The long-anticipated reopening of Iowa Hall has provided Kirkwood Community College students with three levels of exciting spaces to explore this fall. Additions include a full cafeteria, indoor access from other campus buildings and a myriad of new areas for gathering and studying. Just up the open stairwell [Continue Reading »]
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Despite recent efforts to decrease stigmatization, mental health remains a touchy subject, especially on college campuses. Students are often placed under enormous pressure, and not always given a proper outlet to express their emotional needs. Yet, groups such as Active Minds at Kirkwood Community College strive toward decreasing [Continue Reading »]
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After more than five years of strategic planning efforts aimed at reshaping the student experience, Kirkwood Community College administrators recently achieved this goal following the completion of a new $32 million student center – a move they believe will significantly lead to increased student involvement, improve retention rates [Continue Reading »]
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In response to student needs for access to technical programs at Kirkwood Community College’s main campus, last fall administrators in Student Services initiated a pilot transportation program designed to help defray costs. The service, which transports students between the college’s main campus, its Iowa city location, the [Continue Reading »]
[Continue Reading »]Hitting a landmark 1000th blog post LibBlog, the Kirkwood Community College Library Blog, has just published its 1000th post. The library started blogging back in September of 2008. Since then we publish: reports on library news, lists of new books, lists of books by topic, tech tips, research/study [Continue Reading »]
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What: SEEDs club, sustainable garden club at Kirkwood Community College When: SEEDs contributes produce harvested over the summer to campus and community food pantries. Any student is welcome to participate by donating time to help weed, water, harvest produce and maintain the gardens throughout the summer. E-mail nic.jones@kirkwood.edu [Continue Reading »]
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Karen Friedrich started in the Continuing Education and Training services department as a secretary 40 years ago when they were still using typewriters to create documents. Now Friedrich is the administrative assistant for the Vice President of the same department. Below is more information about Friedrich. Q: Tell [Continue Reading »]
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The HVAC program, headed by David Heeran, takes nine months to complete and prepares students for careers servicing commercial and residential HVAC systems, installation of commercial and residential HVAC, design of HVAC systems and more. HVAC technicians can start out in Iowa at $42,400 per year. [Continue Reading »]
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New student center to offer inclusive spaces, resources and café As part of an on-going initiative to foster student engagement, provide inclusive spaces and promote continued academic success among its students, Kirkwood Community College administrators stated the opening of its new student center this fall will create an [Continue Reading »]
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