Editing Upper Iowa University (section)

==UIU Campus and town of Fayette==
Upper Iowa's traditional {{convert|100|acre|km2|adj=on}} residential campus is in Fayette, Iowa; a small town of 1,200 residents in the county of the same name, in far northeast Iowa. In 1984, the former Fayette Community School District merged with the larger North Fayette County Community Schools, headquartered in the nearby county seat town of West Union. In 2018, North Fayette itself merged with the Valley Community School District, to form the North Fayette Valley Community Schools, leaving Fayette with neither an elementary nor a secondary school. Consequently, Fayette is one of the few communities in the nation with a university but no public school within its boundaries.<ref>{{cite web |access-date=2023-04-11 |url=http://www.pfbestplaces.com/default.asp?pageAction=Display&Region=Midwest |website=www.pfbestplaces.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090919070335/http://www.pfbestplaces.com:80/default.asp?pageAction=Display&Region=Midwest |archive-date=Sep 19, 2009 |lang=en |title=Best Places}}</ref>

The Fayette campus is primarily for undergraduate students, but a master's degree in education is also offered, along with two-week IXEL classes in the summer. Students can choose from 40 majors, with the most popular being Elementary Education and Teaching, Marketing/Marketing Management, General, and Natural Resources/Conservation. The Pleggenkuhle Prairie, donated by the Pleggenkuhle family to UIU, is {{convert|3|acre|m2}} of virgin [[prairie]] northwest of Hawkeye. It is used as a teaching tool for students to learn about the prairie ecosystem and to conduct prescribed burns and research projects at the site.