Ames native and Iowa State University graduate David Cook — the second finalist to succeed outgoing ISU President Wendy Wintersteen — on Thursday told a campus crowd during a public forum that he wasn’t looking to leave his post as president of North Dakota State University.
In taking questions from the campus-based audience Wednesday during a public forum, Iowa State University presidential finalist Benjamin Houlton fielded one referencing the recent firing of an ISU employee for comments she posted on social media about Charlie Kirk’s killing.
Proposed bylaws for the University of Iowa’s new legislature-mandated Center for Intellectual Freedom require its 26-member advisory council to meet at least once a semester — plus any special meetings the chair or executive committee call.
Multimillion dollar school bond referendums failed to garner voter approval Tuesday in the Williamsburg and Central City school districts.
Cedar Rapids schools Superintendent Tawana Grover wants to harness the momentum gained in Tuesday’s failed bond referendum vote to build a school district the community backs.
The second of two finalists to succeed Iowa State University President Wendy Wintersteen has been identified as David Cook, an Ames native and Iowa State alum who’s been serving as the 15th president of North Dakota State University since 2022.
‘Mixed emotions’ felt by new board members as multimillion-dollar school bond referendum fails to pass
Unofficial results show the Cedar Rapids school district’s $117 million bond referendum narrowly failing by less than 1 percent — fewer than 200 votes short of approval. The referendum received just over 59 percent approval but requires a supermajority of 60 percent to pass.
Linn County voters in the Linn-Mar Community School District elected two incumbents and one newcomer to fill three open seats on the school board Tuesday.
Voters in the Iowa City Community School District elected two incumbents and one newcomer to fill three seats on the Iowa City school board Tuesday.
Two months after delaying the timeline of its new $2 billion inpatient tower, citing federal health care-related funding cuts, University of Iowa Health Care next week will ask the Board of Regents to approve $45.5 million in facilities upgrades across its three inpatient hospital campuses.
The first of two finalists to succeed Iowa State University President Wendy Wintersteen is Benjamin Houlton, dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University, where he holds rank as an ecology and evolutionary biology professor and co-chairs a “Climate Initiative” aimed at “mobilizing practical climate change solutions.”
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