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In the wake of the University of Iowa’s mishandling of an alleged sexual assault case, the Iowa State Board of Regents ordered a comprehensive review of the sexual assault and misconduct policies at all of the state’s universities. The regents’ office will pick up half the tab, while the other half will be funded by a portion of a $1 million Flagship grant awarded in 2007 to the University of Northern Iowa from the Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women.

A law firm’s report that documents the University of Iowa’s handling of a sexual assault case involving two former UI football players and led to the firing of two top officials at the university will end up costing the state $247,588, the Des Moines Register reported.

The fallout of University of Iowa President Sally Mason’s recent firing of former general counsel Marcus Mills last week is beginning to rear its head among disgruntled faculty members. Tenured UI professor Michael Lewis-Beck said Mason’s credibility is “very low” among faculty after she fired Mills, The Press-Citizen reports.
“It is very low,” Michael Lewis-Beck, a political [...]

“Dr. Jones has never been given the opportunity to fully and fairly discuss his position as it relates to the finding in the Stolar report,” the letter from David Dutton and Cheryl Weber at the Dutton, Braun, Staack & Hellman PLC firm states.

Recent findings from an independent report chronicling UI’s response to an alleged sexual assault on campus involving two Hawkeye football players focused the brunt of criticism on the two men.