Articles Tagged: Kirkwood

A look at Eastern Iowa’s trucking industry.

They say walking a mile in someone’s shoes is the way to better understanding. So perhaps driving a mile in someone’s truck could do the same. Earlier this summer, one Corridor event took this idea and put it to the (road) test.

The Iowa Workforce Development service relocated to better serve the community in a newer, better equipped location.

Iowa’s only jazz radio station continues into its 50th year of broadcasting jazz for Eastern Iowans

Even as President Donald Trump has proposed eliminating the federal TRIO programs that since the 1960s have aimed to help disadvantaged students attain some form of higher education, Kirkwood Community College this week announced it has landed $3.1 million in TRIO grants over the next five years.

With its new flight school and aviation management program set to launch next month, Coe College has announced a new partnership with Kansas City-based ATD Flight Systems – affording students an expedited exam process and ticket behind the control wheel.

Expanding Iowa’s community college offerings to include four-year bachelor’s degrees could address the state’s growing workforce needs, shrink its “educational deserts” in rural communities, and improve earnings for Iowans.

For nearly two decades, Kirkwood Community College has provided summertime Kirkwood Interactive Camps for Kids — also known as KICK. …

Kirkwood is launching KICK Career Camps, focused on a specific high-demand career, allowing students to explore various paths by working on projects led by experienced industry professionals. While the college has been focused on camp experiences for younger students for years, these programs are focused on older students ages 12-16 who are already thinking about career exploration.

City View Community High School is moving this fall from its location in downtown Cedar Rapids to the Linn County Regional Center in Hiawatha. Iowa BIG, a project-based learning program in Cedar Rapids, will move into the Cedar Rapids Metro Economic Alliance — where City View is currently located.

Leaders of Kirkwood Community College’s Continuing Education Division were intrigued by the credentialing as a way to recognize students’ completion of noncredit coursework that won’t show up on their transcript.

Iowa’s 15 community colleges in 2024 made year-over-year enrollment gains in 2024 thanks largely to record joint enrollment by high school students wanting to earn community college credit at no cost to them or their families.

The Greater Cedar Rapids Housing & Building Association invites you to explore the Spring 2025 Parade of Homes.

Kirkwood Community College and IowaWORKS — the state’s workforce services network — have announced a new partnership that will create a shared Cedar Rapids location near Kirkwood. The IowaWORKS office at Lindale Mall will close.

“I've already done 42 in-person town halls, and I'm doing a telephone town hall next week,” Hinson said Friday. “So I am absolutely committed to continuing to do town halls this Congress. And we're working on continuing to get those scheduled.”