IOWA CITY Without conducting a formal search despite earlier suggestions it would the University of Iowa on Friday named another interim administrator to assume a top leadership post on campus: dean of its largest college.
Sara Sanders stepped in as interim dean of the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in July after its former and short-lived dean Steve Goddard abruptly resigned just a year into the job following a contentious Zoom town hall about budget cuts and fall return plans with 400-plus faculty and staff.
Sanders a social work professor who before her interim appointment served as associate dean for strategic initiatives and director of the college’s diversity, equity, and inclusion division will earn an annual salary of $375,000, up from her interim pay of $305,000 and previous $160,980 salary.
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