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Professors switch quickly to online teaching, noting few benefits, more hours, less interaction

By Danielle Gehr / IowaWatch | April 30, 2020

University of Northern Iowa professor Anelia Dimitrova expected the coronavirus would cause a two-week spring break extension – not a swift end to campus life and the beginning of teaching online. She thought it was odd, she said, when one of her students noted in March that their last class before spring break could be their last meeting in person.

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Bias-Response Teams Criticized For Sanitizing Campuses Of Dissent

By Jasmine Putney and Shelby Knowles/News21 | September 4, 2018

Responding to a steep rise in reports of hate crimes on campus, at least 260 colleges and universities have implemented bias-response teams or other reporting policies to track such incidents. But the teams have created friction of their own, as conservative students, controversial speakers and followers of the alt-right movement claim colleges are sanitizing campuses of dissent, in violation of the First Amendment’s right to free speech.

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Iowa City mobile home park replacement promises unkept

Promised help for residents at a deteriorating mobile home park tabbed for redevelopment hasn't happened, so something new is needed.

Source: The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, IA)

Register watchdog report leads to state investigation

Two state agencies and a non-profit legal aid organization for low-income residents are investigating property managers named in a Des Moines Register watchdog story for allegedly ignoring rental property defects.

Source: Des Moines Register

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