As part of the third annual IowaWatch college media project, 10 student journalists at seven Iowa campuses conducted interviews with graduating students to delve into the issue of brain drain in Iowa. The interviews reveal students' post-graduation plans and reasons for either leaving or staying in
When Donna Musel started work as Buena Vista University’s disabilities coordinator only two students with illnesses requested classroom accommodations to help them do their college studies. “Now I have quite a few more than that,” Musel said this spring.
Thanksgiving weekend football has become as much a part of the holiday festivities as the turkey. When the Hawkeyes go up against the University of Nebraska and the Cyclones face West Virginia this weekend, they will participate in long-standing traditions. Just how long-standing? Find out in this I
DES MOINES, Iowa — Some hard work and a little luck has left a handful of graduating seniors at Drake University free of any student-loan debt, and anxiety about wading
When it comes to telling voters who is spending money on political ads, Iowa fails.
It got an “F” in a recent study on state disclosure policies for political spending
IowaWatch project with college student journalists in Iowa shows that, despite growing numbers of state and federal programs aimed at improving students' financial literacy and years of talk about Iowa's high student debt, students continue to graduate with debt that will follow them long after they
