IOWA CITY — University of Iowa President Sally Mason ranked in the top 40 nationally among public university presidents for her total compensation in Fiscal Year 2012, according to a new annual study from the Chronicle of Higher Education. One spot on the study lists Mason as 38th for pay, and another spot on the [...]

IOWA CITY — Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany often uses punctuation — usually a period or a comma — to describe his league’s status on expansion. Now a semicolon seems more appropriate. The Big Ten Conference will move forward in 2014 with 14 members, but officials acknowledge the number could change depending on the college [...]

IOWA CITY — Big Ten officials approved a scheduling philosophy Sunday designed to keep its member schools from scheduling Football Championship Subdivision opponents beginning in 2016. But the guidelines are loose and ambiguous. “It isn’t a matter of not being allowed, the question really is will be there opportunities,” University of Iowa President Sally Mason [...]

All University of Iowa employees have now completed a sexual harassment prevention course, UI President Sally Mason told state regents during a meeting Thursday. Mason reported the 100 percent compliance to the regents, saying she was pleased the university reached that level. The regents in February had asked Mason to report back on the issue [...]

The firing of Rutgers University basketball coach Mike Rice last week drew national attention to leadership issues in college athletics, an issue the Big Ten Conference already has been discussing, University of Iowa President Sally Mason said. The situation at Rutgers — Rice was fired after video surfaced publicly of him shoving and throwing basketballs [...]

Presidents of Iowa’s state universities said they have various new initiatives aimed at boosting student retention and graduation rates, including encouraging more new students to take part in living-learning communities and more timely intervention for students struggling in subjects like math. The state Board of Regents on Wednesday heard the annual report on retention and [...]

University of Iowa officials are giving the federal government a few more months to provide answers to questions regarding funding for the flood-damaged Museum of Art before moving on with other options for the facility, UI President Sally Mason said Wednesday. The idea of litigation against the Federal Emergency Management Agency over the art museum [...]

The University of Iowa has work to do when it comes to ensuring that all employees complete sexual harassment training, President Sally Mason said Wednesday in the wake of an internal university audit. The audit of university hiring and training practices was requested by Mason in the wake of the Peter Gray sexual harassment scandal [...]

URBANDALE – Policy changes related to transparency and accountability are coming to Iowa’s three public universities, in part due to questions and criticism about openness in recent months, the president of the state Board of Regents said Tuesday. The regents at a meeting next week will consider requiring each university to appoint a transparency officer [...]

University of Iowa President Sally Mason today said she was upbeat about her mid-year evaluation with the state Board of Regents, her first such review with the board since it was revealed she is working on an at-will basis. Mason, a few minutes before she went into the closed-session evaluation with the regents, previewed for [...]