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07/15/18 — J. Bruce Harreld and the UI Student Housing Market.

07/08/18 — A must-read report on the chaotic and reckless construction process of the new UI children’s hospital, from the Gazette’s Vanessa Miller.

07/05/18 — J. Bruce Harreld and the Mike Crow/ASU Playbook — Part 2.

07/02/18 — J. Bruce Harreld and the Mike Crow/ASU Playbook — Part 1.

06/18/18 — J. Bruce Harreld Tells (More) Lies to the Daily Iowan. Updated 06/20/18.

06/04/18 — Reassessing the Integrity and Credibility of the Iowa Board of Regents.

05/28/18 — J. Bruce Harreld and the UI Employment Practices Whitewash.

05/20/18 — The Bunker Mentality of J. Bruce Harreld – Now With Loaded Guns.

05/13/18 — J. Bruce Harreld Lawyers Up.

05/07/18 — About That “New” Budget Model at the University of Iowa.

05/01/18 — That didn’t take long. The Gazette’s Vanessa Miller reports that J. Bruce Harreld is killing off Iowa’s 70-year-old Institute of Public Affairs.

04/30/18 — Long-Simmering Problems at UI Healthcare are Coming to a Boil.

04/25/18 — Which UI Centers and Institutes Will Harreld the Ogre Slash and Burn? Updated.

04/19/18 — Larry McKibben Has Had Enough of ‘Casino’ Kim Reynolds.

04/17/18 — Updating the UI 2020 Academic Organizational Task Force.

04/15/18 — J. Bruce Harreld Turns on the University of Iowa.

04/08/18 — Tuition Hikes, Naming Rights, Textbook Taxes and More.

04/01/18 — Two Weeks Until Crunch Time: Taxes, Tuition and the 2020 Task Force.

03/25/18 — How State Legislatures and Governing Boards Prey on Higher-Ed Students. With particular attention paid to Iowa Representative Pat Grassley, R-New Hartford.

03/18/18 — J. Bruce Harreld at the Halfway Point. It’s all downhill from here.

03/04/18 — Part 7 of Designing the New American University: a Book Review in Context. What Mike Crow’s book is really about and who it is for.

03/01/18 — Part 6 of Designing the New American University: a Book Review in Context. Covers the period between publication in March of 2015 and today.

02/25/18 — Part 5 of Designing the New American University: a Book Review in Context. Covers the second half of chapter seven — p. 267-297 — and the conclusion. Updated 03/05/18.

02/22/18 — Part 4 of Designing the New American University: a Book Review in Context. Covers the first half of chapter seven — p. 240-267.

02/18/18 — Part 3 of Designing the New American University: a Book Review in Context. Covers chapters five and six.

02/16/18 — A few quick thoughts on the now-annual conjecture that UIHC might be privatized or partner with a commercial healthcare provider.

02/15/18 — Part 2 of Designing the New American University: a Book Review in Context. Covers chapters three and four.

02/11/18 — Part 1 of Designing the New American University: a Book Review in Context. Covers the preface, acknowledgements and introduction, and chapters one and two.

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02/04/18 — Another One Bites the Dust: Administrative Turnover in the Time of Harreld.

01/28/18 — Iowa’s Rapidly Devolving Higher-Ed Budget Battle.

01/21/18 — Wendy Wintersteen Talks Tuition and Funding Cuts.

01/14/18 — Casino Kim’s FY19 Higher-Ed Budget Proposal.

12/29/17 — Jerre Stead’s Hostile Takeover of the University of Iowa.

12/21/17 — The Perfidious Administrative Priorities of Interim Provost Sue Curry.

12/15/17 — By Way of Thanks to the UI Faculty Senate.

12/03/17 — J. Bruce Harreld and the Proxy Provost.

11/30/17 — What the VPMA/CoM Search Tells Us About the CLAS Search at UI.

11/21/17 — Dismantling the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences — Phase I.

