Board of Regents Newsletter: November 2020 Newsletter

In 2010, Governor Terry Branstad signed the Home Base Iowa bill. Home Base Iowa (HBI) put into place a number of programs, incentives and requirements to better support military veterans and their families, and encourage them to make Iowa their home. A key pillar of those efforts was postsecondary education... Read More on Iowa's Public Universities Supporting Veterans

This November, the search for the next president of the University of Iowa took three big steps. Following the October announcement of search committee chairs Sandy Daack-Hirsch and John Keller, the full search committee was announced November 10. The committee is charged with identifying finalists for the Board's consideration and...

The American Association for the Advancement of Science is honoring six Iowa State University researchers for work in engineering, math and biological sciences. The six Iowa State researchers have been named to this year’s class of 489 AAAS Fellows “because of their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science...

Every Monday this fall semester, De’Carlos Anderson’s cell phone would light up with an inspirational text message. The text would be from one of the first-year or transfer students involved in the newly created University of Northern Iowa Panther Promise Academy, a developing program launched this fall that seeks to...