University of Iowa now off sanction list

IOWA CITY — Two years after the American Association of University Professors placed the University of Iowa on its ignominious list of sanctioned higher education institutions over the hiring of UI President Bruce Harreld, it changed course last weekend and lifted the blackball — now offering praise to the university.

During the association’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C., delegates voted to remove the UI from the list, citing progress in relations between its faculty and the Board of Regents.

“Recent reports from multiple faculty members described the current state of faculty-board relations at Iowa as the best in the past twenty years or more,” according to an AAUP news release.

The AAUP has placed the UI on its sanctioned list following the contentious regents’ decision to hire former IBM businessman Bruce Harreld as the school’s president.

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