"Iowa's legislative session began roughly three weeks ago, and the state's House Higher Education Committee and its subcommittees have already advanced sweeping legislation that could threaten universities' budgets, change who has a vote on the board overseeing public universities, increase direct legislative oversight of these universities, and more. The Republican leading these pushes has called gender studies degrees "garbage" and made other criticism of what universities teach."
"ban tuition increases for resident undergraduate students at the state's three public universities until July 2031; make the universities liable for 10 percent of students' defaulted loans; tax public and private institution endowments that exceed $500 million (affecting at least the University of Iowa, Iowa State University and Grinnell College) and directing the revenue to tuition for "high-wage" and "high-demand" jobs;"
Iowa's House Higher Education Committee and its subcommittees have advanced multiple bills that would reshape public and private higher education funding, governance, and academic rules. Proposals include a ban on resident undergraduate tuition increases through July 2031, making universities liable for 10 percent of defaulted student loans, and taxing institutional endowments over $500 million to fund tuition for specified high-wage, high-demand programs. Additional measures would restrict disclosure in university presidential searches, enable community colleges to offer some bachelor's degrees, allow non-ABA law school graduates to sit for the bar, and require Regents to design a performance-based funding model tied to graduate retention. Faculty warn of encroachment on Regents authority and shared governance.
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