UI Center for Human Rights prepares to move to a new administrative home in the College of Law, maintaining existing facility

The University of Iowa College of Law will be the new administrative home for the University of Iowa Center for Human Rights (UICHR), with Adrien Wing, Bessie Dutton Murray Professor of Law, becoming its new director on July 1, 2013. Plans are currently underway for future events and administrative structure.

The center, which faced an uncertain future in recent years because of funding constraints, will move from International Programs in the Office of the Provost to the law school. The center will retain its central campus office as a hub for interdisciplinary programs.

Executive Vice President and Provost P. Barry Butler says the new reporting structure will give the center a strong administrative support system, anchored in a college with a long history of scholarly work in human rights.

Read the full story in Iowa Now.

Additional articles about the future of the UICHR appear on the front page of the February 21 Iowa City Press Citizen as well as on the editorial page.
Another article appears in the February 21 Daily Iowan.