Career hopefuls can pursue remote jobs. Hybrid positions combine in-office and remote work. AI becomes a decision making factor in hiring processes. On this is Above the Fold we dive into the trends that are shaping the career industry in 2025, with Sauvik Goswami and Abi Case, who are career coaches at the Pomerantz Career Center. 

Above the Fold is hosted and produced by Madeleine Willis.

Daily Iowan News Reporter Evan Watson attended the block party. Watson is a second-year student at the University of Iowa majoring in Finance and Economics. Watson discusses the financial implications the small businesses faced during the street closure. 

Above the Fold is hosted and produced by Madeleine Willis. Reporting from Evan Watson contributed to this episode. 

Chastity Clark is a fourth-year student studying Cinema and Creative Writing. Clark shares her experiences as an undergraduate student studying a writing discipline at a nationally renowned university. 

Above the Fold is hosted and produced by Madeleine Willis. 

Justin Cosner is a lecturer and the director of graduate studies in the department of rhetoric. Last spring, Cosner taught a class on AI intelligence and the future of media in journalism.

Above the Fold is hosted and produced by Madeleine Willis. Reporting from Emma Jane contributed to this episode.

Curran Anderson has worked for the Starbucks Corporation for three and a half years. He has spent the last year working at the Clinton Street location. Anderson discusses the current renovations to Starbucks and the change in his employment for the time being. 

Above the Fold is hosted and produced by Madeleine Willis. Reporting from Natalie Dunlap contributed to this episode.

Then, Iowa City is at times, a parking frenzy. Iowa City’s City Council has approved lowering downtown meter fees from $3 to $2.25 an hour with a 6 to 1 vote.

Hope Minor, a fourth-year public health student, has experience riding public transportation and has endured the many changes to Iowa City and the University of Iowa’s parking departments over the last few years. 

Above the Fold is hosted and produced by Madeleine Willis. Reporting from Evan Watson contributed to this episode.

Also, Senior Reporter at The Daily Iowan, Kate Perez has experience reporting on Mayflower as a former Higher Education reporter. Perez joins this episode to discuss her reporting and also shares her experience as a Mayflower Resident. 

Above the Fold is hosted and produced by Madeleine Willis. Reporting from Jack Moore contributed to this episode.

Above the Fold is hosted and produced by Natalie Dunlap. Reporting from Avi Lapchick contributed to this episode.

Above the Fold is hosted and produced by Natalie Dunlap. Reporting from Kenna Roering and Matt McGowan contributed to this episode.

Above the Fold is hosted and produced by Natalie Dunlap. Reporting from Isabelle Roland contributed to this episode.

Above the Fold is hosted and produced by Natalie Dunlap. Reporting from Avi Lapchick contributed to this episode.

Above the Fold is hosted and produced by Natalie Dunlap. Reporting from Charlie Hickman and Riley Dunn contributed to this episode.

Above the Fold is hosted and produced by Natalie Dunlap. Reporting from Roxy Ekberg contributed to this episode.

Above the Fold is hosted and produced by Natalie Dunlap. Reporting from Sabine Martin and Matt McGowan contributed to this episode.

Above the Fold is hosted and produced by Natalie Dunlap. Reporting from Caden Gantenbein contributed to this episode.

Above the Fold is hosted and produced by Natalie Dunlap. Reporting from Charlie Hickman contributed to this episode.

This episode of Press Box Banter is hosted by Kenna Roering, Colin Votzmeyer, and Matt McGowan and produced by Natalie Dunlap.

Above the Fold is hosted and produced by Natalie Dunlap.

Above the Fold is hosted and produced by Natalie Dunlap.

Above the Fold is hosted and produced by Natalie Dunlap.

Hear from friends of Herky who have been present for big moments in the UI’s history, including the football game following 9/11 and the first Hawkeye Wave in 2017. 

Above the Fold is hosted and produced by Natalie Dunlap.

University of Iowa alumni share the impact the debt has had on their life.

Above the Fold is hosted and produced by Natalie Dunlap.

According to a statement provided by the UI Hospitals and Clinics media relations team, the “eating disorder treatment team works with patients to determine the best level of care for their needs, whether it is through our outpatient clinic, partial hospitalization services, or inpatient services.”

Despite this, a deep gap in treatment options is felt across the state of Iowa. Hear from former patients on the impacts of removing the only inpatient clinic in the state.

Employees say it was easy to build consensus because of their shared experiences working chaotic shifts.

Starbucks shift supervisor Abi Scheppmann said she had never been able to address problems with management in retail jobs before until she became part of a union. 

“Usually you just kind of just have to shut up and take it,” she said. “But it's really cool being able to have a collective voice and see, especially some of the younger baristas, like experience standing up for themselves."

Above the Fold is hosted and produced by Natalie Dunlap

Daniel Matheson, a UI sports law professor, and former associate director of enforcement for the NCAA, discusses NCAA rules and how athletes who bet against their own team could face the harshest punishments.

Above the Fold is hosted and produced by Natalie Dunlap.

Tori Bauer lived in Mayflower from 2019 to 2021. She said the apartment style living of Mayflower made her feel safer in the pandemic. 

Sam Stewart lived in Mayflower between 2010 and 2012. He initially was concerned about his assignment to the dorm after hearing about its bad reputation, but ended up loving it. 

Beth Tunis, a Mayflower resident assistant from 2007 to 2008, met her future husband at the dorm, where they both worked as RAs. 

“I drove by Mayflower yesterday and there were probably 50 students waiting for the bus, and it's this bittersweet moment because it's so exciting that they're in Mayflower because we lived there, but then to know that this could be the last set of students that live there,” Torchia said. “It's a bittersweet, bittersweet moment.”

Above the Fold is hosted and produced by Natalie Dunlap.

This episode details how professors are responding to AI technology.

Russell Chun, associate professor at Hofstra University’s Lawrence Herbert School of Communication in New York, said it is difficult to create one policy to regulate AI for a whole university because every discipline is different.

"I think it's exciting technology, personally, and I think that we kind of all have to and there's so many use cases that are still coming out, right? People are still figuring out, oh, how can I use it? How should I use it? And I think we have to keep an open mind," Chun said.

Several University of Iowa professors have started incorporating AI into classes.

Pamela Bourjaily, UI Tippie College of Business associate professor of accounting instruction, created an assignment last spring where Chat GPT generated a memo and students had to revise it using ChatGPT or on their own.

"Over the summer, I looked at the results, and I learned that the students who performed highest on that assignment, either did not use chat GPT, they did their own writing, or they did a lot of prompting of the ChatGPT and of treating it like a Google search."

Tyler Bell, an assistant professor in the University of Iowa College of Engineering, created an entire course about AI's uses and ethical concerns.

Above the Fold is hosted and produced by Natalie Dunlap.