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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CONTRIBUTED: Kirkwood student Hamdiatu Yakubu, from West Africa, talks about her big decision to attend college in Iowa. Q: Where are you from? And what did you like most about where you’re from? A: I am from Ghana, West Africa. What I like most about Ghana would be our tolerance and peaceful nature. Q: What made [Continue Reading »]
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CONTRIBUTED: JJ Peters, a new student at Kirkwood Community College, is using his time at the school as a steppingstone to a bright future in sports journalism. Q: How long have you been a Kirkwood student and how’s your experience been thus far? A: I’ve been here for about [Continue Reading »]
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CONTRIBUTED: Everyone has stories to share about their education, journey, dreams, struggles, uncertainties and plans. Kirkwood Community College student Addisen Santee shared an overview of her education journey in a question-and-answer interview. Q: Tell me a little about yourself. A: I like taking pictures, hanging out with my [Continue Reading »]
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CONTRIBUTED: Kirkwood Community College student Noah Barnhart is planning to go to the University of Iowa to after finishing his classes at Kirkwood. Q: What are your favorite hobbies to do when you’re not doing classes? A: Writing about sports, playing video games and hanging out with friends. [Continue Reading »]
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Contributed Content: What is Grief? It’s what we feel in response to a loss, even if it is the loss of your typical schedule or your sense of safety and control. Grief can be complex – to get more technical, it’s the process of social, somatic and emotional reactions to perceptions of loss. But what the heck does [Continue Reading »]
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Contributed Content: If you have ever felt the need to talk to someone, to get a different perspective, to find a neutral listener, to learn new ways of coping, or just to feel like you’re not carrying a burden alone, you have found some of the reasons people benefit from [Continue Reading »]
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Contributed Content: Library Services on the Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Campuses has made many changes to our space, services, and resources in the months since March, when the college closed up its buildings and moved online. We worked in that time to meet as many student needs [Continue Reading »]
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Contributed Content: Library Services has recently created a new internal homepage especially for our current students and faculty. The easiest way to access this new page is to use the Library button in MyHub, found under Student Links and Employee Links. It is also linked within Talon’s Student Tools, [Continue Reading »]
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KCC Library Contributed Column “Information Search Strategies: Good and Quick” In an ideal world, we students and scholars would have infinite time to thoroughly research each topic of interest and carefully assess and evaluate every article, book, or video we find. However, in the rush of our daily [Continue Reading »]
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