News Archive

The top three bachelor's degrees, by college, conferred at Iowa State last year.

Are they a distraction, valuable, necessary, guilty pleasure or fledgling chimera in need of some guidance? ISU instructors and staff share their thoughts.

Faculty, staff and IT professionals will be able to get enterprise-quality computers for less through an agreement jointly negotiated by the state universities.

President Steven Leath will reorganize ISU business and financial operations this summer. Several other changes in reporting structures and position titles also are planned.

Cyclone softball takes the field this weekend.

A draft of Iowa State's next strategic plan is ready for review. Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to read and comment on the document, which lays out Iowa State's priorities and focus over the next six years.

Spring classes resumed this week to a mixed bag of weather.

A safer Lincoln Way is the end goal of a study of the "Iowa State" stretch of the busy road. The study makes use of video cams to count and record behavior of vehicles and pedestrians at intersections and mid-block crossings.

Members of the Faculty Senate will vote next month on a proposed mandatory seminar for incoming international undergraduates. The course is intended to help with the transition to life at an American university.

Iowa State is one of several schools in the University Innovation Alliance that increased graduation numbers among low-income students last academic year.

Margo Foreman, associate director of the office of equal opportunity at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, is ISU's next director of equal opportunity. She joins Iowa State April 25.

The economic development core facility anchors the park's new third phase.

The Professional and Scientific Council approved a set of guidelines for P&S staff with for-credit teaching responsibilities, asking the human resources and provost offices to make it available to teaching staff, supervisors and department chairs.

Information on each finalist, including name, resume and visit schedule, will be shared four to five days prior to her or his arrival.

A new aquarium is nearly double the capacity of the one it replaced in a Vet Med student lounge.

Distance education report, 2016-17 proposed parking rates, a larger budget for the biosciences building projects and a physics-engineering articulation agreement with Northern Iowa also were on the agenda.

Iowa State's annual conference on race and ethnicity returns for its 17th year, now named for founder and retiring vice president for student affairs Tom Hill. ISU employees are invited to participate in a professional development opportunity today, with a full slate of presentations and discussions for the university community on tap for Friday.

Faculty and staff members with recreation services memberships have the opportunity to participate in more than 40 intramural activities.