“My message to those 14 cities and one county is this: stand up.”
Iowa House approves bill banning local civil rights protections above state law iowacapitaldispatch.com/2026/03/05/i...
Regents dismiss one of two complaints about university employee DEI videos
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Good grief.
Always interesting to see the ooo emails from campuses who are off for the day and how it is isolated to certain states.
It’s once again Girl Scout cookie season so it’s time for me remind everyone to please consider buying from NYC’s Girl Scout Troop 6000, which is entirely made up of girls living in NYC homeless shelters 🙏❤️
“Let us refuse to be an Iowa that polices the mind, and instead be a state that empowers the spirit.” — Sam Helmick, president of the American Library Association
Lawmakers call for public libraries to restrict minors’ access to ‘harmful’ materials iowacapitaldispatch.com/2026/02/12/l...
Lawmaker refers University of Iowa job postings to AG.
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Love this.
No, I'm not up at 4 AM watching Olympic curling; you are.
With chronic underfunding how can higher education continue as a public good?
Reason 197 why we need new representation in Iowa House District 95.
Iowa private university leaders see bills as harmful to their institutions iowacapitaldispatch.com/2026/02/02/i...
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
The article says discontinued in 2014, but i would have to dig out my last staff t-shirt to be sure.
Makes no sense above a campus level. Strange.
Good grief. As a former student affairs person who spent countless HOURS working this CAMPUS event, the overreach here is mind boggling. Must be more to this cuckoo request.
Bill would explore possible reinstatement of VEISHEA at Iowa State University iowacapitaldispatch.com/briefs/bill-...
Who could not see the freight train coming for your freedom? www.stormlake.com/stories/who-...
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Iowa lawmaker asks private universities to adopt his civics education agenda
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An exchange semester with one of our NSE Hawaii partners sounds pretty good on this -6° morning!
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Oh, come on. 🤦♀️
House panel approves bill to drop student vote from Iowa Board of Regents iowacapitaldispatch.com/2026/01/21/h...
It's worrisome. As a former private college employee, not sure this makes sense here.
Private colleges argue potential harms of 4-year community college degrees iowacapitaldispatch.com/2026/01/20/p...
Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask:
"If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"
Yes, there are much worse things but I still have to breathe every day while favorite daughter finishes last semester of grad school in Minneapolis. And I know that she is being smart and safe. But not okay.
Courts need forensic analysis to assess guilt, but I don't need a frame by frame analysis to know that the person who caused the murder was the one holding the gun, the one who pulled the trigger.
Events yesterday happened a 3-hour drive away. Daughter is in her last semester of grad school at the U. I am there every month. Just hosted our conference in the city.
My staff work remotely from Minnesota. That murder? Their neighborhood. That high school altercation? Their kid’s school. Not ok.
The Department of Education's negotiated rulemaking session on higher ed accountability starts today. Here is my first look at new program-level data that ED released, which also highlights the 30 percent of graduate and professional programs where average borrowing exceeds the new federal caps.
"It’s about protecting what we have."
One Iowan’s quest for darker skies might benefit rural Iowa iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/12/31/o...
Interesting and troubling for higher ed.
An image of the Duolingo language app owl mascot rising like a phoenix to celebrate a 100 day learning streak.
Yay, me!
I am sorry. 😞
I am so sorry. We had to face the same earlier this month. Take care.
