Gibson is an aspiring journalist with a variety of roles under his belt including his roles as news editor and managing editor for the Communique. Once he earns his associate degree from Kirkwood, he plans on transferring to a four-year university to major in Mass Communications and Journalism. Once earning his bachelor's degree, he intends to follow his dream of becoming a sportswriter.
After 37 years as the Kirkwood Community College women’s basketball coach, Kim Muhl has announced his retirement, closing a career that began long before he became an Eagle. Before Kirkwood In 2007, “The Final Season”, a movie about the Norway high school baseball team, was released to theaters. [Continue Reading »]
[Continue Reading »]The Kirkwood Community College Eagles are known for dominant play on the playing field, but what does it take to unlock that strong play? The unsurprising answer is practice, and lots of it. Every athlete at Kirkwood had to work hard to get to where they are. They’ve [Continue Reading »]
[Continue Reading »]Forty years ago, the late great Jim Henson’s creation dominated pop culture. In recent years, however, the once most sensational, inspirational, celebrational, muppetational Muppets have become a forgotten ghost amongst a slew of IP acquisitions made by the Walt Disney Company. There was once a time when Muppets [Continue Reading »]
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Over winter break, the NJCAA announced the volleyball All-American teams. Featured on the teams were setter Kaci Johnson and hitter Carly Wazac of the Kirkwood Eagles. Johnson was featured on the first team for the second consecutive season, while Wazac made the second team. “It feels pretty good,” [Continue Reading »]
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Shareef Madani, engineering major, is a student at Kirkwood Community College who has taken his future into his own hands, opening Tripod Studio HQ, a photography company located in downtown Iowa City. The company does photography, videography and editing. One of the primary goals of Madani is to [Continue Reading »]
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“I love (stats), they are important to me, and I will always use them,” said David Brown, Eagles Head Coach of the No. 1 ranked NJCAA volleyball team in the nation. In every sport there are statistics and you can find one for any quantifiable action found [Continue Reading »]
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The Kirkwood Community College Eagles have a new athletic trainer in Lacey Tierney. With degrees from both Coe College and the University of Iowa, Tierney has a strong background in sports medicine. She also worked with Iowa City High as an athletic trainer as part of an outreach [Continue Reading »]
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Faculty members from the music department took the stage Oct. 8 with the Standard Java session on Iowa Hall Stage. A new house band featuring choir director Fred Kiser, director of instrumental music Chris Navarrete and piano instructor Julia Andrews made its debut in front of a small [Continue Reading »]
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Once the Director of the Kirkwood Community College Jones County Regional Center, Lisa Folken now teaches Fundamentals of Oral Communications and Public Speaking at the Cedar Rapids campus. She has been with Kirkwood since 2005 and retired into a lesser role with the college in order to spend [Continue Reading »]
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