11/11/17 — A short note on Interim Provost Sue Curry’s crusade to destroy the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

10/29/17 — What the Wintersteen Hire Tells Us About J. Bruce Harreld.

10/20/17 — The Iowa State Presidential Search in Context.

10/16/17 — For all the right reasons, Art Cullen, editor of the Storm Lake Times, comes out hard against Wendy Wintersteen for president of Iowa State.

10/08/17 — The Conspiratorial Lies of Jerre Stead and J. Bruce Harreld.

09/28/17 — Updating the Iowa State Presidential Search.

09/24/17 — For Students at UNI, ISU and UI: the Tuition Task Force Explained.

09/17/17 — The Student Guide to the Iowa Tuition Task Force.

09/10/17 — A Defining Moment for the Iowa Board of Regents — Part 2.

09/03/17 — A Defining Moment for the Iowa Board of Regents — Part 1.

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08/27/17 — J. Bruce Harreld and the UI Five-Year Tuition Proposal — Part 2.

08/21/17 — J. Bruce Harreld and the UI Five-Year Tuition Proposal — Part 1.

08/12/17 — The UNI and ISU Five-Year Tuition Proposals.

08/05/17 — The Iowa Board of Regents and the $91M Lie.

07/30/17 — Perusing the Tuition Task Force Reading Room.

07/27/17 — The Iowa Tuition Task Force is Exposed.

07/24/17 — Regent Larry McKibben, chair of the Iowa Tuition Task Force, has cancelled Thursday’s big meeting, and it will not be rescheduled. Reporting here, here and here.

07/23/17 — What the Iowa Tuition Task Force is Really About.

07/16/17 — What the Iowa Tuition Task Force is Not About.

07/03/17 — Reintroducing Steve McGuire to Reality.

06/25/17 — J. Bruce Harreld and the Tuition Task Farce — Part 4. Updated.

06/22/17 — J. Bruce Harreld and the Tuition Task Farce — Part 3.

06/18/17 — J. Bruce Harreld and the Tuition Task Farce — Part 2.

06/14/17 — J. Bruce Harreld and the Tuition Task Farce — Part 1.

06/04/17 — Today Tuition Hikes, Tomorrow a Task Force.

05/28/17 — Iowa Board of Regents President Mike Richards. Part 1. Part 2.

05/21/17 — J. Bruce Harreld and the UI Peer Group Tuition Lie: Part 2. (Part 1 was published on 05/17/17.)

05/19/17 — The University of Iowa has settled the case brought by Tracey Griesbaum, and reached a final agreement with Jane Meyer. UI press release here, which includes links to regents source docs. All moneys to be paid from Athletic Department funds.

05/17/17 — J. Bruce Harreld and the UI Peer Group Tuition Lie: Part 1.

05/03/17 — What Gary Barta Did to Jane Meyer. Updated 05/04/17.

04/27/17 — J. Bruce Harreld Makes His Move.

04/19/17 — The Riverside Recital Hall Remodel and the Levitt Center Lease.

04/12/17 — J. Bruce Harreld at Eighteen Months. Part 1. Part 2.

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03/29/17 — The End of the End for ISU President Steven Leath.

03/19/17 — J. Bruce Harreld Sheds His Skin. Part 1. Part 2.

03/09/17 — Iowa State President Steven Leath and the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation. Part 1. Part 2.

02/27/17 — Waste and Delay at the Stead Family Children’s Hospital of Iowa.

2/18/17 — Unraveling the Mysteries of the ISU Flight Services Supplemental Cirrus Log.

02/12/17 — In Demonstrating His Superior Judgment J. Bruce Harreld Proves He Is a Fraud. Part 1. Part 2. Updated 02/14/17.

02/10/17 — Regents President Bruce Rastetter will not seek a second-six year term on the board. His current term ends April 30th. Initial reports here, here and here.

