The Luther College board of regents has appointed David Tiede as interim president of the college, effective July 1. Luther President Richard Torgerson will leave his post with the college on June 30. Tiede’s appointment at Luther is for a period of 12 months, or until the permanent position is filled, officials said. Tiede is [...]

IOWA CITY – Departing University of Iowa School of Journalism and Mass Communication Director David Perlmutter said Tuesday the UI program is in a “fantastic place,” and he believes it will draw a new director who will keep the momentum going. Perlmutter, who has led the UI School of Journalism and Mass Communication since 2009, [...]

The University of Wisconsin-Platteville gets the message out to 100 percent of its students via text message if an emergency happens on its campus. But less than half of the students at the University of Iowa and Iowa State University who are signed up to get emergency alerts — and not all are — would [...]

A second public hearing to be held tonight by the transparency task force of the state Board of Regents will originate in Iowa City, not in Muscatine as previously planned. Technical difficulties with the Iowa Communications Network moved the hearing from the Muscatine High School site, officials said. Instead, the public hearing will originate from [...]

William Duffy will be the new president of Upper Iowa University, the school’s board of trustees voted last week. Board chairman Bob Firth and Trustee Bill Cook, head of the presidential search committee, made the announcement Friday at the end of the regular board meeting. The search committee had recommended five candidates to the board [...]

IOWA CITY — The undergraduate student credit hours taught by graduate students at the University of Iowa and Iowa State University declined from 2006 to 2010, a decrease some officials and graduate student leaders attribute to the schools using more nontenured faculty. The biennial report on faculty activities submitted to the state Board of Regents [...]

The University of Northern Iowa has received a $2 million grant to create a new center for educational research and development, university officials announced this week. The grant is from the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust. The new Center for Educational Transformation will help UNI provide statewide and national leadership in educational research and development, [...]

The Iowa Board of Regents will choose a new board president at the June meeting, after three members took part in their last meeting Thursday. The six-year terms of three regents — Craig Lang, of Brooklyn; David Miles, of Dallas Center; and Jack Evans, of Cedar Rapids — end April 30. Lang, the board president, [...]

CEDAR FALLS – Issues about how state funding is allocated among Iowa’s three regent universities will be discussed by a new Board of Regents task force that will look at state funding levels and the model of distribution. Board members have for some time wanted to analyze state funding levels and have that discussion, and [...]

The Iowa Court of Appeals has reversed and remanded a disciplinary action taken by the Iowa Board of Medicine against a University of Iowa radiology professor cited for excessive use of alcohol. That ruling, made this week, means the disciplinary action levied against Wendy R. K. Smoker in January 2011 and affirmed by a district [...]