What attracted you to Iowa State?
A couple things. One, I was looking to be a university president, and I have a long history both educationally and with experience at land-grant universities. There really is …
Exceeding $1 trillion, student debt now outpaces credit card debt. Ever-increasing college tuition is forcing more and more students to borrow, with 94 percent of students who earn bachelor’s degrees taking out loans to pay …
Gov. Terry Branstad, Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds and state Department of Education Director Jason Glass today announced that they will host the Iowa Teacher and Principal Leadership symposium Aug. 3 at Drake University. The event …
Pamela Anthony, assistant dean of students at Georgia State University in Atlanta, will begin as Iowa State University’s dean of students on Aug. 1. Anthony has served as assistant dean of students at Georgia State …
Vatterott College in Des Moines has added two new programs in the heating and air conditioning field.
Vatterott now offers a degree in heating, air conditioning and refrigeration service (HACR), and a HACR with management associate …
Iowa education, business and civic leaders will meet next Tuesday to discuss the framework for Gov. Terry Branstad’s new STEM Initiative, focused on increasing the availability of science, technology, engineering and mathematics education to rural …
Iowa State University yesterday named Jonathan Wickert as the university’s next senior vice president and provost. Wickert is currently dean of the College of Engineering at Iowa State, a position he has held since 2009. …
Six communities across Iowa were selected as the first locations to implement Gov. Terry Branstad’s new initiative to better prepare students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
Branstad said STEM jobs are among the …
Tomorrow night, Tim Haughton, an Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations at Johns Hopkins University, will speak about the European Union’s solidarity and vulnerability.
The event will be held at …
The World Food Prize Foundation is hosting an event today for high school students and teachers who are interested in science, agriculture, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects. The event, called the Iowa Youth Institute, is …
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