Iowa’s Board of Regents ---meeting in Ames today---will be setting tuition at the three state universities.
Today’s vote –hiking undergraduate ….. tuition three-point-nine-percent---at the University of Iowa and Iowa State is nearly a full-percent more than Regents last November were predicting last November.
But …that was contingent on state legislators appropriating 18-million dollars to the Regents. But they’re receiving six-million less.
Even so…Regent Milt Dakovich…says he likes the Board’s new predictability plan….
Audio: “I think it’s a lot better mechanism than we’ve had in the past. Previously, we’ve been setting tuition prior to the legislative session. We’ll start now after the legislative session. Provides a lot more predictability for students and their families.”
Today’s vote is for no tuition increase at the University of Northern Iowa---- to help UNI compete for students.
Ron Peterson has announced his retirement as the publisher of The Journal, ending a 20-year career leading one of Iowa's largest daily papers.
His last official day will be June 30. Chad Pauling, The Journal's retail advertising director, has been named interim publisher. A national search will take place for Peterson's successor, a process that’s expected to take eight to 12 weeks, The Journal is owned by Lee Enterprises, a Davenport, based media company
Peterson, who has been Journal publisher since November 1999, said working 35 years in the publishing business, including 30 years as a publisher,
