If Iowa’s 15 community colleges are allowed to start offering four-year bachelor’s degrees —as Republican lawmakers have said is necessary and likely to happen—some of Iowa’s 27 private colleges and universities will shutter.
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...
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...
Iowa’s colleges and universities are getting more creative, open-minded, and flexible in how, when and who they educate—a response to student demands and workforce needs—with the evolution perhaps most evident in the growing diversity of their graduates.
