Iowa Regents Select Carson Holloway to Lead Center for Intellectual Freedom
The Iowa Board of Regents has selected Carson Holloway, chair of political science at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, as the new director of the Center for Intellectual Freedom at the University of Iowa.
Cedar Rapids Waterloo Iowa City & Dubuque, IA, October 20, 2026 —
The Iowa Board of Regents has selected Carson Holloway as the new director of the Center for Intellectual Freedom at the University of Iowa, according to the information provided.
Holloway is chair of political science at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. The summary does not provide further details about his background, his work at the university, or when he is expected to begin the director role.
The information provided also does not specify the selection date, the process used to choose Holloway, or the board’s stated reasons for selecting him. It does not describe the director’s responsibilities or outline the center’s current or planned work. No comments from Holloway, the Iowa Board of Regents, the University of Iowa or the center were included.
The selection places Holloway in a leadership role at a University of Iowa center, while he is identified in the summary as holding an academic leadership position at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. The summary does not say whether he will leave that position, continue in it, or take on the new role under a particular arrangement. It also does not identify the center’s previous director or provide information about any transition.
Further details about the appointment, including its timing and the scope of the role, were not provided in the available summary. No additional outcomes or next steps were specified.
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