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Palmer Group seeks responses for annual salary guide

Palmer Group is gathering data for its upcoming 2022 Salary Guide and would like Greater Des Moines employers to participate. The company conducts the survey annually in collaboration with the Greater Des Moines Partnership. Individual …

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University of Iowa will pay $400,000 in Title IX athletics settlement

Cedar Rapids Gazette: As part of the University of Iowa’s deal to settle a lawsuit accusing it of federal gender equity violations, the institution has agreed to pay “reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs” of nearly $400,000 …

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UNI professor removed for mandating masks is reinstated for virtual instruction

Cedar Rapids Gazette: Heeding mounting pressure not just from directly affected students but also from the larger student body and others, the University of Northern Iowa late Wednesday revised its discipline of an embattled professor who …

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NOTEBOOK – ONE GOOD READ: Why there’s a school bus driver shortage

We’ve all seen the banner signs hung off the side of a parked school bus advertising that a district is hiring drivers. The request for drivers doesn’t just occur before the start of a school …

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Derry named chair of DMACC paralegal program

Karin Derry of Johnston has been selected as the new chair of the DMACC Paralegal Program located at the Urban Campus in Des Moines. With a background in human resources management, Derry also has a law …

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ISU dedicates new Student Innovation Center

Iowa State University President Wendy Wintersteen and Gov. Kim Reynolds were among those on hand last week to celebrate the opening of ISU’s new Student Innovation Center. Photo provided by ISU

Iowa State University celebrated the …

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Innovative Place: Iowa State University Computation + Construction Lab

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Pappajohns donate $10 million to higher education

Cedar Rapids Gazette: John and Mary Pappajohn of Des Moines announced a $10 million gift commitment to continue entrepreneurship education and programming through the John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Centers at the University of Iowa, University of …

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UI to become first Power Five school to add women’s wrestling program

Des Moines Register: The University of Iowa is adding a women’s wrestling program to its athletics department, the Register has learned. The Hawkeyes will be the first Division I Power Five school to offer women’s wrestling. …

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More Iowa men are skipping college

Axios Des Moines: Iowa men have historically enrolled in college at lower rates than women, but the education gap is widening, state data shows. The number of male Iowa high school graduates who immediately enrolled in …