CLAS Business Updates

Weekly updates on business and administrative topics in CLAS

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Directory

Use this listing to find offices and phone numbers for administrative staff and collegiate leaders in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Faculty Appointments and Review

Learn about the process for appointing and reviewing faculty in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Iowa.

HR Request Forms

Review Request Forms to learn how to submit transaction requests, access workflow and more. You can also learn more about shared governance practices and volunteer opportunities for faculty, staff, and students.

Events for faculty and staff in CLAS

Are you holding an event you'd like to share with faculty and staff in CLAS? Please add your event to the UI Events calendar selecting both the "College of Liberal Arts and Sciences" unit tag and the "faculty/staff" audience tag.


 

Upcoming events

Art & Write Night promotional image

Art & Write Night

Friday, August 7, 2026 6:00pm to 8:00pm
University of Iowa Museum of Natural History

Join the long, rich, historical tradition of artists creating in our spaces.

Professional, aspiring, and amateur artists alike, make our museum your muse. The return of this popular program series welcomes guests into the Museum of Natural History's magical gallery spaces after-hours to work on sketching or writing projects with other campus and community artists.

Tell a friend, grab a notebook, and join us on the first Friday of each month. We'll provide a new inspo prompt for each session and...

Astrophotography Post-Processing - presented by Griffin Carroll; Undergraduate Student; Department of Physics and Astronomy promotional image

Astrophotography Post-Processing - presented by Griffin Carroll; Undergraduate Student; Department of Physics and Astronomy

Friday, August 7, 2026 8:30pm to 9:00pm
Van Allen Hall

Please join us for the Astronomy Public Talk series, where we host short, accessible talks on a wide range of astronomy and physics-related topics—free and open to the public! This event will feature a presentation by UI Physics and Astronomy undergraduate student Griffin Carroll, who will discuss how astronomical images are stacked and enhanced with software.

A public observing session at the Van Allen Observatory will immediately follow this talk, weather permitting.

REDCap Advanced Training

Tuesday, August 11, 2026 10:00am to 11:00am
Virtual

This is the fourth step in the REDCap training series. In this training we will cover advanced features such as:

Importing data from a CSV file

Ways to customize your data entry experience with form display logic

Making your forms more dynamic and personalized with context aware smart variables

Sending automated, conditional email alerts

Ensuring data is high quality by executing data quality rules, creating data 'missingness' codes, and opening data queries

Register by clicking the virtual event link...

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Thank a staff member

Recognize a CLAS staff member who has gone above and beyond the call of duty to be of assistance to a faculty or staff member or student. They'll receive a thank you note sent on behalf of the nominator, the Dean, and the Staff Recognition Committee.