Meeting Rundown
The Iowa Board of Regents will meet June 10-12, 2025 in Iowa City. Open session portions of the meeting will be livestreamed on the Board’s YouTube Channel.
Meeting Background
The Regents will spend much of Tuesday and the early portion of Wednesday in closed session for evaluations of the university presidents and the executive director. These evaluations happen twice a year; once during the middle of the academic year and again at the end. The end-of-year evaluations help determine the university presidents’ and executive director’s compensation, which will be considered on Thursday.
Final action on 2025-26 Tuition and Fee rates also will be considered on Thursday. This action follows the first reading of tuition and fee rates that occurred during the April 23-24 meeting and reports from student government leaders from the May 19 meeting. The Board will consider undergraduate base tuition rate increases of three percent at the University of Iowa and Iowa State University and 2.7 percent at the University of Northern Iowa.
Iowa State University Presidential Search
With ISU President Wendy Wintersteen’s retirement announcement last month, the Board has begun the process of finding her successor. This marks the Board’s first presidential search since the 2021 hiring of UI President Barbara Wilson and the first-ever search for most of the Regents currently serving.
On Tuesday, Dr. Roderick McDavis, Managing Principal of AGB Search will provide an overview of best practices in presidential searches and lead a presentation and discussion with the Board. McDavis was President of Ohio University for 13 years and has been at AGB Search since 2017.
More on the Board’s Presidential Search Professional Development
Property and Facilities Committee
The Committee will consider capital registers from the three universities and the Iowa Lakeside Laboratory. The UI register includes early work on UI Health Care’s forthcoming Patient Care Tower, which includes skywalk updates, utility work and roadway changes. UI’s request to raze three buildings, including the Wendell Johnson Speech and Hearing Center, Hospital Parking Ramp 1 and the water tower, is in service to this early work on the Patient Care Tower project. UNI’s register requests permission to proceed with project planning for its Commons Modernization project, which renovates the UNI Commons to house the Center for Civic Education.
Read more on UNI’s Common’s Modernization Project
Academic Affairs Committee
The Committee will consider UI’s plan to move its MS in Finance program from in-person to online only.
Governance, Evaluation and Human Resources Committee
Iowa Code 262.9(2) requires the Board to appoint institutional secretaries and treasurers each year. The committee will consider these appointments at all three universities. Additionally, the committee will consider salary policies, professional and scientific pay structures and student insurance rates for the coming academic year.
