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The Iowa Credit Union Foundation has pledged $50,000 to UNI in order to help train educators to teach financial literacy courses in Iowa high schools during the summer of 2020. The program allows educators to receive graduate credit while learning how to better teach students about the importance of personal finance. Approximately 200-400 teachers will participate in the training over the next five years and will positively impact the 30,000 students that graduate from Iowa high schools eac...
On November 11, 1959, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. addressed a full house in UNI’s Lang Hall Auditorium. King spoke about the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott, and described his philosophy of nonviolent resistance. Four years later, King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech, offering his vision of a nation “that lives out the true meaning of its creed,” where all are equal and interwoven in community; King’s dream continues to serve as a powerful guidepost in our nation’s long arc t...