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The Gazette’s Business Notes is a compendium of the week’s promotions, new hires, certifications, added business lines and business events, among other items, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and the rest of the Corridor.

The Gazette’s Business Notes is a compendium of the week’s promotions, new hires, certifications, added business lines and business events, among other items, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and the rest of the Corridor.

Kirkwood Community College, a 55-year-old Cedar Rapids-based higher education fixture that’s ballooned to a sprawling network of 14 campuses in seven Iowa counties, for the first time is conducting a comprehensive review of its Iowa City campus to ensure it is meeting the needs of the community in which it sits.

The Gazette’s Business Notes is a compendium of the week’s promotions, new hires, certifications, added business lines and business events, among other items, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and the rest of the Corridor.

Iowa’s 15 community colleges collectively are projecting a $2.3 million dip in total resources for the next budget year — contributing to a projected $36.8 million deficit — propelled largely by previous bumps in federal funding, due to COVID-19, and more anticipated facility and program expenses.

As workforce and other national challenges continue to impact airports, airport director Marty Lenss said it’s time to redefine travel, as well as work to address workforce retention and recruitment.

With gas prices still hovering around record levels – and Iowa’s college and university campuses facing a budgetary quandary in the form of inflation – Kirkwood Community College is rolling out a pilot summer program to close its campus offices on Fridays.

The namesake of the University of Iowa’s Henry B. Tippie College of Business – and numerous other funds, societies, scholarships, boards, faculty chairs, professorships, fellowships, and facility rooms – died Sunday at the age of 95.

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Cedar Rapids will allocate $500,000 of its federal American Rescue Plan Act funds toward the College Career Connection program, a new workforce partnership with Kirkwood Community College that will be the first “college promise” initiative among Iowa cities.