Mount Mercy, St. Ambrose consider ‘strategic combination’

“We are better together,” said Todd Olson, president of Mount Mercy University in Cedar Rapids, as that school and St. Ambrose University in Davenport have confirmed they are in talks to eventually merge both universities in what the schools are calling an “innovative strategic combination.”

While that combination deal is in the works, the universities have agreed to an immediate separate plan that will allow students from both schools to take courses from…