Everyone has a different career path. Some students hope to land high-ranking, world-class jobs, while others prefer working in small businesses. Students at Kirkwood Community College recently interviewed one another about what interests them in their chosen majors. KaVarez Coleman, a first-year Kirkwood student majoring in HVAC installation, [Continue Reading »]
[Continue Reading »]
The saying goes “Virginia Beach is for Lovers,” but this November, Virginia Beach was for Kirkwood Community College. Ten Kirkwood parks and natural resources students attended the National Association of Interpreters conference in this coastal city. Each student who attended is a member of the Women in [Continue Reading »]
[Continue Reading »]
The life of a professor is something most people would not understand unless they lived it every day. Most students don’t know what it’s like or how similar or different it is from their own lives and schedules. Lisa Angelella is a professor of English at Kirkwood Community [Continue Reading »]
[Continue Reading »]Kirkwood Community College continues to demonstrate its commitment to student success by offering a wide range of scholarship opportunities to support both domestic and international students. Every year, the Kirkwood Foundation awards more than $3 million in scholarships to deserving students across various programs and departments. Applications for [Continue Reading »]
[Continue Reading »]How did the club get started? It was started by a group of Kirkwood students who love to talk and discuss all aspects of anime, animation, manga, games, etc. What is the purpose of the club? To make new friends that share an interest in anime, watch and discuss anime, [Continue Reading »]
[Continue Reading »]
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 »]
[Continue Reading »]
How did the club get started? The Navigators has been a club on Kirkwood’s campus for a number of years. Records are spotty prior to COVID, but we believe the club has been at Kirkwood for 10-15 years. But the Navigators organization has been around since the 1930s when [Continue Reading »]
[Continue Reading »]The short answer is yes, Google is a very useful research tool. However, like any tool it can’t do everything (you wouldn’t use a hammer on a screw). Also like any tool, it helps to learn the most effective and safe ways to use it. Here are two [Continue Reading »]
[Continue Reading »]
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 »]
[Continue Reading »]How did the club get started? In early 2022, a student who had run competitively during high school connected with the Clubs team in Student Life and expressed interest in starting a running club. They connected her to me and we developed a vision and strategy together and officially [Continue Reading »]
[Continue Reading »]