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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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A new state Board of Regents task force will examine the model of state funding to Iowa’s three public universities, Regents President Craig Lang announced Thursday. Lang, whose last meeting as a regent is today, has asked David Miles, another regent whose six-year term on the board ends this month, to head the new task [...]
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University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics must find more budget efficiencies and grow patient volumes in response to financial challenges in the health care industry, UI hospital leaders said Wednesday in seeking state regents approval of next year’s budget. It’s not a new message from hospital leaders, but they repeated it Wednesday during a state [...]
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IOWA CITY — The estimated budget for part of a proposed new scoreboard and sound system at Kinnick Stadium has increased by more than $1.1 million after construction bids came back higher than expected. The state Board of Regents on Thursday will consider the University of Iowa proposal for the new scoreboard and sound [...]
continue »University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics leaders want state regents to approve a 6 percent increase to the hospital rate for the 2014 fiscal year. The state Board of Regents meets Wednesday and Thursday in Cedar Falls. The meeting information was released Thursday. The new UIHC rate would be effective July 1. Determining the proposed [...]
continue »After declines last year, the University of Iowa and Iowa State University both saw their most recent average student debt levels increase, according to a new report released Thursday. The University of Northern Iowa saw average student loan debt decrease for the second year in a row, according to the annual student financial aid report [...]
continue »The state Board of Regents must hold public comment time at meetings and develop a clear process for complaints about ethics violations by board members if the regents want to build public trust, numerous speakers at a transparency forum said Wednesday. Those were two of the frequently mentioned suggestions from speakers at the forum, which [...]
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