News Briefs – March 9, 2023
Holocaust survivor speaker The college will host guest speaker Tova Friedman, on Tuesday, March 28, at 1:30 p.m. in Ballantyne Auditorium. According to the college’s website, “Friedman was one of the youngest people to emerge from Auschwitz. After surviving the liquidation of the Jewish ghetto in Central Poland where [Continue Reading »]
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Dance Marathon: ‘Tonight’s gonna be a good night’
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Free computer skills workshop Students are invited to attend a computer skills workshop on March 30, to improve typing skills. Those in attendance will learn about word processing and how to format simple documents in Office 365. Managing files on Kirkwood computers will also be covered. The workshop [Continue Reading »]
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Black History Month celebration
Words can often be powerful and highly distinct. Additionally, they carry a unique history, meaning, and value linked to the history of a people. With this in mind, members of Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society sought to discover this connection to African-American history through a display of historical [Continue Reading »]
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Students place first in national competition
Students at Kirkwood Community College recently won first place for Associates Programs at the national competition for the National Home Builders Association. The following is a Q&A with Dave Becicka, construction management assistant professor; Joe Greathouse, construction technology professor and Miranda Bisping, architectural technologies major and student project [Continue Reading »]
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College debuts InstaPLAY: In 24 hours students write, direct and perform play
Many college students have had to engage in at least one late-night study session in preparation for an intense exam. On the evening of Friday, Feb. 10, students burned the midnight oil under a slightly different type of pressure: They needed to write an original script for a [Continue Reading »]
[Continue Reading »]Scoop on scholarships: Kirkwood offers millions of dollars in scholarships each year
Even though it may seem early, it’s time to start thinking about the fall 2023 semester at Kirkwood Community College. The college awards more than $3 million in scholarships to students each year, so every student planning to return for the 2023-24 school year should be thinking about [Continue Reading »]
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Iowa City campus closing: President announces move to Regional Center in Coralville
Kirkwood Community College President Dr. Lori Sundberg recently announced the closing of the Iowa City Campus. Starting in the Fall of 2023, the campus will relocate to the Kirkwood Regional Center at the University of Iowa in Coralville. In an e-mail to students, Sundberg stated, “The college came [Continue Reading »]
[Continue Reading »]ChatGPT questions liability of students’ writing
ChatGPT quick facts In recent years, artificial intelligence has made remarkable strides in the field of natural language processing, and one model that has been making waves is ChatGPT. Developed by OpenAI, ChatGPT is a large language model that has been trained on a massive dataset of text, [Continue Reading »]
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