02/02/17 — Steven Leath’s Rochester Trip That Violated ISU Travel Policy and State Law. Part 1. Part 2.

01/23/17 — Catching Up on the Last Six Weeks of J. Bruce Harreld’s Lies, With Bonus Steven Leath. Part 1. Part 2.

01/15/17 — Steven and Janet Leath’s $6,800 King Air 350 Round Trip to N.C. on 07/03/14.

01/10/17 — An Apples-to-Apples Comparison of Student Interviews With Sally Mason and Steven Leath. Part 1. Part 2.

12/31/16 — Why the Iowa Board of Regents Cannot Fire ISU President Steven Leath. Part 1. Part 2.

12/24/16 — Why Did Both of Iowa State’s Airplanes Fly to Northeast Illinois on the Same March Dates?

12/22/16 — The Problem with Using ISU Pilot Joe Crandall to Justify the Cirrus Round Trip on 03/12/16.

12/20/16 — ISU Flight Services Billed $3K in Per-Mile Charges for Leath and Wife on Empty Plane.

12/17/16 — The Regents Audit Did Not Exonerate ISU President Steven Leath of Criminal Acts. Updated 12/17/16. Updated 12/18/16 [1]. Updated 12/18/16 [2].

12/15/16 — Bleeding Heartland posted a tour de force on the failings of the regents audit, and why law enforcement must investigate Steven Leath.

12/10/16 — Say It Ain’t So, Joe: The 2016 UNI Presidential Search in Context.

12/01/16 — Engines of Anxiety and J. Bruce Harreld: A Book Review in Context.

11/20/16 — The Missing Piece of Iowa’s Tuition and Student Debt Conversation.

11/13/16 — There is No Iowa Board of Regents.

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11/10/16 — Iowa State President Steven Leath: Feudal Lord of Story County.

11/06/16 — ISU President Steven Leath: “I am open, honest and forthcoming.” (With bonus Harreld and UNI.)

11/01/16 — ISU President Steven Leath Is More Than a “Minor User” of the King Air 350.

10/30/16 — On Iowa State President Stephen Leath Having it Both Ways.

10/27/16 — Krapf vs. Iowa Board of Regents: Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss is DENIED.

10/25/16 — Steven Leath’s Use of the ISU King Air 350, Either Alone or With His Wife.

10/22/16 — An Unofficial Audit of the Iowa State Cirrus SR22 Flight Logs. Updated 10/23/16. Updated 10/24/16.

10/18/16 — Bruce Rastetter’s Serial Betrayals of the Iowa Board of Regents.

10/16/16 — Iowa State President Steven Leath: Honest Abe or Tricky Dick?

10/13/16 — The Middle of the End for ISU President Steven Leath — Part 2.

10/10/16 — The Middle of the End for ISU President Steven Leath — Part 1.

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10/06/16 — The Real Legacy of University of Iowa Traitor Jean Robillard.

10/01/16 — Wrong Way Leath and the Microburst Lie. Updated.

09/27/16 — J. Bruce Harreld and the UI ‘Speak Out Iowa’ Campus Climate Survey.

09/23/16 — J. Bruce Harreld Injects His Poison into the UI Faculty Ranks.

09/20/16 — J. Bruce Harreld and the UI Office of the Ombudsperson.

09/17/16 — On 03/22/16 Regents President Bruce Rastetter Lied to the Des Moines Register.

09/14/16 — J. Bruce Harreld’s 20-Year-Old Failed and Fake Ranking Plan From Kentucky.

09/11/16 — J. Bruce Harreld Officially Welcomes His Excellency J. Bruce Harreld. Part 1. Part 2. Updated.

09/08/16 — It’s not just me. Bleeding Heartland chronicles a year of posts about the Harreld hire.

09/06/16 — On the Origins of J. Bruce Harreld’s U.S. News Ranking Obsession. Part 1. Part 2.

