For just the sixth time in Kirkwood Community College history, the 58-year-old campus on Wednesday inaugurated a new president -- and Kristie Fisher, who officially started her tenure Oct. 30, did not want all the pomp and circumstance of a ceremony.
None of the 380 high schools in Iowa are reporting any “completed” FAFSA applications this year simply because they can’t, thanks to rampant delays and what some have called a “smorgasbord of errors” and glitches.
Overall, fewer students enrolled in credit-earning courses across Iowa’s 15 community colleges in the full 2023 academic year – even as more students than ever before jointly enrolled in one or more courses while still in high school.
Kirkwood Continuing Education has options for adults who want to learn yet can’t find the time to commit to a class schedule.
A newly launched, partially online program at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids is making it possible for Iowa students living in rural areas or who have busy work schedules to more easily pursue EMT certification.
Nearly a year after Kirkwood Community College announced the closure of its 32-year-old Iowa City campus on the southeast side of town, Oral-B Laboratories has agreed to buy the 84,277-square-foot property for $6.4 million – pending 120 days of “due diligence.”
The path Kristie Fisher took from student at Prairie High School in the 1980s to president of Kirkwood Community College today was a lot longer and more winding than the two miles of physical distance that separate the schools on the south end of Cedar Rapids.
City kicks in $1 million in ARPA funds to help 249 students
Kirkwood Community College’s new Veterinary Technology Center officially opened Thursday. The facility features 18,000 square feet of instructional clinical space, technical classrooms, administrative and lounge space, and animal housing.
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With a continued bus driver shortage, schools getting creative in filling vacancies,
Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids built a wind turbine on its campus in 2012. But since May of this year, the turbine has been locked in place. Why is that? And what are the college’s plans for the turbine?
Under a decade into its 50-year, $2 million-plus lease agreement with the Grant Wood Area Education Agency for space in its Coralville-based regional center, Kirkwood has decided to end its arrangement with Grant Wood early — paying back $1.7 million to make it happen.
The Federal Aviation Administration has approved Kirkwood Community College’s new aviation maintenance technology program, allowing it to become a certified aviation maintenance school and begin offering classes this fall.
Earlier this year, six students graduated from the pilot cohort of the Child Care Foundations and Communication Class at Kirkwood, an “earn and learn” program geared toward helping English language learners get the certifications and experience necessary to be successful on the job — while getting paid.
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