Study finds 'big ideas' for University of Iowa's future lacking - Vanessa Miller, the Gazette

After nearly two years of meetings, public forums and deliberations involving hundreds of people on campus, a new website and outreach to national leaders, a University of Iowa committee charged with studying reorganization and recommending changes to the institution has concluded without producing any. “This was probably not the best time to ask the UI community to think long-term,” according to a newly-released report compiled by the university’s “2020 Phase II Committee.” That group emanated from an original task force charged in January 2017 with studying “reasonable organizational changes” and suggesting possibilities for restructuring academic units. That original task force — which included four collegiate deans — produced a report in September 2017 that, among other things, suggested “the status quo is unacceptable” and that units need “to be optimized to promote faculty productivity and student success.” https://www.thegazette.com/subject/news/education/study-finds-big-ideas-for-university-of-iowas-future-lacking-20181214