The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will begin a multiyear initiative to right-size a budget with a deficit due to changing enrollment and student demand and position the college for the next decade.
Adjusting the compensation structure doesn't automatically move any employee's salary, but it increases earning potential in the years ahead. The change will impact about 200 P&S employees whose pay places them either below the new minimum or back within the new maximum of their pay grades.
The draft plan unveiled in town halls this month is really a strategic process for yearly review, priority-setting and projects, designed to propel the university forward while ensuring some flexibility in the face of changing conditions.
The 25 Year Club will gather next week to honor 110 Iowa State faculty and staff who celebrated notably lengthy work anniversaries in 2021 -- with a combined 3,260 years of university service.
Canvas is phasing out Classic Quizzes and replacing it with New Quizzes, giving instructors more options and improved accessibility. It will be enabled campuswide on June 1, but Classic Quizzes will not sunset until June 30, 2024.
During the ISU Foundation's first Forever True Day, scheduled from noon March 1 to noon March 2, donors can choose from among hundreds of funds to support.
The fifth annual college-by-college pitch off wrapped up this week with the campuswide finale, capping off two weeks of students stepping up to make the case for their innovative ideas.
Other Iowa State items on the meeting agenda include two new centers, an honorary degree, changes to public radio and a second phase for the Veterinary Diagnostic Lab.
With the university's contract with DocuSign expiring this spring, the registrar's office selected another e-signature platform, Microsoft Forms' Power Automate, for its schedule change forms. The new forms go live in AccessPlus Feb. 28.
The office of the vice president for research needs your help to prepare Iowa State's fourth application to higher ed's Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Rating System -- known as STARS. The first three efforts produced gold results. The goal this year is platinum.
