Drake University reorganizes to cut costs and reshape teaching
Drake University President Michael Ferrari reveals a sweeping reorganization to save about 550000 annually. The plan creates a College of Arts and Sciences merging Fine Arts, outlines broader liberal arts aims, and shifts education majors toward their principal subjects. Some courses are dropped and several master's programs and a Doctorate of Arts in English are discontinued.
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DES Moines
Drake University
Michael Ferrari
Ferrari
College of Arts and Sciences
College of Fine Arts
State trims mileage reimbursements and fleet size
DES MOINES AP More state employees will use their own cars on state business starting July 1 and receive smaller mileage reimbursement. The rate drops from 24 to 21 cents per mile saving about 500000 yearly, with a goal to cut 100 state vehicles and require 19800 miles per year to keep a state car. Don McKee of AFSCME criticizes the plan as budget balancing on employees.
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Des Moines
Jack Walters
Iowa Department of General Services
Walters
Don McKee
American Federation of State
Eastern lowans named to liability study panel
Gazette Des Moines Bureau reports three Eastern Iowans join a legislative interim committee to study changes in tort liability. Members include Rapids, Hummel, Rep. Roger Halvorson, and others such as Donald C. Byers, Thomas Vilsack, and Frank Alexander. Legislative co chairs are Sen. Donald Doyle and Rep. Dan Jay with additional senators and representatives listed.
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Gazette
Des Moines Bureau
Des Moines
Iowa
Hummel
R-Vinton
Roger Halvorson
R-Monona
Donald C. Byers
Maytag
Newton
Thomas Vilsack
Mount Pleasant
Frank Alexander
United Auto Workers
Waterloo
Donald Doyle
Sioux City
Cochair
Dan Jay
Centerville
William Palmer
Ddes Moines
Julia Gentleman
Richard Drake
Muscatine
John Groninga
Mason City
Discrepancy Delays Iowa Drunk-Driver Jail Plan
Legislation on jailed drunken drivers stalls as the Iowa Department of Corrections seeks an attorney general opinion on two similar bills. One would provide beds for substance abusers in eight districts. the other allows a flexible facility plan. Pending AG ruling, $833,000 in funding awaits allocation and program standards are set.
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Liz Gear
Ette News
Des Moines
Hal Farrier
Department of Corrections
Farrier
Iowa
Board of Corrections
Department of Substance Abuse
Ethics panel wins subpoena power over DCI report on Mingo party
The Iowa House Ethics Committee gains subpoena power to obtain the confidential Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation report on a Mingo bachelor party involving legislators. The move aims to guide a formal complaint alleging nude dancing and a sex act with a legislator, amid concerns about public leakage and future investigations.
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DCI
Mingo Party
Judy Daubenmier
Des Moines
House
Legislative Council
House Ethics Committee
Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation
Jack Holveck
D-Des Moines
Donald Avenson
D-Oelwein
Department of Public Safety
Division of Criminal Investigation
Avenson
al Sturgeon
Sioux City
Holveck
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