Legacy to loss as University of Iowa jettisons former AIB campus in Des Moines - the Gazette

“Our merger with the University of Iowa is the logical next step for our future, providing an innovative opportunity to continue AIB’s tradition,” Williams, then the college’s president, said during that Jan. 26 news conference. She had spoken with her father, Keith Fenton, who was AIB president for 42 years before her, about her decision to give away most of the 20-acre campus worth more than $30 million to the UI. But AIB never became the University of Iowa-Des Moines. Its 1,000-some students never became Hawkeyes, as was proposed. And while the UI in 2016 did begin offering four programs at what eventually was named the Iowa Center for Higher Education — available to all three of Iowa’s public universities — soon it will close. Last month, current UI President Bruce Harreld announced the center is among seven his institution no longer will fund in light of state budget cuts. https://www.thegazette.com/subject/news/education/legacy-to-loss-as-university-of-iowa-jettisons-former-aib-college-of-business-campus-des-moines-donation-bruce-harreld-sally-mason-20180804