Two years after the American Association of University Professors placed the University of Iowa on its ignominious list of sanctioned higher education institutions over the hiring of UI President Bruce Harreld, it changed course last weekend and lifted the blackball — now offering praise to the university, the Cedar Rapids Gazette reported. During the association’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C., delegates voted to remove UI from the list, citing progress in relations between its faculty and the Iowa Board of Regents. “Recent reports from multiple faculty members described the current state of faculty-board relations at Iowa as the best in the past 20 years or more,” according to an AAUP news release.