{"id":42485,"date":"2026-01-23T14:09:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T14:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=42485"},"modified":"2026-01-23T14:09:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T14:09:27","slug":"iowa-lawmakers-seek-to-end-student-vote-on-board-of-regents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=42485","title":{"rendered":"Iowa Lawmakers Seek to End Student Vote on Board of Regents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The University of Iowa is one of three public institutions overseen by the board.<\/p>\n<p>A voting student position on the Iowa Board of Regents would be eliminated under a new bill advanced by the Hawkeye State\u2019s House higher education subcommittee, <em>The Iowa Capital Dispatch<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n<p>If passed and signed into law, the bill would replace the student regent with a ninth one appointed by the governor. In addition, seven new nonvoting member seats would be established: three for students, two for state senators and two for state representatives.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The proposed legislation also details several new policies and programs the board would be required to establish and would give members of the state\u2019s General Assembly the ability to override board and university expenditures through a joint resolution.<\/p>\n<p>The policies outlined align with the key higher education priorities for Republicans in the statehouse who hold a majority. They include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Establishing a post-tenure review process<\/li>\n<li>Developing approval standards for new academic programs<\/li>\n<li>Barring faculty senates from \u201cexercising any governance authority over the institution\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Conducting biennial reviews of all general education requirements and low-enrollment academic programs<\/li>\n<li>Creating an ombudsman office that will \u201cinvestigate complaints of violations of state or federal law or board policy\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Iowa\u2019s Board of Regents serves as a centralized governing body overseeing all three of the state\u2019s four-year institutions\u2014the University of Iowa, Iowa State University and the University of Northern Iowa. Public community colleges are overseen by locally elected boards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Iowa is one of three public institutions overseen by the board. A voting student position on the Iowa Board of Regents would be eliminated under a new bill advanced by the Hawkeye State\u2019s House higher education subcommittee, The Iowa Capital Dispatch reported. If passed and signed into law, the bill would replace<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[1286,7334,5053,22387,3002,393,139],"class_list":{"0":"post-42485","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-education","8":"tag-board","9":"tag-iowa","10":"tag-lawmakers","11":"tag-regents","12":"tag-seek","13":"tag-student","14":"tag-vote"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}