Board of Regents Newsletter: September 2022 Newsletter

The University of Iowa continues to attract high-achieving students. This fall’s incoming first-year class has topped previous records with an average high school grade-point average (GPA) of 3.82. The average high school GPA for the classes of 2025 and 2024 were 3.81 and 3.78, respectively. This year, 21,973 undergraduates are...
The University of Iowa is tied with Yale as the No. 2 university in the country for writing, according to the latest rankings from U.S. News & World Report. Iowa is the only public university in the top 10, behind No. 1 Brown University, and is ahead of universities such...
Keeping plants continuously growing on farmland through the winter protects and enriches soil, improves water quality and reduces greenhouse gas emissions. That's why Lisa Schulte Moore, a professor of natural resource ecology and management at Iowa State University, is working to make year-round covered ground a conventional practice. A new...
The University of Northern Iowa was recently featured on Washington Monthly’s list of America’s Best Colleges for Student Voting. Out of the 850 institutions considered for the list, only 230 schools, including UNI, made the cut. To earn a spot, each institution had to show its commitment to increasing student...