Most of the media coverage of the painful funding cuts for the Iowa universities and K-12 schools overlooks and inadequately reports the real reason the Iowa Legislature does not have the funds to pay...
We Americans who value history at least a little are familiar with both the Civil War and the Cold War. Right now, we are in the middle of a Civil Cold War. It’s not a phrase I can claim to coin (it’s...
By DANIEL SHOVERS
A group of five Midwestern real-estate developers are building a 350-unit apartment community known as The Quarters to be located approximately three miles from the University of Iowa...
I am fortunate to have health insurance, although I spent many years without it. As an undergraduate student in the early 2000s, I suffered my first major health scare. I was diagnosed with a liver disorder...
[Last] week, the University of Iowa and the University of Iowa Foundation shared the results of our historic, eight-year campaign “For Iowa. Forever More.” More than 272,000 contributors from 99 Iowa...
Three miles south of the Pentacrest, past Highway 6, sits a “resort-style” student-housing development called “The Quarters.” The units range in size from one to three bedrooms, and the amenities...
By Rachel Zuckerman
Last week, for the first time ever, the Council for Higher Education Accreditation annual conference in Washington, D.C., featured a panel on accreditation from the perspective...
During my first year as an undergraduate student at the University of Iowa 23 years ago, I had the good fortune to be part of an historical moment — the inaugural UI Dance Marathon. Though we were not...
The University of Iowa chapter of the American Association of University Professors opposes Senate File 41, a bill introduced in the Iowa Legislature in January by Sen. Brad Zaun. If passed, the bill...
In the wake of Donald Trump’s November victory, a group of the world’s leading scientists endorsed an unprecedented open letter. In it, they implored the incoming Congress and administration to “strengthen...
University of Iowa President Bruce Harreld celebrated his first year in office by refusing to give any interviews to the press or hold any of the town-hall meetings that he had promised when he arrived....
John Higgs, in his 2015 book Stranger Than We Can Imagine: An Alternative History Of The 20th Century, writes about the influence of Russian-American Ayn Rand on the fundamentalists’ approach to personal...
