The Henry B. Tippie College of Business Administration

• 2113 Iowans have participated in FastTrac training offered by the John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center (JPEC) and the Iowa Entrepreneurial Consortium since fall of 1997. This initiative is designed to provide a wide range of learning experiences for individuals who wish to create a venture, learn the entrepreneurial process, or need to update their knowledge and skills to grow their businesses. This unique partnership allows JPEC to provide high quality instruction and support over the Iowa Communications Network (a statewide fiber optic network equipped for two-way audio and video transmissions) to entrepreneurs located throughout Iowa.
• The Small Business Development Center at the UI served over 300 clients from 53 communities in 22 counties.
• Economics Professor, Beth Ingram, chairs the Iowa Economic Forecasting Council, and provides economic forecasting to state officials.  

College of Engineering

• The College co-sponsors National Engineers Week activities, in partnership with Iowa State University College of Engineering. Now in its ninth year, the deans of the two colleges make joint presentations in major Iowa cities on the value of engineering education in Iowa, areas of research excellence, and the on-going cooperation between the two colleges. The colleges also conduct an annual breakfast briefing with state legislators at the State Capitol.
• The College has a multi-faceted partnership with more than 165 companies and agencies, 60 of them Iowa-based. The relationships include experiential learning, employment recruiting, scholarships, site field trips, student mentoring, student design projects, corporate guest lectures and seminars, adjunct faculty positions, continuing education, summer seminars in workplace writing, information exchanges and corporate briefings, use of equipment, laboratories, and classroom facilities, independent scholar library privileges, faculty consulting, sponsored research, and licensing/technology transfer.
• Dean’s Office serves as a year-round liaison with the Iowa Department of Economic Development, providing information and assistance to attract and retain companies in Iowa. College is represented on the Iowa Business Council Advanced Manufacturing Research Collaborative Cluster (AMRCC) with other industry members, and the AMRCC Rapid Prototyping Working Group and Bio Working Group. The College’s External Relations Office is liaison with Iowa regional economic development groups and is a member of the Quad Cities Area Development Group’s Industry Cluster Study Organization.
• Partnerships between the College and Iowa businesses are growing. New companies, established on Iowa-based research, include those incubating at the UI Technology Innovation Center and Oakdale Research Park. Current TIC companies with ties to the College include Innovative Software Engineering, InnoMatrix, AISST, Inc., and Optimal Electronics Corp. Corporate tenants of Oakdale Research Park with College of Engineering affiliation include LMS CADSI, Pinnacor, Inc., and Stanley Environmental Inc. Companies who had roots with the College of Engineering and have moved beyond Oakdale Research Park include Enzymed, Inc. and Ecolotree, Inc.
• Program for Enhanced Design Experience (PEDE), in its 10th year, exposes students in a team-based setting to solve real-world industrial problems. The PEDE program has generated several senior design projects sponsored by Iowa-based John Deere Dubuque Works, HON Industries, Rockwell Collins, Alcoa, and Monsanto, Maytag, and Genencor 

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

• Department of Anthropology cooperates with and supports the work of the Office of the State Archeologist, including offering adjunct faculty appointments to the State Archeologist and members of her staff.
• Department of Geosciences cooperates with the State Geological Survey, through adjunct teaching appointments and collaborative research.
• The School of Social Work partners with the town of West Liberty, Iowa, in the West Liberty Community Partnership Program.

College of Public Health and The University of Iowa Alumni Association

• The College of Public Health, in cooperation with the UI Alumni Association and many local organizations, has conducted the CPH educational outreach program (EOP) Series since FY 2001. Each year a series of presentations on important health care and health policy issues are provided to citizens in several Iowa communities at no cost to the participants. FY 2003 programs were presented in Council Bluffs, Mason City, Waterloo/Cedar Falls, Marshalltown, Amana, Calmar, Ottumwa, Peosta, Sioux Center and Des Moines. The EOP Series is supported in part by a grant from Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield.
• The Heartland Center for Occupational Health and Safety provides a broad range of outreach activities to Iowa businesses and communities. Examples include educational development, presentations, and consultative services to industry, state and local trade associations, labor unions, hospitals, and other groups.\

The Institute for Public Affairs

• Over the last four years, the Institute has conducted nearly 500 sessions for over 200 communities, serving nearly 19,000 participants. Last year alone, the Institute served nearly 5,200 Iowans in communities throughout the state.

The Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research (CGRER)

• Housed on The University of Iowa campus in the Iowa Advanced Technology Laboratories, CGRER is supported by revenues from public utilities, as mandated by the State of Iowa’s Energy Efficient Act. Funds are used to support research and provide services to faculty members and students across the state who are interested in environmental change.
• Several CGRER members made major contributions to the Iowa Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations Air Quality Study, initiated under a charge from Governor Vilsack.
• CGRER has evaluated Iowa’s greenhouse emissions, and completed a Greenhouse Gas Action Plan for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.

Iowa Nonprofit Resource Center

• The Iowa Nonprofit Resource Center is currently offering a course in nonprofit management via the ICN in six remote locations, including Davenport, Calmar, Muscatine, Sioux City, Council Bluffs and Des Moines
• All Iowa nonprofit organizations can access directory and information referral services through the Iowa Nonprofit Resource Center website.
• Quarterly Newsletter on  Iowa nonprofit issues.
• Law School Nonprofit Clinic providing legal assistance to start up nonprofits.
• Monograph publications: Legal Issues Affecting Nonprofit Organizations and The Governing Board copies deposited in public libraries in 99 county seats.
• Collaboration with Iowa State University in providing speakers for Nonprofit Management Academies held or to be held in Sioux City, Council Bluffs, Des Moines, Marshalltown, Dubuque, Ames, Davenport, and Iowa City.
• Collaboration with University of Northern Iowa Center on School Foundations statewide conference in Des Moines.
• Collaboration with Community Vitality Center and Iowa Council on Foundations in evaluating and strengthening  community foundations in Iowa
• Maintain active speakers bureau for community chambers of commerce, service clubs, foundations, professional and other organizations on nonprofit issues and role of nonprofits in building communities.
• Creation and distribution of informational video: The Essence of Community: Iowa’s Nonprofits
• Staffing Governors Task Force on the Role of Nonprofit Organizations in Iowa.

The University of Iowa Libraries

• During the 2002-2003 academic year, The University of Iowa Libraries lent 15,632 items to public, college and university, school, corporate and hospital libraries in all of Iowa’s 99 counties through interlibrary loan. The UI lends more library resources to other libraries than any other institution in the state.

• Non-UI Borrowers Permits/Open Access: UI Libraries have issued approximately 1,200 library cards to individuals in the community who are not UI faculty, students or staff. In addition, UI Libraries has open access to its collections and offer library services to all. Staff throughout the Libraries provides reference assistance to people throughout Iowa via mail, telephone, in person and e-mail. The staff of Special Collections also routinely review materials and offer general advice as to authenticity, value and possible disposition of personal books and collections.
  
• Hardin Meta Directory (Hardin MD): As the name “meta directory” implies, Hardin MD is a “list of lists” - its purpose is to provide easy access to comprehensive resource lists in health-related subjects. It includes subject listings in large “one-stop shopping” sites, such as MedWeb and Yahoo, and also independent discipline-specific lists. Hardin MD subject pages indicate the length of lists in each subject, making it easy to see at a glance which lists are most comprehensive. These are often not the lists from “one-stop-shopping” sites, but those developed by people within the field, which are well-known and frequently cited within the field, but not well-known outside it. Hardin MD receives 1.5 million hits per month! There are users all over the world. The site is highly acclaimed as noted in the “kudos” link www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/news.html.
  
• Public Health Grant: The Hardin Library for the Health Sciences currently has a grant from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Greater Midwest Region to develop a public health information website for Iowa.  The project is being developed in partnership with the UI College of Public Health, the Iowa Department of Health and the Iowa Association of Local Public Health Agencies. The Iowa Public Health Information (IPHI) website will debut on March 1, 2004: www.iowapublichealth.org. In the second part of the project, Hardin librarians will be training public health workers throughout the state to access the IPHI site, as well as learn about the National Library of Medicine and Centers for Disease Control systems and information sources.
  
