Vanessa Miller

Seven former Hawkeye football players accusing the University of Iowa Athletics Department and several coaches of racially-motivated discrimination and harassment have added Seth Wallace, linebackers coach and assistant defensive coordinator, to the list of defendants they’re suing.

The university has conducted more than 600 deep brain stimulation surgeries, according to Greenlee, who’s done many of them. And the hospital recently put out a request for bids from suppliers of deep brain stimulation technology in hopes of keeping its surgical offerings on the cutting edge.

With 35 years of academia behind him, 18 years as a university vice president under his belt, and nearly two decades into his faith walk as a Catholic convert, Todd Olson didn’t want to wait for the shifting higher education landscape to settle before pursuing his dream to become a college president.

Working at off-hours and from off-campus locations is “not the new norm,” according to a final University of Iowa “Future of Work” report

More than 14 years after the University of Iowa initiated plans to build a new home for its internationally-acclaimed Nonfiction Writing Program — a window of time that saw three UI presidents, a flood, and a pandemic — the campus in March began work on the $1.6 million project.

Cornell College economics and business graduates who meet certain GPA standards now have a seamless path to attaining a master’s thanks to a novel partnership between Mount Vernon’s private liberal arts institution and Iowa State University.

Massive losses in international enrollment have decimated the University of Iowa’s need for English as a Second Language services – compelling big cuts.

A University of Iowa administrator said concerned phone calls about the sign came “bright and early,” but he was able to convince them the sign was only an April Fools’ Day prank.

After three attempts in four years to eliminate through legislative action academic tenure across Iowa’s public universities, lawmakers this year didn’t propose such a measure.

For the first time since the Board of Regents in 2016 scolded Iowa’s public universities for their regular and — at times significant — annual room and board rate hikes, Iowa State University and University of Iowa are proposing residence system rate increases for next year reaching 3 percent.

A federal judge Tuesday ruled University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics not only violated state wage laws by paying workers late, but it did so intentionally and now must pay “liquidated damages” to as many as 8,000 current and former UIHC employees.

A diversity-related disagreement among Coe College trustees that started in the fall behind closed doors and bubbled out into the public in subsequent weeks has continued to boil as concerned community members speak out and campus leaders air new grievances, including allegations of “vulgar, sexist, and threatening remarks.”

As competition for domestic and international students surges following pandemic-propelled enrollment losses, U.S. News & World Report’s oft-cited rankings continue to hold weight – including for Iowa’s public universities, which in new 2023 graduate program lists out Tuesday slipped in some areas and made gains in others.

Fewer international students have been enrolling in Iowa’s public universities for years – even before COVID-19 locked down travel and crippled the campus’ global reach – and lawmakers on Monday probed the Board of Regents for an answer to why.

Iowa community colleges are seeing a rebound in enrollment numbers since the pandemic with a growing number of high schoolers earning college credits through joint enrollment program.