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Nearly 10 years after leaving her vice president position at Kirkwood Community College for a senior post at ACT Inc., Kristie Fisher is returning to the Cedar Rapids campus — but this time for the top job as Kirkwood’s sixth president.
After waiting 52 years to hire its first female president in 2018, Kirkwood Community College last week introduced three women as finalists to succeed Lori Sundberg when she retires later this year.
Kirkwood Community College last week raised the tax levy rate for property owners across its service area by 5 cents – bringing its overall property tax levy to $1.39 for the upcoming 2024 budget year, or 3.8 percent above the current rate.
Iowa’s jointly-enrolled high schoolers last year earned a total 1,804 degrees, diplomas, or certificates alongside their high school diplomas – marking a 61 percent jump in a single year from 2021, according to the new report.
KICK leaders ‘look for trends’ to appeal to more area students
Both full-time and part-time employees were laid off in two programs the college is closing: Dental Technology and the Energy Production and Distribution program.
A month after announcing plans to relocate and cut services in Iowa City, Kirkwood Community College on Monday aired plans to close two programs, downsize a third, and eliminate faculty and staff positions to “bring future budgets in line with expected revenue.”
Also, Iowa City school board approves land purchase agreement that will expand the footprint of Iowa City High School.
A women’s basketball gem, veteran Kirkwood coach Kim Muhl will notch his 1,000th career win next month.
For the first time in more than a decade, Iowa’s 15 community colleges in the last full academic year saw a collective bump in credit-seeking students — although the total number of hours they took continued to fall, sustaining a trend of students taking lighter course loads.
The Cedar-Rapids based community college confirmed Thursday it’s moving most of its operations from that facility to its regional center in Coralville.
The coming spring semester likely will be the last for Kirkwood Community College’s Iowa City campus – at least in its current form – after a recent study of the site found the institution would have to spend nearly $40 million over the next 24 years to maintain the campus that’s seen a 75-percent enrollment drop in the last five years.
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