As the Iowa Legislature seeks to finish its session, it is now essential for all of us to take an objective look at the proposed closing of the Malcolm Price Laboratory School, Iowa’s R&D School. We need to ask a simple question about the rationale for the closing: where is the evidence? Because if you [...]
Entries from April 2012
Where is the evidence in the rush to close Price Lab?
April 29th, 2012 · No Comments
Tags: NCAA · Politics · Price Lab School · State Budgets · Universities · University of Northern Iowa
What the U.S. News & World Report college rankings can teach us about UNI’s budget
April 2nd, 2012 · No Comments
The idea for this column started with a nagging question: why does Truman State, the former Northeast Missouri State University, keep beating the University of Northern Iowa every year in the U.S. News & World Report rankings of Midwestern public universities? For several years, UNI has appeared among the top-ranked public universities in the Midwest [...]
Tags: NCAA · Price Lab School · Sports · State Budgets · Universities · University of Northern Iowa