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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 office of the senior vice president and provost has announced $2.4 million in funding across two years for 24 transformative initiatives to support new academic programs, student success and career readiness, and build additional capacity in artificial intelligence.

Promotion and tenure requests for 46 Iowa State faculty and a final review of tuition rates for 2026-27 are on the agenda when the Iowa Board of Regents meets April 22-23 at the ISU Alumni Center. The board also will elect a president and president pro-tem to serve two-year terms that begin May 1.

A roughly 50-year computing era at Iowa State will wind down on June 1 when the high-performance mainframe system is turned off, the drives destroyed and the IBM cabinets removed from the data center in the Durham Center basement.

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.

Not everything will be accessible on April 24. Chief information security officer Rich Tener said not to panic but be proactive in fixing the highest priority items and move forward from there.

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

At the 91st banquet of Iowa State's 25 Year Club this week, 139 faculty and staff were honored for 25, 35, 45 or 50 years of consecutive employment during calendar year 2025.

The outcomes include the recommended closure, merger or consolidation of 23 degree programs with low enrollments -- designated by the Iowa Board of Regents as fewer than 25 majors in an undergraduate program and fewer than 10 majors in a graduate program.

The two sides of Hyland will be reconstructed in separate stages, each lasting an estimated six to seven weeks, weather permitting. Pammel Drive will be inaccessible from Hyland during the project.

In between the rainy days, campus services teams are adding mulch to beds around campus.

By offing free workshops to tax preparers on agricultural income tax issues, a new Iowa State program is intended to ensure more farmers have access to trusted tax guidance.