Vanessa Miller

Iowa State University has suspended its Men’s Cyclone Hockey Club following allegations of hazing, and administrators have launched an investigation into those accusations as well as the club’s finances, organizational structure, and oversight.

Two weeks after Iowa State University resigned from the esteemed Association of American Universities, and six years since the campus last updated its list of 10 comparison land-grant universities, faculty are asking whether ISU should re-evaluate who it considers its peers.

Seven weeks after the state approved construction of a new $19.2 million Steindler North Liberty Ambulatory Surgery Center near the booming I-380 and Forevergreen Road corridor, the affiliated Steindler Orthopedic Clinic on April 25 sold its Iowa City home base for $11 million.

Iowa State last week abdicated its AAU bragging rights by abruptly resigning from the esteemed invite-only collective of North America’s top research universities – leaving faculty, staff, students, lawmakers, and the wider public asking why and what it means.

Several petitions are circulating through the Iowa State University community opposing changes to its College of Liberal Arts and Sciences – specifically its history department – after administrators earlier this year announced $15 million in cuts by the 2026 budget year.

The family of a 2-year-old who died last year after a routine procedure to place tubes in his ears and remove his adenoids is suing an Iowa City physician for negligence by – among other things – allowing a University of Iowa medical resident to perform the surgery without the patient’s consent.

The Iowa state auditor has found $17,146.65 in misused or missing donations and gifts meant for University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics patients and families — largely those battling cancer — and evidence a former administrative specialist was behind the misuse.

Even as total enrollment across Iowa’s public, private, and community colleges and universities fell in fall 2021, Iowa’s institutes of higher education this academic year are educating more students who identify as a minority than last year – at a combined 39,120.

64 years after joining the prestigious Association of American Universities, Iowa State University on Thursday announced it’s leaving the group.

A third of degree-seeking students recently polled by Gallup and the Lumina Foundation said they considered dropping out in the last six months – largely due to “emotional stress” – capturing the scope and gravity of mental health needs facing today’s college students, including those in Iowa.

With gas prices still hovering around record levels – and Iowa’s college and university campuses facing a budgetary quandary in the form of inflation – Kirkwood Community College is rolling out a pilot summer program to close its campus offices on Fridays.

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