Post-secondary education

Although the cost of college seems to always increase, a college graduate still earns more, on average, than someone who didn’t graduate. But some communities face barriers to earning a degree or obtaining needed training.

Existing college athletes staying on teams to make up for the COVID-19 off-year is making it harder for graduating high school athletes to get in the game.

The Board of Regents voted to increase tuition for all three of Iowa’s state universities. The decision comes after a decades-long decrease in state higher education funding.

Western Iowa university students took to restoring one of the nation’s largest urban prairies back to its natural state.

El Marshalltown Community College (MCC) está a pocos puntos porcentuales de lograr un importante acontecimiento federal.

One of Iowa’s community colleges is closing in on a federal designation that would open grant opportunities to provide more student services.

The western Iowa college purchased more than 70 acres of land from Woodbury County to be used for its agricultural and food studies students.

Iowa State researchers have received a grant of approximately $2 million from the National Institutes of Health to study the production of blood stem cells in zebrafish.

The bill approved by the Republican-controlled House allows only those born female to play girls’ and women’s sports. Transgender girls would be forced to compete with boys.

Host Charity Nebbe learns how athletic programs at Iowa Central Community College and Iowa Western Community College have become national powerhouses. Then, Emil and Caleb Polashek reflect on the education career of their wife and mother Mary Kay Polashek, who's been teaching at Ames High School for 35 years. Mary Kay was recently diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.