UNI Legislative Update
The Office of Governmental Relations provides legislative updates to the campus community through online communication and bimonthly campus presentations. These updates will inform faculty, staff and students of hot topics facing the legislature and legislative actions affecting UNI and the Regents institutions.
August 14, 2008
UNI rated among best Midwestern colleges by Princeton Review
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
James Lubker, UNI provost and vice president for academic affairs, (319) 273-2517
Terry Hogan, UNI vice president for student affairs, (319) 273-2331
Harriet Brand, director of public relations, The Princeton Review, (212) 874-8282, ext. 1091
Vicki Grimes, University Marketing & Public Relations, (319) 273-6728
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa -- The University of Northern Iowa is one of an elite group of 159 colleges on the Princeton Review's list of "Best in the Midwest" for 2009. The annual college listings, released recently, are based on standards of academic excellence, along with anonymous student surveys, site visits and independent invited recommendations.
Schools are named "as our 'regional best' colleges primarily for their excellent academic programs," said Robert Franek, Princeton Review's vice president for publishing. "We selected them based on institutional data we collected from several hundred schools in each region, our visits to schools over the years and the opinions of independent and high school-based college advisers whose recommendations we invite."
Princeton Review divides the country into four regions and, this year, identified 630 colleges as "regional bests," adding that this figure represents about 25 percent of the nation's 2,500 four-year colleges. In addition to the Midwest, the company designated 212 colleges in the Northeast, 120 in the West and 139 in the South as best in their locales.
The annual listing, along with student comments about UNI, can be found online at www.princetonreview.com