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,...
I was a baseball player in junior college. I never dreamed that one day I would work at a university as a professor. This is likely because I had not yet experienced the generosity of so many people...
My first experience with philanthropy in higher education was as a recipient. Preparing to transfer from a community college to a four-year institution, I was concerned about affordability; working a job...
In Iowa City, it is possible to walk into a bar on a Tuesday night and, from every booth, hear conversations about writing. As a member of this community, you’re likely to encounter a poet buying produce...
Since I became the University of Iowa president, I have been amazed by the generosity of our community. Students, faculty, staff, friends, and alumni are eager to share their time, talent, or treasure...
As a student in a science, technology, engineering, mathematics discipline, I sometimes find it difficult to avoid becoming jaded in the classroom. Although STEM education is key to the U.S. economic future,...
With the never-ending political candidates’ name-calling and the dysfunctional gridlock in Washington, D.C., the first U.S. president got it right. In George Washington’s farewell address, noted as...
Land use, small-farm food production, and transportation are three of the important environmental issues voters should consider when choosing candidates to support in the June 7 Democratic primary election...
The Constitution mandates the president “shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint . . . Judges of the supreme Court.”
President Obama sent the Senate his...
In 1867, Alexander Clark sued the Muscatine Public School District when his daughter was denied admission because of her race. The Iowa Supreme Court ruled in favor of Clark, effectively desegregating...
I am a victim/survivor of domestic abuse. I am also a mother and a University of Iowa student.
Domestic violence is a widely misunderstood term and phenomenon. I personally choose to use the term domestic...
