Senior leaders approved funding to add 14 positions to the 127 custodians budgeted for the current fiscal year. Including current vacancies, ISU needs to hire about 20 custodians to be fully staffed for the new cleaning coverage.
About 15% of eligible staff requested a flexible work arrangement under the new WorkFlex program, and nearly 95% of the requests were approved, according to data UHR leaders shared at the Professional and Scientific Council's Jan. 6 meeting.
When the semester begins Tuesday, registrar staff will receive walk-in clients at 2157 Hixson-Lied Building, admissions staff will serve walk-in guests at 2630 Memorial Union (office of new student programs).
About 50 faculty are leading a course in Iowa State's second winter session pilot, which concludes Friday. Inside caught up with one of them.
Faculty, staff and students will have another opportunity to get vaccinated on campus soon, one of many spring semester public health measures that will resemble those in the fall, with one key exception.
Extension will recruit among its staff, faculty, council members and administrators for diversity ambassadors, front-line representatives to ensure the organization is meaningfully accessible to the widest range of Iowans.
The pandemic compelled the state Board of Regents to stop requiring a national standardized test score for admission to a regent university. Now they'll make that change permanent -- but automatic admission still is calculable with it.
