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Junior Achievement of Eastern Iowa launches new financial literacy program

Junior Achievement of Eastern Iowa has been selected as one of the few JA locations nationwide to pilot Financial Playbook by Junior Achievement of Eastern Iowa, a financial literacy program for young adults. The program, developed in partnership with the…

Meet the 2023 Forty Under 40 honorees working in education

Each year, the Corridor Business Journal shines a spotlight on young professionals who have made…

North Liberty-based Learn Spatial helps neurodivergent learning

Educational entrepreneur Mike Quinn, based in North Liberty, Iowa, has launched a new and innovative…

Mike Quinn

UI JPEC enters new phase, plans to honor John Pappajohn

After nearly 30 years of weathering the constantly changing entrepreneurial landscape, the University of Iowa…

UI John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center Executive Director David Hensley, UI President Barbara J. Wilson, and John Pappajohn

Mount Mercy, St. Ambrose sign nursing articulation agreement

Davenport’s St. Ambrose University (SAU) and Cedar Rapids’s Mount Mercy University signed an articulation agreement…

St. Ambrose University President, Amy C. Novak, EdD, and Mount Mercy University President, Dr. Todd A. Olson, sign the nursing articulation agreement between both institutions.

Iowa awards $1.25 million in work-based learning grants

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds awarded more than $1.25 million in state grants to fund the…

Governor Kim Reynolds speaks during the annual ABI conference June 14, 2023. CREDIT JOHN LEE PHOTOGRAPHY

IowaWORKS to replace Teach Iowa as main outlet for listing education jobs

Iowa Workforce Development (IWD) and the Iowa Department of Education are launching a statewide outreach…

Iowa WorkForce Development

New Leader Manufacturing to host first youth registered weld apprenticeship program

New Leader Manufacturing (NLM) has partnered with the Iowa Department of Education and Grant Wood…

Prairie Creek first school to host JA BizTown Mobile learning program

Learning “real-world” skills just got a little easier for some Iowa students. Junior Achievement of…

JA BizTown Mobile

College Community Schools to pilot JA BizTown Mobile

Junior Achievement of Eastern Iowa, Wells Fargo and MidAmerican Energy have teamed up to provide…

Junior Achievement of Eastern Iowa and Jersey Mike's is partnering during the month of March. CREDIT JAEI

University of Iowa metaversity geared toward prospective, current students

A collection of avatars attended a ribbon cutting event for a virtual University of Iowa…

Jim Chaffee and Tippie student Isabel Anderson work with some of the college’s virtual reality technology.

ICABP, ICAD announce 2023 Innovation in Education awards

The Iowa City Area Business Partnership (ICABP) and the Iowa City Area Development Group (ICAD)…

Bankers Trust, Horizons partner on homebuyer education programs

Bankers Trust and Horizons, A Family Service Alliance are partnering to address a need for…

First time homebuyers

ISU research park to build Alliant Energy agriculture innovation lab

The Iowa State University Research Park (ISURP) and Alliant Energy announced on March 23 a…

Coe College receives Prison Learning Initiative grant

Coe College in Cedar Rapids has received an Associated Colleges of the Midwest grant to…

Kirkwood releases results from area workforce survey

Kirkwood Community College has released the results from the Skills 2024 Survey, a report created…

Kirkwood Community College