Iowa City School District officials may cut a total of 75 positions in the district for the 2019-20 school year as the district grapples with having to trim its budget.
The potential position cuts...
This year marks the creation of a new Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Legacy Award as the University of Iowa celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Diversity Catalyst Awards.
Four faculty and staff...
A jury on Feb. 25 ruled in favor of a construction group and ordered the University of Iowa to pay more than $2 million plus interest in restitution over a nearly six-year-long construction dispute.
Jeffrey...
Update 4/8: Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed SF 304 into law Monday following unanimous passage through both chambers of the Iowa Legislature. It was introduced in mid-February, passed the Senate on March...
“You have plunged me in this everlasting blackness.”
The room was silent as Berlin-based author Esther Dischereit read from her poetry on historical memory. Her reading focused on the pain and suffering...
A bill addressing free speech on college campuses passed the Iowa House on Thursday afternoon on a 52-44 vote.
The bill would designate most outdoor areas of community colleges and state universities...
Iowa City Downtown District has launched its search for a new nighttime mayor on its website following the departure of Angela Winnike.
The nighttime mayor is a position that Iowa City introduced in...
University of Iowa faculty, staff, and students gathered in the IMU for a public forum on Thursday to hear the second candidate to become the associate vice president for diversity, equity, and inclusion,...
A new ordinance allowing the investigation of massage businesses in the area has recently been enforced by the Iowa City police to crack down on human trafficking.
Area police began enforcing an added...
After a colleague in the Rhetoric Department was diagnosed with cancer during winter break, a group of faculty in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences has petitioned for a sick-leave bank for tenure-...
Andrew Yang is among a number of Democratic presidential candidates promoting their political ideas with book tours.
The entrepreneur described his 2018 book, The War on Normal People, at Prairie Lights...