Board of Regents Meeting Preview: September 16-17, 2026 Meeting Preview

The Iowa Board of Regents will meet September 16-17 at UNI’s Maucker Union in Cedar Falls. Selected agenda items are outlined in brief below. Open session portions of the meeting will be livestreamed on the Board’s YouTube channel.  Meeting Background The September meeting represents the first on-campus meeting of the...

At its September meeting, the Board of Regents will consider approval of FY 2028 state appropriations requests totaling $631.8 million. The Board will request a $10 million increase over FY 2027. General Education Fund The Board's general education request totals $561.25 million, a 1.08% increase from FY 2027. Each of...

At its September meeting, the Board of Regents will consider approval of a new Master of Science program in Machine Learning and Data Engineering (MLDE) at Iowa State University. If approved, the new program would train students to apply machine learning and data analytics to engineering problems. The program is...

At its September meeting, the Board of Regents will consider approval of a new center at the University of Iowa: the Institute for Cancer Drug Discovery and Development (CANDID). If approved, the new center would be housed in the College of Pharmacy and charged with accelerating the discovery, development and...