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This week, university leaders shared the names of 68 Iowa State faculty and staff -- 61 individuals and two teams -- who received a 2026 university award, the highest recognitions available to employees. They'll be honored at a community celebration this fall.

An external consultant will be hired to assess how Iowa State's current budget model aligns with the strategic plan, academic priorities, peer best practices and long-term financial sustainability. The goal is a budget framework that promotes transparency, supports growth and enables the university to respond effectively to evolving needs and opportunities.

A council of campus marketing and communications leaders will develop strategies for internal communications, fulfilling a recommendation from a working group last year to optimize organizational structure for marketing and communications.

Students have reached that point in the semester: It's time to find workable solutions to the challenges and get class projects to the finish line.

Employees are encouraged to continue remediating digital content and developing habit-building accessibility practices even as the new deadline is April 26, 2027.

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.

The end of the semester in mid-May will trigger the start of a much-anticipated project to restore and upgrade Lake LaVerne. Draining, dredging and excavating the lake bottom will occur this summer; implementing the design plan for Lake LaVerne will continue into November.

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 before it was dredged to restore water depths. Campus planners answer some of our curious questions.

The Regents template is required to be posted online for all undergraduate courses. The Iowa State template, a more detailed document, must be present in Canvas for all undergraduate courses.

Provost Jason Keith told the Iowa Board of Regents April 22 that Iowa State will follow its established procedures for eliminating and consolidating degree programs as part of the under-enrolled program review directed by the board. Since November, academic leaders reviewed 35 ISU graduate programs and 12 undergraduate programs with enrollments that fell below thresholds established by the regents and recommended one of four actions for each.

Summer promotions for 76 faculty cleared their final hurdles and were posted on the provost's website today. They include advancement for 30 term faculty and promotions for 46 tenured or tenure-track faculty.

ISU Extension and Outreach connects Iowans with opportunities to innovate: youth get hands-on AI education, food entrepreneurs try a mobile processing cart and farmers examine livestock tech in the field. Read about these advances in this fifth installment of news services' spring series, "Innovation at Work."

The four capstone projects focused on access to graduation regalia, first-generation students, connecting with alumni and the Student Innovation Center.

Warmer temperatures and plenty of sunshine drew students, faculty and staff outside across campus earlier this week.

Two-day campus visits are scheduled between April 23 and May 5, and will include a public forum in Parks Library on the first day of each candidate's visit.

Faculty, staff and students can bring food and non-food items to a campus location or make a financial contribution online to the annual United Way of Story County food drive. Campus donations will go to campus food pantries.

The Adventure Program provides faculty and staff with trips, equipment rental and other ways to take advantage of the warmer weather.

The proposed changes are intended to give term faculty more clarity and bring their process closer to tenure-track faculty as ISU continues to strive for one faculty.

Campus leaders shared this spring emergency weather message with all university employees and students on April 15.