Vanessa Miller
The Gazette
Cedar Rapids, IA, United States
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Iowa has second-highest cancer rate; only state with cancer cases rising
Fifty years after Iowa began collecting and analyzing data on residents diagnosed with cancer through its Iowa Cancer Registry, statistics reveal Iowa has the second-highest cancer incidence rate in the nation and is the only state with a rising rate of cancer. → Read More
University of Iowa Athletics will reimburse state for $2M football settlement costs
University of Iowa Athletics will reimburse the state for the $2 million taxpayers covered of a $4.2 million deal to settle a discrimination lawsuit 12 former football players filed against UI Athletics and its coaches, UI President Barbara Wilson said Thursday morning. → Read More
University of Iowa Health Care union ratifies ‘strongest contract’ in years
The union representing 3,800 University of Iowa Health Care workers has announced the ratification of its “strongest contract for our members in Iowa since the changes to Chapter 20 in 2017.” → Read More
UI Athletics shares DEI ‘action plan’ incorporated in $4.2M settlement
University of Iowa Athletics’ 2023 “diversity, equity, and inclusion five-year action plan” — which the department will get help operationalizing under terms of a new discrimination lawsuit settlement — lists 20-plus “actionable activities,” like designing “spotlight recognition awards for DE&I teams and departments who exemplify our values.” → Read More
UI agrees to $4.2M settlement in football racism lawsuit
The University of Iowa and Board of Regents have agreed to pay $4.175 million to settle a lawsuit with former Hawkeye football players accusing the program and its coaches of fostering a culture of racism and discrimination. → Read More
University of Iowa frat sex assault case set for trial in July
Despite pushback from accused former University of Iowa students and the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity with which they were involved, a lawsuit alleging alcohol- and drug-assisted sexual violence and “malicious and intentional circulation” of photos and videos is ongoing and headed for trial in July. → Read More
Gov. Reynolds appoints former Republican candidate to regents
Gov. Kim Reynolds on Friday reappointed two regents charged with governing Iowa’s public universities and named one new appointee to the nine-member board — former Republican congressional candidate Robert Cramer. → Read More
Mercy Iowa City retained ‘performance improvement’ consultant
Mercy Iowa City Hospital in recent months had to retain a “strategic and operational performance improvement” consultant after breaching debt coverage obligations amid declining patient days and occupancy percentages. Just two miles west, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics is overrun with as many as 70 people waiting in the emergency room at one time. → Read More
Republican bill would ban DEI spending at Iowa universities
Republican lawmakers Wednesday began “dismantling the (diversity, equity, and inclusion/critical race theory) bureaucracies existing at our regional institutions” by advancing a bill barring Iowa’s public universities from spending money on DEI offices, employees, and programming. → Read More
Iowa has second-highest cancer rate; only state with cancer cases rising
Fifty years after Iowa began collecting and analyzing data on residents diagnosed with cancer through its Iowa Cancer Registry, statistics reveal Iowa has the second-highest cancer incidence rate in the nation and is the only state with a rising rate of cancer. → Read More
Hawkeye coaches dismissed from discrimination lawsuit; UI remains defendant
The former Hawkeye football players who in 2020 filed a lawsuit accusing the UI football program of racial discrimination and harassment have dropped their claims against head coach Kirk Ferentz, offensive coordinator Brian Ferentz, Athletic Director Gary Barta, and former strength coach Chris Doyle. → Read More
Claims against Hawkeye coach Wallace dropped in discrimination case
Nearly a year after former Hawkeye football players added linebackers coach Seth Wallace to their list of defendants in a discrimination lawsuit against the University of Iowa Athletics Department, they’ve dropped all claims against him. → Read More
University of Iowa, Iowa State bestowing four honorary degrees
Iowa State will award an honorary doctor of humane letters degree to Trudy Huskamp Peterson, the first female U.S. archivist. (Iowa State University) They’ve gone to the likes of actor Gene Wilder — whose roles included Willy Wonka in the 1970s film adaptation of Roald Dahl’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” — along with George Gallup, founder of the Gallup Poll; former Iowa Gov. Robert Ray;… → Read More
Iowa universities drill down on ChatGPT technology
Acknowledging the reality that students, workers, employers and corporations will be using artificial intelligence and chat bot technology — and, in many cases, already are — Iowa’s public universities are issuing guidance, forming committees, crafting assignments and churning out research on how to use it, how to benefit from it and how to guard against its limitations and potential harms. → Read More
Regent report finds universities have $15B impact in Iowa
With lawmakers in the throes of deciding how much to appropriate Iowa’s public universities for the upcoming budget year, the Board of Regents this week released a new “economic impact report” showing its campuses collectively added $14.9 billion to the state’s economy in the 2022 budget year. → Read More
University of Iowa employee performance awards surge amid pandemic
The University of Iowa’s efforts to acknowledge and reward good work come as UI Health Care reports 500 to 600 open nursing positions, and the broader campus reports its most faculty resignations since at least 2006 — with 92 in fiscal 2022. → Read More
University of Iowa looks at factory for making renewable fuel pellets
In its push to become coal-free by 2025 – or sooner – by adding more “green” to its energy palette, the University of Iowa is considering a second utilities-related public-private partnership, this one for the production of renewable fuel pellets to help power its sprawling campus. → Read More
Iowa universities eye change in campuses they consider ‘peers’
For the first time in decades, all three of Iowa’s public universities want to update the peer institutions with which they compare themselves to “more closely align” with their respective campuses. → Read More
University of Iowa looks to sell Mayflower Residence Hall
Nearly 55 years after a private firm built the Mayflower Apartment Community overlooking the Iowa River, marketed to students as a “luxury” dorm – and 40 years after the University of Iowa bought the eight-story building outright – UI is planning to sell its Mayflower Residence Hall. → Read More
Cost to replace UI Children’s Hospital windows could triple to $45M
Compounding escalating costs associated with the University of Iowa’s construction of its 14-story Stead Family Children’s Hospital, campus officials are asking permission to spend $45 million replacing damaged windows on nine floors – tripling the $15 million they originally planned to spend replacing cracked or delaminated windows on two floors. → Read More