South Midwest HERC

The Benefits Office offers services in benefit selection, enrollment, and changes, as well as spending account claims processing, and the strategic use of your benefits.

Benefits A - Z includes a comprehensive list of available benefits and more.

Campus Culture

• Campus events offer a rich array of arts, humanities and cultural events that reflect our population and define our community. Options include national and international art exhibits, performing arts and arts programs, community and professional theater troupes, live musical entertainment and community festivals, close at hand and often free.
• The open atmosphere of the university encourages vigorous discourse and respect for diversity. The UI sponsors various diversity resources.
• At the University of Iowa, we recognize the important relationship between productive careers and quality personal lives. UI Work/Life Resources are designed to assist you to successfully build a career and build a life.
• Faculty and staff play an active role in university governance and have many opportunities to participate on campus governing bodies.
• The campus is safe and easy to get around.
• The UI and its programs rank among the top 20 public research universities in the nation and its research is internationally renowned.
• The University Library is one of the largest research collections in the country.  In addition to the print collections, there are also hundreds of multi-media and electronic resources, millions of microforms, and thousands of videos as well as unique manuscripts, rare books, and the archives of the University.
• The UI provides staff many opportunities to collaborate with health and educational programs throughout the state.
• Recreational Services offers staff and their families numerous programs, facilities and services. 
• Members of the University community have a long reputation as strong contributors to the local and nearby communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. Our staff use their talents beyond the workplace through active engagement in their neighborhoods and communities so that all may benefit and flourish from this reciprocal partnership. This investment in the community is readily apparent from the breadth of organizations and activities available throughout the area.
• In cases of local, national and international emergency, the University community organizes rapid response efforts, providing cash donations, supplies, expertise, and services. We have opened our homes, classrooms and laboratories to those in need. Ours is a community that responds with its heart as well as its resources.

We understand the link between diversity and excellence in education.

Diversity, broadly defined, is essential to the educational experience and central to all parts of the University's mission. The University of Iowa embraces our responsibility to create a welcoming environment for all members of the community, including underrepresented faculty, staff, and students; persons with disabilities; lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons; persons of disadvantaged socioeconomic status; and nontraditional and international students.

Dual Career Services are designed to provide assistance for partners/spouses of recently hired UI Faculty and Staff.  UI Dual Career Services staff are happy to assist spouses/partners with their job search needs.  They can assist with updating resumes/curriculum vitae, discuss job search techniques, and provide information on ways to connect in the Iowa City-Cedar Rapids corridor.