Ever since the Derecho hit Cedar Rapids last year, the conversation about the significance of trees has expanded. The fact that the city’s logo is a tree, puts the impact of loss and destruction into perspective. According to City Arborist Todd Fagan, Cedar Rapids lost close to 80,000 [Continue Reading »]
[Continue Reading »]CONTRIBUTED: Home to roughly 2,500 students, hailing from 82 different countries, taking classes online and in-person, Kirkwood Community College’s Iowa City Campus boasts smaller class sizes, professors who can work with students one on one and extracurricular activities including a robust Student Life department, according to Kirkwood’s Student [Continue Reading »]
[Continue Reading »]CONTRIBUTED: Farming is a major part of everyone’s lives, whether they know it or not. Every item of food, clothing, or other major products can be sourced to farming. With how big farming has become, it is obvious that it has changed the world. The Main Ways Farming [Continue Reading »]
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CONTRIBUTED: June 3, 2015 started as another typical day in Ghana. Yet as unexpected rains took over, supported by fires started by an unknown reason, several lives and happiness of the Ghanaian people were taken. The rains start in June and last until September. So, it was no [Continue Reading »]
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CONTRIBUTED: There are many people in the world who do not know where their food comes from. Pork is one example. There are also a lot of people who have begun to believe many different myths and rumors about hog or pig farming that are, in reality, completely [Continue Reading »]
[Continue Reading »]CONTRIBUTED: As Covid-19 spread all over the world in 2020, it took many lives and created incredible sadness. With everyone’s lives being changed dramatically due to the pandemic, what was once normal has changed. My father James Santee, is one whose life changed dramatically due to Covid-19. Having [Continue Reading »]
[Continue Reading »]CONTRIBUTED: Former criminal justice major at Kirkwood Community College, and now police officer, Austin Whiting, shared the advantages of going to a community college instead of a university. Whiting said he chose a community college over a university due to the cost being more affordable. He also liked the flexibility. With a busy schedule, he said students can go to community college and still [Continue Reading »]
[Continue Reading »]“Learn because you love learning. Become a nurse because you are empathetic, want to help people in their most vulnerable moments, and because it challenges you without consuming your life.” CONTRIBUTED: Hannah Wyland came to Iowa to pursue a career in academia. While earning her Master’s Degree in [Continue Reading »]
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CONTRIBUTED: From an international student who studied science (genetics and genetic counseling) to an exchange students trainer to the International Students Coordinator for the Community College Initiative (CCI) program at Kirkwood Community College, Elizabeth O’Brien has had many experiences. A native of Palatine, Ill., O’Brien shares her experience [Continue Reading »]
[Continue Reading »]CONTRIBUTED: Samah Abdullah, originally from Egypt, decided to be a teacher in the U.S. and is now teaching Arabic at Kirkwood Community College. She is an awardee of the Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant who loves reading books, walking in the rain and cooking her favorite food: pasta. Abdullah said [Continue Reading »]
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