Colleges and universities

A decision this week had Hawkeye and Big Ten football fans shouting for joy. The Big Ten is going to give fall football a shot after all. The decision comes less than five weeks after pushing fall sports to spring for the sake of player safety during the pandemic.

Host Ben Kieffer is joined by Buena Vista University interim President Brian Lenzmeier to talk about how his campus has been navigating the pandemic and his background in virology.

On this edition of the River to River podcast, host Ben Kieffer speaks with University of Northern Iowa President Mark Nook about how the Cedar Falls campus and community have been adjusting to the pandemic.

It survived the Great Depression and World War II. Now, the University of Iowa Swim and Dive program is slated to end after 103 years. Ben Kieffer speaks with head coach Marc Long and swimmers Sage Ohlensehlen and Grace Reeder.

Host Ben Kieffer speaks with three reporters covering health, higher education and Iowa State athletics to unpack some of the latest news and developments across Iowa's college towns as cases of COVID-19 continue to rise on campuses.

Iowa was the first state in the country to re-start high school athletics with baseball and softball early in the summer. On this edition of Talk of Iowa, how both high school and college athletic programs are approaching fall sports.

Gov. Kim Reynolds has ordered all bars, taverns, breweries and nightclubs in Black Hawk, Dallas, Johnson, Linn, Polk and Story counties to close effective Thursday evening. Restaurants will be required to stop serving liquor after 10 p.m.

A University of Iowa student who was possibly exposed to COVID-19 says he’s had a disappointing experience in a quarantine dorm. Meanwhile, another student's account on her experience in an isolation room circulated around social media and received an apology from the university.

Drake University added a page to its history book this week by hiring its first Latino dean. In his new role, Alejandro Hernandez said he plans on adding not only to the Drake community, but to Iowa.

While her peers were renting their first post-grad apartments, Kari Grindberg was moving into a different residence -- a senior living community in Pella,…