Kirkwood Community College offers many opportunities for prospective students to visit campus. These include individual and group visits throughout the year but also include Friday visit days. Friday visit days require an all hands-on deck approach as prospective students are on campus for more than three hours. [Continue Reading »]
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KCC Library Contributed Column 7. Space – Do you know we have a second floor? Our second floor is our quiet study floor and the location of our individual group study rooms. You can reserve the rooms through the library website. If you’re with a group & are [Continue Reading »]
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For many students, energy drinks can be a saving grace.Juggling classes and studying can be time consuming and tiring, and many pull all-nighters to submit their assignments on time or gather that last bit of information before an upcoming test. However, there are negatives to consuming energy drinks. [Continue Reading »]
[Continue Reading »]As students brave the frigid temperatures and bone-chilling winds connecting parking lots to campus buildings, everyone in sight is bundled up to fend off the winter weather. Students have started classes once again, but that is the only thing this time of year has in common with August, [Continue Reading »]
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According to Horticulture Professor Ken Carroll, the Trumpeter Swans pictured above and below are permanent residents of Kirkwood’s Swan Pond. “The open water and access to food is a good place for them to hang out for a period of time. Iowa is an important migratory flyway and [Continue Reading »]
[Continue Reading »]KCC Library Contributed Column Kirkwood Libraries are here for you as you finish up fall semester and take a well-deserved winter break. We have extended hours during the last week of the semester, and limited hours between fall and spring semesters. We also have some fantastic popular books [Continue Reading »]
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Located at the Kirkwood Hotel and Center of Hospitality and Arts, several culinary arts classes are offered including baking, kitchen essentials, hospitality and more. When discussing the program’s enrollment, Program Director David Horsfield said, “It is a two-year program in which altogether around 58 students are enrolled.” [Continue Reading »]
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“Shrek the Musical” closed to a sold-out crowd on Sunday, Nov 6. The musical is based off a book by William Steig that was later adapted into a film by DreamWorks Animation in 2001. “Shrek” was chosen by the Kirkwood Drama department to be the fall musical with [Continue Reading »]
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