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Applications underway for health care education scholarships

The Iowa Hospital Association, through its subsidiary the Iowa Hospital Education and Research Foundation, will award 60 health care scholarships of up to $7,000 ($3,500 per year for up to two years) and $1,000 specific …

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DMACC, DREAM Iowa partner to offer immigrant student scholarships

Des Moines Area Community College and DREAM Iowa have established a partnership in which each will provide $500 scholarships for a total of $1,000 to as many as 10 DMACC students. This year, DMACC and DREAM Iowa …

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Iowa State’s stadium pedestrian bridge project moves forward, awaits final approval

Des Moines Register: A $10 million pedestrian bridge project that would span the road east of Jack Trice Stadium was advanced today by an Iowa Board of Regents committee. The proposed quarter-mile-long elevated Gateway Bridge would …

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Slate of speakers announced for virtual Business Analytics Symposium

The annual Business Analytics Symposium, hosted by the Debbie and Jerry Ivy College of Business at Iowa State University, will return this year as a virtual event on April 6 and 7 (half-day each day). Now in …

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Notebook: Western Governors University seeks to fill workforce education gaps in Iowa

Angie Besendorfer, the Midwest regional vice president for Western Governors University, visited Iowa recently and I took her up on an invitation to sit down in person for coffee — rather than another Zoom meeting …

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University of Iowa to reinstate women’s swimming and diving

Cedar Rapids Gazette: The University of Iowa is fully reinstating its women’s swimming and diving team after a federal judge in December found athletes had a “fair chance” of winning a lawsuit accusing the UI of …

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Feng to lead faculty development, DEI for Grinnell College

Grinnell College has named Jin Feng as associate dean for faculty development and diversity, equity and inclusion, effective July 1. Feng joined Grinnell College in 2001 and is currently professor of Chinese and Japanese and the Orville …

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$3M awarded in Career Academy Incentive Fund grants to expand workforce training

Gov. Kim Reynolds and the Iowa Department of Education today awarded three $1 million competitive grants through the new Career Academy Incentive Fund. The grants are designed to help schools prepare more high school students …

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Thousands of students didn’t return to Iowa universities for spring semester

Cedar Rapids Gazette: Thousands of students who enrolled in Iowa’s public universities in the fall did not return for the spring semester, according to new campus census numbers made public Tuesday. The University of Iowa’s spring …

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Tippie, Grinnell form liberal arts-finance partnership for master’s program

The University of Iowa and Grinnell College have formed a new partnership that will streamline the process for Grinnell students to be admitted to the Master of Science in Finance program in the university’s Tippie …