Vanessa Miller

None of the 380 high schools in Iowa are reporting any “completed” FAFSA applications this year simply because they can’t, thanks to rampant delays and what some have called a “smorgasbord of errors” and glitches.

The University of Iowa will keep housing students in its 56-year-old Mayflower Residence Hall — at least for one more year — despite having announced a year ago plans to sell the “last-chosen and first-transferred-from residence hall.”

To kick off its 114-year-old Drake Relays on April 21, the university is holding its 45th annual “beautiful bulldog contest” -- with the winning glowering canine earning a year-long rein as the Drake Relays mascot.

Exemplifying the position’s charge to represent the “diversity of the people and poetry of Iowa,” University of Northern Iowa English Professor Vince Gotera has been named the state’s fifth poet laureate.

A House education subcommittee Monday voted along party lines to advance a proposal that would bring meaningful change to the Board of Regents, the universities they oversee, and the students those institutions serve – including through tuition-hike caps and DEI-related “directives.”

Data has the power to heal, unite, and inspire — or destroy, divide, and devastate — and which of those outcomes materializes depends on the people using the data and their understanding of the people it represents, according to former and first-ever

With a September 2024 trial date looming and both sides sparring over discovery, the Story County District Court in January abruptly dismissed an Iowa State University graduate student’s 2022 lawsuit accusing the school, a fellow student, and two professors of sexual harassment, fostering a hostile work environment, gender discrimination, and retaliation.

Overall, fewer students enrolled in credit-earning courses across Iowa’s 15 community colleges in the full 2023 academic year – even as more students than ever before jointly enrolled in one or more courses while still in high school.

Officer failed to stop at a stop sign, hit vehicle

The University of Iowa has agreed to pay a Johnson County family $2 million to settle a lawsuit involving accusations of negligence in the 2009 delivery of their son, who “showed signs immediately of injury to his right arm” and has failed to regain full mobility.

Lawmakers have proposed a bill that would expand the nine-member Board of Regents to include two “non-voting” members of the Legislature. It also would cap tuition rates across the public universities at 3 percent for undergraduate students.

Responding to 10 diversity, equity, and inclusion-related recommendations Iowa’s Board of Regents issued in November, Iowa State University has disseminated a directive barring anyone on campus from making students, employees, applicants, or visitors “disclose their pronouns.”

Born a slave on a Missouri plantation more than 160 years ago to a mother owned by Moses Carver, George Washington Carver was orphaned during the Civil War and freed with the abolition of slavery in 1865.

More than two years after launching a 24/7 crisis and support line for University of Iowa students, the campus in January expanded that phone, text, and online chat service to faculty, staff, and postdocs – as part of an ongoing UI effort to “prioritize the mental health and well-being of employees.”

As part of the University of Iowa’s takeover of Mercy Iowa City – which became official Wednesday and continued UI Health Care’s accelerating expansion statewide – it’s assuming more than 1,000 of Mercy’s contracts, costing $3.4 million to “cure” amounts the former community hospital owed under those agreements.