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Youth Leadership Institute recognizes its 2020 graduates

The Greater Des Moines Leadership Institute’s Youth Leadership Initiative has announced the graduation of its Class of 2020, made up of 38 student leaders from 20 Central Iowa high schools. YLI provides high school students with experiential …

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40 Iowa colleges, universities enter joint membership with Open Textbook Network

Forty Iowa colleges and universities have combined for a joint membership with the Open Textbook Network, a consortium of colleges and universities working to advance open textbook initiatives, the Iowa Board of Regents announced. OTN, which has …

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MercyOne receives $1.9 million federal grant to develop rural residency program

MercyOne Central Iowa announced that it has received a $1.9 million federal grant that it will use to develop a rural residency program for family medicine physicians. The grant from the Health Resources & Services …

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Tippie College of Business starts over on dean search

The University of Iowa’s Tippie College of Business has decided to start over entirely in its search for a new dean, the college recently announced. Because the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated delaying in-person finalist visits from the spring …

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Mercy College of Health announces plan to reopen

Mercy College of Health Sciences plans to resume programs or courses with lab or competency components on July 6, with restrictions, the college announced in a recent news release. The college has been operating remotely …

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Regents approve new ISU department name: Management and Entrepreneurship

The Iowa Board of Regents this week approved a new name for the business management department at Iowa State University’s Debbie and Jerry Ivy College of Business. The approved name, Department of Management and Entrepreneurship, …

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Auto dealers foundation awards nearly $60,000 to community college auto tech programs

The Iowa Automobile Dealers Foundation for Education awarded nearly $60,000 to 14 auto technology programs at community colleges across Iowa as part of its ongoing efforts to support automotive education in the state. The grants provide funds …

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Iowa regents freeze tuition rates for fall; students request that it last longer

Cedar Rapids Gazette: Iowa’s public university students will be back this fall to have “as full a range of on-campus experiences as possible” — without a tuition increase, at least for now. The Board of Regents …

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Iowa State investigating public-private utilities partnership, like UI

Cedar Rapids Gazette: Iowa State University is investigating the possibility of entering a public-private partnership for operation of its utility system, following the lead of the University of Iowa, which in December entered into a $1.165 …

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Employee safety top of mind as companies begin to reopen

As the state transitions into reopening and the economy begins to crawl back from the collapse of COVID-19, leaders of some of Iowa’s largest companies are working to find the balance between resuming normal activity …

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