The U.S. Department of Justice recently updated regulations in the Americans with Disabilities Act to ensure that public entities' web content and mobile apps are accessible and compliant by April 24, 2026. Making sure all ISU courses satisfy regulations will be key for departments and instructors between now and the deadline.
The state Board of Regents also approved tuition and fees for fall, an FY25 salary policy for merit employees, president's salary increase and a market adjustment to the pay matrix for P&S employees.
The fountain's plumbing system is getting tested in anticipation of the return of the Fountain of the Four Seasons limestone and terra cotta sculpture in early August.
The change will create cross-functional service teams combining expertise from multiple areas to serve a portion of campus, rather than siloed functions serving all of campus.
As part of the university's commitment to using a single enterprise system, the sign-on dashboard and multifactor authentication will move from Okta to Microsoft by late summer. A related change is that an individual's full ISU email address -- not just Net-ID -- will become the sign-in standard.
A two-hour resource fair in the Student Innovation Center is a popular option among students and families on Day 2 of new student orientation this month.
Some of the descriptive language we choose for our links . . . actually isn't. Inside worked with the communications and digital accessibility teams in IT Services to identify a few best practices for creating helpful and accessible links in digital content.
It provides information on 20 topics from a real-time visitor count to personal training and fitness classes. The most popular feature is the digital ID generator users scan for entry to the facility.
It takes about an hour, on average, to deep clean a residence hall room. With nearly 5,000 rooms and apartments on campus, it's no small task each summer for the residence department's custodian team.
All openings -- faculty, professional and scientific, merit -- that are posted externally via Workday and appear on the ISU Jobs site will be shared to LinkedIn and an audience of millions.
An estimated 5,900 first-year students and 800 transfer students are registered for Iowa State orientation (in-person and virtual), which kicks off May 29.
The change takes effect July 1. The cost isn't charged to the unit; rather, UHR's talent acquisition team will manage the background checks during the hiring process the same way it does for other employee groups.
Summer typically brings a noticeable uptick in construction and maintenance projects. Read about some of the work starting, ending and continuing over the next few months.
Jason Keith, dean of the James Worth Bagley College of Engineering at Mississippi State University for the past 10 years, was named Iowa State's next senior vice president and provost this week. He'll arrive Aug. 1.
The state Board of Regents held a first reading of proposed tuition increases for the 2024-25 academic year at its May 10 meeting. As proposed, resident undergraduates would pay $10,787 in tuition and mandatory fees, an increase of $290 (2.8%) over this year.
The recognitions, which include a cash award funded by an anonymous donor, are the fourth in a series and recognize exemplary work by recruiting and enrollment management professionals.
As of May 13, approximately 20,380 returning students completed onboarding tasks and nearly 19,000 students registered for fall classes, with 87% of undergraduates registering for 12 or more credits.
