A newly formed nonprofit is considering a small, place-based college in Ashland to preserve Northland College’s legacy after it closed last year. The model reflects a growing national shift toward microcolleges that emphasize community, local ecology and close-knit learning.

As legislators continue their consideration of a slate of bills aimed at reshaping higher education in Iowa, one lawmaker Wednesday called on Iowa’s community colleges to consider offering bachelor’s degrees.

Iowa’s public universities in recent months have made progress on complying with a new law restricting diversity, equity, and inclusion-related spending, training, and programming—cutting jobs, closing offices, and reallocating more than $2.1 million from DEI to other priorities—but some regents and lawmakers say their work isn’t done. “Just this semester there were several examples of […]

Although more “postmortem” is needed to determine the full impact of the massive delays and confusion that plagued the government’s botched rollout of its revised Free Application for Federal Student Aid last term, admissions directors at Iowa’s public universities last week recounted the ramifications for their campuses, their applicants and their returning students. “We still, […]