In budget cut, U of Northern Iowa to close museum - Ryan J. Foley, Associated Press

The University of Northern Iowa said Thursday it would close a 120-year-old campus natural history museum, trim subsidies for athletics and outsource campus printing services as part of a strategic plan to save money for other academic priorities. The announcement from President Ben Allen came one day after school administrators announced plans to close Malcolm Price Laboratory School, a K-12 building that had been at the center of its efforts to train teachers and conduct education research for decades. All of the plans need approval from the Iowa Board of Regents, who govern the state’s three public universities, and supporters said they are mobilizing to fight the closure of the museum and the lab school.