• Preservation: Nancy Kraft, UI Libraries Head of Preservation, earned a grant from the Iowa Conservation and Preservation Consortium (ICPC) to deliver a preservation training program over the Iowa Communications Network (ICN) to 18 sites across the state. UI Libraries Preservation staff, Susan Hansen, Kristin Baum, Bu Wilson and Gary Frost, donated their time to teach these courses. More than 150 Iowans have attended at least one class and more than 40 have taken the entire series, which consists of 18 hours of lecture and 15 hours of hands-on training. Topics range from identifying photographic processes to pest management to emergency planning. Participants learned to repair books, use environmental monitoring instruments, flatten photographs and clean textiles. Since the program was so well-received, development of a second training program is underway.

• Iowa Heritage Digital Collection Database: The UI Libraries is currently taking the leadership in developing a pilot database of digital images (text, images and sound) related to Iowa history, culture and life. Nancy E Kraft, head of Preservation Department and Preservation Librarian, is working with a statewide planning committee consisting of members from the State Library, Iowa State University, University of Northern Iowa, State Historical Society and several other private colleges, public libraries and museums around the state. This database will be searchable over the Internet using CONTENTdm software acquired by the UI Libraries. Digital images from the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library, Saint Ambrose University, Museum of Amana History, Davenport Public Library, African American Historical Museum and Cultural Center of Iowa, and School of Library Information Science are scheduled to be available over the Iowa Heritage Digital Collection website sometime this spring. It is our hope that this demonstration project will lead to additional grant and other funding to add resources from libraries and museums around the state.  

• State Historical Society Catalog in InfoHawk: The UI Libraries made it possible for the State Historical Society of Iowa to leverage grant funding and create their first online catalog using InfoHawk software. This catalog was recently introduced to the public and can be found on the InfoHawk menu. While many of the older holdings are not yet converted to electronic catalog records, this represents an important first step for the State Historical Society.

• Iowa Authors: The Iowa Authors Collection in Special Collections is clearly outreach ­and appreciated by writers across the state. Its maintenance certainly requires continued investment of time and dollars, most of the collection could not be justified merely on the grounds of University needs.

• Government Publications: As the federal regional depository for Iowa, the Government Publications Department (GPD) in the UI Libraries permanently maintains all government publications available through the federal and state depository library systems, and provides reference services for citizens, businesses, and libraries across the state on a walk-in, telephone, and electronic basis. For distant users, we provide direct assistance via virtual reference and identify documents and locate collections closer to them; we also provide a web site providing access to on-line resources from various levels of governments (http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/govpubs/govint.html); several Iowa libraries, including the Iowa State Library, are pointing to these web pages. We circulate documents to citizens across the state and provide direct interlibrary loan services to Iowa libraries. We provide regular information services to various commercial enterprises such as jewelers, architectural firms, and farm implement companies, and have a particularly close relationship with the Iowa Attorney General’s Office, providing materials and reference services not obtainable from the State Law Library.

• State Plan for Government Publication: Marianne Mason of the UI Libraries chaired a statewide committee to update the Iowa State Plan for Federal Publications this year. The state plans were created 20 years ago and the U.S. Superintendent of Documents asked each state to revise them since they were drafted when documents were all in print or microfiche. The purpose of the revision is to accommodate the rapid transition to electronic formats which impact housing and storage issues, relationship among federal depository libraries, the ability of librarians to manage information, and the ability of citizens to utilize government information. The new Iowa State Plan was finalized and signed by the directors of all the depository libraries in the state.  It can be accessed at http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/govpubs/iowaplan-rev03.html

• Iowa Map Collection: The Map Collection at the UI Libraries holds the state’s largest publicly accessible collection of maps and aerial photos and serves many of Iowa’s businesses and private citizens statewide. In a cooperative agreement with Iowa State University, over 24,000 aerial photos were transferred from ISU to the UI Map Collection in 2003, and have been added to the online database. The Map Collection’s aerial photo holdings are now searchable via the web site. Aerial photographs are in constant demand from environmental scientists, geologists, botanists, urban planners, etc. In addition, searchable listings of our microfiche Sanborn fire insurance maps for Iowa’s cities, as well as our collection of microfilmed Iowa county atlases, are also mounted on the web site. These collections are much sought after by historians, planners, and genealogists from across the state.

