Board News - 2011 Archive - Page 2

The Board of Regents announces a new initiative with Iowa’s Community Colleges that will expand opportunities for community college students to complete their associate degree. Under the new reverse credit transfer agreement, community college students who transfer to Iowa’s Public Universities before earning an associate degree will have the opportunity to submit their University credits toward completion of the associate degree. 

Ames, Iowa -- What qualities should the Iowa Board of Regents look for in their search for a new Iowa State University president? 

The Committee was first convened by University of Iowa President Sally Mason on February 4, 2011, at which point it was formally charged to investigate the rhabdomyolysis (hereinafter rhabdo) symptoms diagnosed in University of Iowa (UI) football players, leading to the hospitalization of 13 student athletes on January 24 and 25, 2011. The committee was directed to make a thorough investigation of the incident and to report our findings and recommendations to the President by March 23, 2011. 

Through decades of support for the University of Northern Iowa, Iowa State University, and the University of Iowa, we have built three of the nation’s finest public universities, benefitting students, local communities and our entire state. 

The proposal in House Study Bill 84 to force the Board of Regents to sell the Jackson Pollock painting, “Mural”, is a profoundly bad idea – one that was examined by the Iowa Board of Regents in 2008 and determined to be not in the best interests of the University of Iowa or the state.

In response to the statement released earlier today by Board of Regents President David Miles, Regent Michael Gartner disagrees. Gartner believes that providing scholarships to Iowa students is far more important than owning a painting that is not on the campus, has not been for two years, and is unlikely to be for at least another three years. 

The health and well-being of students at all of Iowa’s Public Universities is of paramount concern to the Iowa Board of Regents and to the University of Iowa. As such, the recent hospitalization of 13 University of Iowa football players following pre-season workouts is a cause for grave concern. Our immediate focus is the full recovery of each of the young men involved, and we continue to closely monitor the medical condition of our student-athletes.