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Professor Anne Sand discusses her low wages during the "We Are the Majority" Protest on the Pentacrest on Wednesday, April 18, 2018. Faculty members and students marched for nontenured faculty's rights and handed a petition with nearly 200 signatures to the President's Office with demands from professors for better wages and health care. (Katie Goodale/The Daily Iowan)

Nontenured faculty demand fair treatment from UI

Elianna Novitch, [email protected] • April 18, 2018
Nontenured faculty of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences gathered on the Pentacrest and delivered a list of demands to the UI administration on Wednesday. The nontenured faculty are campaigning for union rights and representation. 
FILE - Regent Larry McKibben speaks during a state Board of Regents meeting in the IMU Main Lounge on Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017. The regents provided a summary of the state's funding situation and discussed future steps they would take to make a predictable tuition plan. (Joseph Cress/The Daily Iowan)

Iowa regent universities using financial aid to offset rising tuition

Marissa Payne, [email protected] • April 15, 2018

COUNCIL BLUFFS — While facing dwindling support from the state, Iowa’s public universities have made it a priority to boost financial aid to offset the growing cost of financing higher education. In...

Regent Larry McKibben speaks during a state Board of Regents meeting in the IMU main lounge on Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017. The regents provided a summary of the state's funding situation and discussed future steps they would take to make a predictable tuition plan. (Joseph Cress/The Daily Iowan)

Increasing campus housing costs at Iowa regent universities adds to rising cost of attendance

Emily Wangen, [email protected] • April 15, 2018
A hike in residence hall rates adds to the increasing cost of attendance at Iowa’s universities.
UI President Bruce Harreld and UI Senior Vice President for Finance and Operations Rod Lehnertz listen during a state Board of Regents meeting at the Iowa School for the Deaf in Council Bluffs on Thursday, April 12, 2018.

UI halts campus construction to cope with midyear budget cuts

April 12, 2018
The UI looks to defer $5.5 million through a construction project moratorium in response to state budget cuts.
UISG President Jacob Simpson and GPSG Vice President Grant Jerkovich speak to the state Board of Regents about the effect of tuition increases on the student body on Thursday, April 12, 2018 at the Iowa School for the Deaf in Council Bluffs. (Emily Wangen/The Daily Iowan)

UI students express concerns about rising tuition with unstable state support

Marissa Payne, [email protected] • April 12, 2018
As the regents look to make tuition increases predictable, students express concerns about the instability of state funding.
State Board of Regents President Michael Richards listens to a speaker during a meeting on June 8, 2017 at Iowa State University. (The Daily Iowan/Nick Rohlman)

Iowa regents re-elect Richards, Cownie to board’s top positions

Marissa Payne, [email protected] • April 12, 2018
The state Board of Regents will see no change in leadership, with Mike Richards remaining atop the governing board of Iowa’s public universities.
Regents listen to a presentation during a state Board of Regents meeting in the IMU main lounge on Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017.

Iowa regent universities look to retain faculty as faculty resignations rise

Emily Wangen, [email protected] • April 11, 2018
After the UI saw an increase in the number of faculty resignations last year, the institution is now reporting a decline in departures, but other regent schools are reporting an increase.
Interim Chief Diversity Officer Lena Hill speaks in the IMU on Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2018. The presentation gave updates on diversity and other University of Iowa statistics. (Ashley Morris/The Daily Iowan)

Hill to leave UI, become dean of the College at Washington and Lee University

Marissa Payne, [email protected] • April 6, 2018
After more than a decade as a Hawkeye, Lena Hill will leave the UI to serve as dean of the College at Washington and Lee University in Virginia.
Kim Reynolds talks at Hy-Vee in Coralville during her 99 Counties tour on Thursday, April 5, 2018. (Ben Allan Smith/The Daily Iowan)

Reynolds tallies legislative wins in Hawkeye territory

Sarah Watson, [email protected] • April 5, 2018
As part of her 99-county tour, Gov. Kim Reynolds fielded school-safety questions and praised mental-health reform and workforce-training expansion.
FILE - Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds talks with University of Iowa President J. Bruce Harreld after a visit on the University of Iowa campus to learn about diversifying biomass fuel sources on at the Cambus Maintenance Facility on Wednesday, June, 7, 2017. Reynolds and Lt. Gov. Adam Gregg met with Harreld and other university experts on their visit while discussing the university's biomass portfolio. (The Daily Iowan/Joseph Cress)

Will higher education remain accessible as funding becomes less public?

Marissa Payne, [email protected] • April 4, 2018
In light of Iowa’s dwindling state support, legislators and members of the UI community ask: What is higher education’s role in society? How public will it remain if funding sources become more private?
FILE - Regents listen to a presentation during a state Board of Regents meeting in the IMU main lounge on Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017. The regents provided a summary of the state's funding situation and discussed future steps they would take to make a predictable tuition plan. (Joseph Cress/The Daily Iowan)

Iowa regents plan to keep tuition hikes under 4 percent

April 3, 2018

After the state Board of Regents had delayed a tuition discussion, the regents  unveiled a proposal Tuesday under which students at Iowa’s public universities would see tuition increases under 4 percent. The...

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds speaks during her first Condition of the State address in the Iowa State Capitol in Des Moines on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018. Reynolds took over the governor office in May of 2017. (Joseph Cress/The Daily Iowan)

Reynolds approves $10.9 million funding cuts

March 28, 2018

Gov. Kim Reynolds signed 23 bills into law on Wednesday, one of which will cut $10.9 million from the fiscal 2018 budgets of the University of Iowa and Iowa State University. In a press release from...

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