SOV musical performances, weekday picnic lunches, free evening entertainment, awards ceremonies, student tournaments. It must be Veishea time -- and it's underway.
The Cyclones have nine home games in April, including a three-game series with Big 12 Conference foe Texas during Veishea and a Cy-Hawk Series showdown against Iowa April 21.
Learn about the efficiency review underway at Iowa State at an April 1 public forum in Howe Hall auditorium. The forum starts at 10 a.m. and will include remarks by President Steven Leath and Board of Regents members, a presentation by Deloitte Consulting and a Q&A session. The review is part of the regents comprehensive study of Iowa's three public universities.
A new innovation hub in Parks Library is intended to spur development and use of online and blended learning approaches. The Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching oversees programming for the center.
Iowa's public university presidents shared their preferences for performance-based funding March 13 with a regents-appointed task force studying different ways to allocate the state's higher education funding among the three schools.
The city of Ames will remove and reconstruct Sheldon Avenue along the west side of campus this summer. The work will be done in four stages, the first of which will begin on Monday, April 7.
The visit will include a campus forum, to be led by President Steven Leath, and meetings with campus stakeholders. The team is scheduled to visit Iowa City March 31-April 4 and Cedar Falls April 7-11.
Three new interdisciplinary degree programs -- two in gerontology and one for learning and leadership -- were introduced at the March 11 Faculty Senate meeting, and a proposed "Teaching English as a Second Language" interdisciplinary minor was approved.
A motion that recommended an average salary increase of 2.9 percent and a 1.5 percent across-the-board increase for the professional and scientific salary matrix was approved at the March 6 P&S Council meeting. The council also learned more about the state's focus on an increase in workers' compensation claims.
Construction progress continues at the agricultural and biosystems engineering facility on the west side of campus. The first faculty and staff should be moving in by late May, with most moves occurring during June and July.
Iowa State leaders express disappointment with Ames voters' rejection of a bond referendum that would have paid for half of a proposed renovation and convention space addition to the Scheman Building.
When it meets March 12 in Iowa City, the state Board of Regents will review proposed parking permit and residence system rate increases for next year. The board won't vote on the proposals until April.
