A professor at the University of Iowa has offered Thanksgiving meals to students that are stuck on campus as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Professor Elizabeth Pearce received an outpouring of praise and support after her message to her students went viral.
The attorney representing eight Black former Iowa football players who allege racial discrimination during their time with the Hawkeyes said Monday night that the university’s rejection of their demands, which included a payment of $20 million, is not the end of the matter.
The University of Iowa rebuffed demands from a group of black former athletes who demanded $20 million in damages for the “racial discrimination.”
The University of Iowa announced this week that it will be forced to spend $1 million to repair the damage that occurred during a recent Black Lives Matter protest. A group called the Iowa Freedom Riders spraypainted phrases like “BLM” and “Say their names” on university buildings. Now, the university claims it has preserved some of the graffiti for “educational programming.”
Student protesters shut down an Iowa Board of Regents meeting last week demanding a tuition freeze, as well as a response to alleged “acts of racism and white supremacy” across university campuses in Iowa.
A professor from the University of Arizona argued last week that the term “white privilege” should be replaced with the term “white immunity.” The term was created to suggest that white Americans are “immune” to poor treatment by society.
Failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams told an audience of college students Monday that she would be “happy” to run as the Democrats’ vice presidential candidate in 2020.
A federal judge ruled on Friday that the University of Iowa has violated a Christian group’s First Amendment rights, the judge’s second ruling on the school’s treatment of Christians this year. This time, individual administrators may be held accountable for the infringement, because according to the judge, they should have known better after her first ruling.
The University of Iowa’s recently hired Associate Vice President for Diversity has resigned just seven weeks after taking the post.
The University of Iowa will spend $2.8 million on diversity programming in 2019 alone, including $1.95 million to pay the salaries of 32 diversity staffers.
Democrat 2020 hopeful Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke drew a lackluster turnout at a Sunday afternoon campaign rally in Iowa.
The University of Iowa has canceled a scheduled “whiteness” workshop after it received criticism and scrutiny from the community.
(AP) — The body of a University of Iowa student has been found on the campus, and officials say they believe his death was weather related.
The University of Iowa hosted a conference on “white privilege” this semester in an effort to allow white students a space “to discuss whiteness and its privileges with other white people.”
In a lecture at Iowa State University, University of Michigan Professor Anne Curzan argued that the English language is “sexist.”
An Iowa lawmaker is working in the state legislature to stop the University of Iowa from playing on Friday nights because he feels it conflicts with high school football programs across the state.
A litigious atheist organization known for its lawsuits challenging Christian prayer and symbols in public spaces and Bibles in public schools is now voicing objection to the designation of a Muslim prayer space at the University of Iowa (UI).
The University of Iowa (UI) has dedicated two rooms of the Iowa Memorial Union as a prayer space for its growing Muslim student population, which is required to pray five times per day.
On Tuesday, members of the Iowa football team endorsed Donald Trump at a rally at the University of Iowa.
GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump was endorsed by the University of Iowa Hawkeye football team on Tuesday night at his rally in Iowa City, Iowa.