09/03/16 — Bruce Rastetter, Joe Murphy, and the Iowa Board of Regents’ Revolving Door.

08/30/16 — Your Most Important Right as a University of Northern Iowa Presidential Candidate.

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08/28/16 — The Inevitable Damage to Come From J. Bruce Harreld’s Ranking Obsession.

08/26/16 — J. Bruce Harreld in Three Days: Confused, Compliant and Caustic.

08/23/16 — On Bruce Rastetter, Oversight, Politics, Business and Biofuels.

08/21/16 — The Moment When J. Bruce Harreld Sold Women Out and Went All-In on Gary Barta.

08/18/16 — Regents Appoint Abuser of UI Students, Faculty and Staff as Co-Chair of UNI Search.

08/15/16 — The Iowa Board of Regents Sics the Iowa AG on a Teacher the Board Abused.

08/14/16 — Iowa Regent Larry McKibben Tells a Lie Within a Lie Within a Lie.

08/12/16 — On Presidential Searches, Funding Splits and Regental Incoherence.

08/10/16 — Governor Terry Branstad Corrupted the Iowa Board of Regents.

08/08/16 — A Brief Administrative History of Bob Donley and Mark Braun. Updated.

08/06/16 — What You Don’t Know About 2016 UNI Presidential Search Firm AGB.

08/03/16 — Comparing the 2015 UI Presidential Search to the 2016 UNI Search (So Far). Updated.

07/31/16 — Bruce Rastetter and the Common Application Portal Scam.

07/26/16 — On the Iowa Board of Regents, Fairness and the UNI Search.

07/23/16 — J. Bruce Harreld and Big Data. Part 1. Part 2. Updated.

07/21/16 — The Iowa Board of Regents and the UNI Search Firm Search.

07/19/16 — The Iowa Board of Regents as Crony Political Machine.

07/17/16 — Ten Months of J. Bruce Harreld’s Mendacity in One UI Press Release.

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07/14/16 — The Rastetter-Leath Land Deal and Iowa’s Gift Law. Updated.

07/12/16 — Following Up on the Rastetter-Leath Crony Land Deal. Updated.

07/12/16 — More on the Rastetter-Leath land deal from AP’s Ryan Foley here. Key confirmation that the Leaths directed the purchase through Rastetter’s company, rather than simply buying the land themselves, thus saving themselves 50% of all associated costs.

07/11/16 — DesMoinesDem at Bleeding Heartland had a post up yesterday about the Rastetter-Leath land deal, and assorted crony activities at ISU. The potential savings to Leath and his wife looks to be considerably more than that reported by the Des Moines Register. (See also the update in the post below.)

07/10/16 — The Beginning of the End for ISU President Steven Leath. Updated.

07/07/16 — J. Bruce Harreld, Tuition Hikes and Mental Health.

07/03/16 — J. Bruce Harreld is Right Behind You.

06/30/16 — The Daily Iowan’s coverage of the Iowa Board of Regents continues to impress. Brad Pector on the regents’ lack of transparency. Addison Martin on the proposed decrease in meetings.

06/28/16 — UI Faculty Senate Ex-President Christina Bohannan Tells a Lie.

06/26/16 — Bruce Rastetter’s Long Game at the Iowa Board of Regents. Part I. Part II.

06/24/16 — J. Bruce Harreld and World Class Incoherence.

06/22/16 — J. Bruce Harreld and the UI Faculty Senate.

06/19/16 — The AAUP Sanctions the University of Iowa. Updated.

06/10/16 — Branstad, Rastetter and Harreld, and the $20M Tuition Hike Caper. Updated.

06/07/16 — Branstad, Rastetter and Harreld, and the $1.7M Regents Shortfall. Updated.

06/05/16 — J. Bruce Harreld, Gary Barta, and Bromance. Updated.

06/02/16 — On the Lawsuit Challenging Rastetter’s Secret Regent Meetings.

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