Election 2016 is about much more than the next four years.
Americans in my generation are deeply frustrated with the political system, and I’m afraid many are starting to give up. Professional politicians...
Farmers have been getting lots of attention, especially when it comes to the impact of agriculture on Iowa’s water quality. It makes sense. The things that farmers do can affect the quality of Iowa’s...
By Benjamin Marks
Food Pantry at Iowa Co-director
In 2009, Ken Ilgunas, a then graduate student at Duke University, published an essay on Salon.com about his struggle to graduate from college debt-free....
Samuel Studer
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Donald Trump is getting ready for his race to be over. Yet, he isn’t preparing for victory, but he’s preparing to lose. He is getting into the mindset that...
By Jacob Simpson
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Last week, the state Board of Regents passed a tuition increase of $250 for resident undergraduate students attending the University of Iowa. The tuition increase...
By Amin Bagheri
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The news reads: Abbas Kiarostami, an award-winning film director, died at the age of 76; it is truly a wonder that he made such great films in the hostile, censor-ridden...
America’s current federal debt exceeds $19.1 trillion (www.us-debt-clock.org). To get rid of this debt, which is owned by you and me, each person in the USA must pony up $60,000.
President Obama and...
President Obama must demand that Vice President Joe Biden immediately schedule a vote on Judge Merrick Garland’s nomination to the Supreme Court.
The U.S. Constitution makes Biden the president of the...
The first time I understood the true effect of private support at the University of Iowa was Phil’s Day 2014, during my first year in the University of Iowa Foundation’s Student Philanthropy Group....
As president and CEO of the University of Iowa Foundation, I have the privilege of helping connect UI alumni and friends with their passions — assisting them as they provide philanthropic support for...
On April 14, 2014, our son Austin “Flash” Schroeder was diagnosed with T-Cell Lymphoblastic Lymphoma, which no parent can prepare for. It changed our lives forever. We worried about Austin’s health...
Throughout my four years at the University of Iowa, I have received an incredible education and met many of my best friends. Even more important, I have learned the significance of philanthropy (or Phil,...