• Iowa Women’s Archives: In addition to preserving the history of the state, IWA serves many users from across Iowa. These unique collections are accessible to young students, college students at UI and other colleges across the state and scholars. Curator Kären Mason speaks to women’s organizations and has made presentations at the Celebration of African-American Culture in Des Moines and the Strengthening Latinos Conference in Iowa City. Kären also serves on the Iowa Historical Resources Board.

• Consulting: Many of our staff, particularly from Special Collections and Preservation, have served as consultants around the state.

The University of Iowa’s Office of the State Archeologist (OSA)

• The OSA has conducted research in all counties on sites of all types and time periods, supported by contracts, interagency agreements, grants and field schools. The OSA coordinates all work pertaining to ancient burials in Iowa, in accordance with the landmark 1976 state law on protection and reburial of human remains. In addition, the OSA is the central data manager for all recorded Iowa archeological sites (over 21,000 to date), the central repository for Iowa archeological collections (approaching 11,000 site collections to date), and coordinates outreach and education on Iowa Archeology statewide. Outreach programming includes publications, K-12 and adult presentations, ICN-IPTV broadcasts, radio broadcasts, public site tours, field and lab projects, and resources and consultations for educators, conservationists, and museums.
• The OSA has reached 77 Iowa counties in the last ten years with face-to-face outreach presentations, and routinely sponsors approximately 200 outreach events each year. Radio broadcasts extend to all Iowa counties. Outreach and educational programming served over 53,000 Iowans during the 2003-2004 calendar year.
• Since its inception in 1993, over 200,000 Iowans have been introduced to Iowa archeology during the annual Iowa Archeology week/month. In all, 742 programs have been presented in 278 cities, across 74 counties.
• 389,649 hits on the interactive OSA web site in calendar year 2003-2004
• 1100-1200 students in over 40 schools and other locations statewide were reached by OSA archaeologists through classroom visits, demonstrations, and tours in 2003-2004
• 25 individual presenters traveled to schools, museums, conservation centers and libraries in over 28 individual communities in 2003-2004
• Five traveling Time Capsule Resource boxes and 10 Iowa’s P.A.S.T. videos are available for loan to schools, libraries, museums, and conservation centers.
• OSA regularly consults with county and local governments as well as private landowners about archaeological resources and protection

COLLEGE OF LAW

• The Law, Health Policy & Disability Center at the College of Law provided service, education and research on issues involving the quality of life for persons living with disabilities, with an emphasis on employment, self-determination and self-sufficiency.
  • The Center engaged in 42 various outreach sessions in 19 different locations throughout Iowa.
    
  • The Center’s outreach activities included the following training sessions, focus groups, conferences, and other programs:

    1. Working with Polk County Heath Services on projects to provide tested strategies that expand employment outcomes for persons with disabilities, and evaluate outcomes that are related to successful community living.

    2. Projects with the Great Plains ADA and Information Technology Center to

    • Assist Iowa in developing a building code that is understandable, enforceable and ensures that buildings in Iowa are safe and accessible.
    • Ensure that Iowa’s Workforce Development Centers are accessible and able to meet the needs of job seekers with disabilities, and
    • Co-host an annual employment conference.

  • Partnerships with the Iowa Program for Assistive Technology to assist Iowa school personnel in supporting the technology needs of students with disabilities in Iowa schools.
    
  • Working with the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Workforce Investment and Employment Policy for Persons With Disabilities to increase knowledge and understanding of the impact of workforce development and employment policy on the health, well-being, and economic status of persons with disabilities.
    
  • A project to assist the U.S. Department of Labor, the regional Disability Coordinator, and Work Incentive Grantees to provide information, training, and technical assistance to improve the effective and meaningful participation of youth and working-age adults with disabilities in the comprehensive workforce development system.
    
  • A project with the National Center on Workforce and Disability/Adult to provide policy research and analysis on employment challenges for persons with disabilities.
• The Iowa Nonprofit Resource Center (an interdisciplinary center involving the Colleges of Law, Business and Liberal Arts) provided educational and service programs and activities focused on strengthening the operational capacity of nonprofit organizations throughout the state of Iowa.