The Board of Regents, State of Iowa (commonly referred to as the Iowa Board of Regents) is the 9-member

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overseeing the three public universities in the state of Iowa: the University of Iowa, Iowa State University, and the

University of Northern Iowa The University of Northern Iowa (UNI) is a public university in Cedar Falls, Iowa. UNI offers more than 90 majors across the colleges of Business Administration, Education, Humanities, Arts, and Sciences, Social and Behavioral Sciences and gra ...

. The board also serves the

Iowa School for the Deaf Iowa School for the Deaf is a pre-K to 12th grade school for deaf and hard-of-hearing students located in Council Bluffs, Iowa. It serves students who live in Iowa and Nebraska. History The founders of Iowa School for the Deaf were Edmund Booth ...

and the

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, the state's two public

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Composition

The

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appoints regents to six-year terms, which are subject to

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confirmation by a two-thirds vote. Terms begin May 1 and end April 30. The board has nine members. Under state law, one of the regents must be a student of one of the three public universities, and no more than five members can be of the same political affiliation or gender. The current members of the Board of Regents are as follows:

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Board of Regents, State of Iowa
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