2 Of Iowa’s 3 Public Universities See Giving Gains

Fewer donors than the year before contributed less money to Iowa’s public universities in fiscal 2019, a year already beset by mounting changes across the higher education landscape, with depressed enrollment forecasts, atrophied state funding, campus cost cutbacks and quests for novel revenue sources.Taken as a whole, giving to the three public universities fell off nearly 18 percent from fiscal 2018 to 2019, which ended June 30, to a total of $452.3 million.But the story of each school is more complicated: Donation declines at Iowa State University far overshadowed gains at the state’s other public universities.University of IowaFor the budget year that ended in June, 63,839 donors gave $242 million to the UI.