Students at Iowa’s three state universities will see tuition go up for the 2017-2018 academic year, with additional increases for students in higher-cost programs, like the University of Iowa’s engineering program, under a tuition proposal approved by the Iowa Board of Regents on Monday. The base tuition for resident undergraduates will increase by two percent. […]
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UI Graduate Student Senate joins Faculty Senate in ‘No Confidence’ vote
“Graduate students are critical, evidence-driven, and adaptive, and as a result often entertain radical ideas.” So begins the meeting statement from last night’s UI Graduate Student Senate General Assembly meeting, in which the GSS joined University faculty and a large number of Iowa City residents in denouncing the appointment of J. Bruce Harreld as University […]
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Regents president Rastetter ‘disappointed’ by Faculty Senate no confidence vote
Following this afternoon’s UI Faculty Senate meeting at which a vote of no confidence in the Iowa Board of Regents was passed, Regents president Bruce Rastetter has issued the following statement: Statement from Board of Regents President Bruce Rastetter on University of Iowa Faculty Senate Vote of No Confidence The landscape of higher education is changing […]
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Political Cartoon: ‘Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?’
Mere hours before the Iowa Board of Regents selected J. Bruce Harreld as the University of Iowa’s next president, a survey conducted by the UI chapter of the American Association of University Professors found that only 1.8 percent of faculty and 2.6 percent of other respondents answered in the affirmative when asked if the candidate […]
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District Court: COGS wins bargaining victory against Iowa Board of Regents in “Pay-to-Work” case
COGS (Campaign to Organize Graduate Students), the University of Iowa’s graduate employee union, has won a bargaining victory in the Iowa District Court…
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Opinion: Stop over-funding the bloated UI administration
Recently, the University of Iowa has been making some questionable decisions in the name of finances. Courses are being cut in Intermedia (despite waiting lists and TA’s ready to teach them), fellowships that traditionally fund underrepresented minorities are being eliminated, graduate students are inconsistently funded or underfunded and the number of part-time, non-benefit-receiving adjunct faculty […]
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Regents proposal offers no wage increase for grad students, slashes reimbursement for quarter-timers
Within the last 10 days both the Campaign to Organize Graduate Students (COGS), the University of Iowa’s Graduate Employee Union and bargaining representatives…
