Vanessa Miller

“Homecoming is an institution-wide event that expands beyond the walls of campus out into the greater Iowa City community,” UI senior Matt McDonnell told The Gazette, as executive director of the Iowa Homecoming Council.

This year’s Iowa Ideas conference will also touch on that growing impetus to “meet the needs of students” with a session asking what those needs are – including in the mental health realm.

Without explanation — after a long day in attorney offices in downtown Chicago — Mercy Iowa City at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday announced the historic auction for its assets as part Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings would be continued “to a later date.”

A sale for the assets of Iowa City’s 150-year-old Mercy Hospital was underway in Chicago on Wednesday afternoon — although details about bidders and results weren’t immediately made public.

Mercy Iowa City has received at least one bid to compete with the University of Iowa’s $20 million offer to purchase substantially all its assets as part of the hospital’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy — triggering an auction on Wednesday morning in Chicago.

The Muscatine County family that last year sued Iowa City-based ENT Medical Services and one of its otolaryngologists after a 2-year-old died following a routine procedure to put tubes in his ears have added a third defendant to its lawsuit: the State of Iowa – for its oversight of the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.

The state produced a list of high-demand jobs after lawmakers created a new Iowa Workforce Grant and Incentive Program that set aside $6.5 million to motivate students across Iowa’s public universities to fill high-demand jobs.

In the days after Mercy Iowa City filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, five staffing agencies contracted to supply the community hospital with temporary health care workers – like nurses – began pulling them them before the expiration of their contracts, threatening Mercy’s “ability to continue staffing the inpatient units.”

Andrea Flinn aims to develop educational tools for learning the dialect – spoken in the Levant geographical area of the Middle East that includes Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and Israel – in hopes of improving humanitarian aid to the region and helping immigrants settle and relocate.

Before approving its state appropriations request in advance of the upcoming Legislative session, Iowa’s Board of Regents on Thursday tacked on another $1 million specifically for “extended mental health resources at our three regent universities.”

Dozens of University of Iowa graduate students and supporters shut down the Board of Regents meeting Wednesday afternoon with a raucous protest, during which they demanded a 25-percent “emergency” pay raise.

Two years after Iowa’s Board of Regents gave the University of Iowa permission to build a new 469,000-square-foot hospital on 60 acres of vacant land in North Liberty, regents on Wednesday donned hard hats to tour the highly-technical steel and concrete structure that has emerged from the visionary renderings they first OK’d in September 2021.

As part of Iowa State University’s goal to trim $15 million from its College of Liberal Arts and Sciences by 2025 — in response to waning enrollment, swelling expenses, and other higher education headwinds — the campus last year offered a retirement incentive that has persuaded 17 participants to leave.

Taking a cue from last year’s Legislature, Iowa’s public universities for the upcoming session have made significant “special purpose” funding requests that would focus on rural health care, rural development and teacher recruitment.

Bondholders demand the foundation ‘effectively empty the coffers’