It was a bit uncanny when Sarah Keen, a University of Iowa archivist, walked into the library at Iowa Wesleyan University this past summer. In some ways, the newly closed campus had hardly changed ...

The University of Iowa football team’s first mascot was a live black bear cub named Burch, who served as the team mascot from 1908 to 1910. Coach Mark Catlin Sr. acquired Burch in 1908 and ...

MOUNT PLEASANT, Iowa — Following the closure of Iowa Wesleyan University in May and a subsequent auction, the remaining items on campus are being given away to the community in a series of ...

Looking back on a year since the Iowa Wesleyan University campus closed after 181 years. In the back of a construction equipment auction house in Mount Pleasant, there is a row of storage units.

MOUNT PLEASANT, Iowa (KWQC) - Hundreds wandered the campus buildings at Iowa Wesleyan University’s last goodbye. The school closed its doors when it ran out of money 181 years after it opened.

Iowa Wesleyan University announced its closure one year ago and since then campus buildings in Mt. Pleasant have been sold and the university archives have been divided. There are efforts to try ...