Vanessa Miller

Six years after joining Coe College as provost, Pauline O’Loughlin – also serving as interim dean of students, Title IX coordinator, and collaborator on diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts -- is leaving to become provost for another private campus.

Instead of granting the Board of Regents’ ask for an additional $15 million in general education appropriations for the 2023 budget year – bringing the state’s total regents higher-ed allocation to $501 million – the House has suggested keeping gen-ed funding flat while putting $12 million into a new “Iowa Workforce Grant and Incentive Program.”

Many people dream of traveling in retirement. But most envision that happening by plane or by car, involving hotels or at least beds, and affording them the chance to relax and take it easy.

Facing unsettling headwinds like sliding enrollment, surging costs, and shrinking demand for “general education” courses, Iowa State University’s second-largest college is reporting a current deficit of $11.4 million and expectations that shortfall will swell to $15 million in three years.

The University of Iowa will continue to make an annual allocation of $750,000 to Hancher Auditorium’s facilities and maintenance costs, even though it is in the process of weaning the venue off a $1.5 million contribution by 2024 of general education funding used for salaries and benefits.

David McCartney’s route to becoming University of Iowa archivist was circuitous, taking him from Wisconsin, through Anchorage, to Portland and then Maryland in 1994 for a master’s in history and library science.

An Iowa State University “Sport Clubs Review Committee” formed in the wake of a Crew Club accident a year ago that left two students dead has developed eight recommendations aimed at improving club safety — including new mandates expected to reduce the number of “high-risk” clubs.

Another University of Iowa fraternity has been suspended – but this time not by UI officials but by its international headquarters.

After a surprise last-minute withdrawal of all opposition to a new Steindler North Liberty Ambulatory Surgery Center – including from a group of surgeons that previously vowed legal action to halt the endeavor – a state council Monday unanimously granted a certificate the project needs to proceed.

A University of Iowa internal medicine professor and clinician known for her stunning personal account of reversing multiple sclerosis symptoms has landed $2.5 million to further investigate ways diet might improve the quality of life for those with the autoimmune disease.

Iowa’s public universities in recent years have drifted farther from a target of one supervisor per 15 employees to a narrower ratio of one supervisor per nine or 10 subordinates, according to a new Board of Regents report.

After at least six incidents of misconduct since the fall of 2017 – including two this academic year – the University of Iowa has suspended its campus chapter of the popular Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity for at least four academic years.

When Russia last week began an active and violent invasion of Ukraine, Zaloznaya heard from friends and family on both sides in both nations — some fleeing to bomb shelters and terrified for their lives, others defending the invasion as justified and necessary.

The pandemic depleted resources across Iowa’s public university residence hall systems in the last budget year – to the tune of millions – and even though the campuses are back to mostly in-person classes and traditional operations, fallout for the dorms and dining halls continues.

Hospitals, clinics, senior-living communities, long-term care facilities, and in-home services are struggling to retain certified nursing assistants, recruiting them, or even get them to show up for interviews.