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ISU Startup Factory cohort receives $200,000 commercialization grant

Parametric Studio Inc., a cohort company at the Iowa State University Startup Factory, has received a $200,000 federal grant to commercialize its innovative STEM augmented reality software app for young students. The company has developed …

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Grinnell College lands $1 million Mellon grant

Grinnell College has received a $1 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to highlight the public importance of humanities, the humanistic social sciences and the arts. Edward Cohn, associate professor of history, and …

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Regents project 3% to 5.3% tuition hike next fall

Cedar Rapids Gazette: Using a model that Iowa’s Board of Regents unveiled last year to help families plan for the rising cost of education, undergraduate students who are residents of Iowa attending Iowa State University and …

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Student loan repayment benefits gain traction

Iowa organizations that are looking for an edge in recruiting and retaining employees may want to consider a relatively new benefit option — student loan repayment programs. 

An estimated 4% of U.S. employers currently offer …

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State adopts career and tech ed standards

The Iowa State Board of Education recently adopted new career and technical education standards for programs that enroll middle and high school students. The programs encompass agriculture, food and natural resources; applied sciences, technology, engineering and manufacturing; business, …

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Black, Hispanic students continue to lag behind peers academically, new state test results show

Black, Hispanic and low-income Iowa students continue to lag behind their peers academically, results from statewide exams released today by the Iowa Department of Education show.

Specifically, in the 2018-19 school year, half or more …

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ISU’s enrollment declines third straight year

Fewer students are attending Iowa State University this fall than did a year ago, according to enrollment data released by the Ames institution.

A total of 33,391 undergraduate and graduate students are enrolled at the …

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‘Historic’ tuition decrease at private Central College turns heads

Des Moines Register: A “historic” price plummet introduced this week at Central College in Pella could reinvigorate the conversation about the cost of higher education. Central, a liberal arts school, will lower its annual tuition to …

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School district faces $900,000 budget hole after taxing error on Facebook’s data center

Des Moines Register: The Bondurant-Farrar school district is facing an $894,285 loss — about 3.5% of its budget — after the county assessor failed to exempt Facebook’s latest data center building from property taxes. The $52.4 …

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Iowa universities will seek $18 million more from state next year

After Iowa lawmakers fell $6 million shy of funding the Board of Regent’s full appropriations request for the current budget year, the board is again asking for an $18 million increase in general education support …