Inside Iowa State

Meeting on campus April 23, the Iowa Board of Regents approved tuition rates for fall and elected board leaders for the next two years. In advance of their summer discussion of employee salary increase parameters, they also received oral reports from elected leaders of non-unionized employee groups at the three regent universities.

There hasn't been a project like this at the lake since 1959 -- the last time the lake was drained, then dredged, to restore water depths. Campus planners answer some of our "just curious" questions. 

Summer promotions for 78 faculty cleared their final hurdles and were posted on the provost's website April 23. They include advancement for 32 term faculty and promotions for 46 tenured or tenure-track faculty.

Explorance Blue will be tested in a pilot during the summer and launch in the fall. The current tool, Class Climate, still will be used this spring.

A team of campus marketing and communications leaders will develop strategies for universitywide internal communications, following a recommendation from a working group last year to optimize organizational structure for a coordinated approach to marketing and communications.

Employees are encouraged to continue remediating digital content and developing habit-building accessibility practices, even with a revised compliance deadline of April 26, 2027.