist program.

Before COVID curbed enrollment in 2020 — hitting the University of Northern Iowa especially hard with a nearly 10 percent drop in total students and 20 percent drop in its graduate and professional count — the last time UNI reported a grad school cohort under 1,300 was 1993.

Iowa State University has agreed to settle and part ways with an employee just two weeks after hiring him to work as a manager in its University Library. The employee told The Gazette he doesn’t blame anyone, says it was a “miscommunication.”

Three months after hiring a leader for its complex integration with Mercy Iowa City, University of Iowa Health Care this week announced she has accepted another job and will be leaving in May -- compelling UIHC to initiate a search for a permanent chief administrator of its new downtown campus.

The University of Iowa chapter of conservative student group Young Americans for Freedom next week will welcome to campus the former teammate of transgender NCAA Division I national champion swimmer Lia Thomas for a talk titled, “Men do not belong in women’s sports.”

With the higher education landscape still challenging small private colleges and universities regionally and nationally, Iowa lawmakers this session proposed a measure to make sure the state has more involvement, interaction, and information about any future closures like Wesleyan’s.

Iowa boasts a higher six-year graduation rate across its public universities -- 73 percent -- than any state in the nation, a meaningful statistic for a region facing growing workforce demands and a higher education landscape facing mounting pressure and skepticism from lawmakers.

Mental health isn’t just a concern among students. Faculty and staff across Iowa and the nation are facing heightened mental health needs too – both personally and professionally, in their role responding to and managing the student distress they see in their classrooms.

In collaboration with Iowa’s 15 community colleges, lawmakers are moving through measure to change — for the first time in 20 years — the way state general aid is distributed across the campuses.

Mediapolis Republican asks how many ‘illegal immigrants’ each campus has

The Iowa State University police administrative adviser who has stepped in three times now as the campus’ interim equal opportunity director and Title IX coordinator has been named sole finalist to assume the job permanently.