Local Highlights and Events
Legal Assistance for individuals affected by changes to DACA
My students in the University of Iowa Law Clinic's immigration practice area are extremely motivated to provide assistance to individuals affected by any changes to the DACA program, and would like to provide consultations, referrals, and (in appropriate circumstances) direct representation to any U of I students with DACA status who seek advice or information about how they might be personally affected by any new presidential policy with regard to DACA. [...] Our (the Clinic's) phone number is 319-335-9023 and our email is law-legal-clinic@uiowa.edu.
| Highlights and events from around the academic world
The following resources from the AAUP are potentially useful to faculty concerned by recent political events:
Faculty Speech after the 2016 Election
Inspections of electronic devices by US border patrol officers
A Free-Speech Divide:
Why students and professors may think differently about free expression
Chronicle of Higher Ed (Paywalled article; UI visitors can access it here)
From fiscal years 2007 to 2015, according to NSF data, federal funding for university- and college-based research grew by 8 percent nationwide. But for the seven states generally considered by research organizations to make up the Midwest—Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin —the increase was only 4 percent. Both those numbers lag far behind the roughly 14 percent inflation during that time period, meaning that federal funding for university research actually decreased overall, and it decreased more in the Midwest. As private and better-funded public universities elsewhere in the country found alternative sources of support, they pushed their midwestern rivals down the research rankings. | |
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