Students can use their EagleCards for free activities here at Kirkwood Community College, including bus transportation, sports activities, access to the Rec Center and tickets to school musicals. You can also use your EagleCard like a debit card, where you can deposit funds into your account and use [Continue Reading »]
[Continue Reading »]Touchdown Eagles! Those are two words no Kirkwood Community College student has ever heard but many would like to hear. Students at Kirkwood have been clamoring for a football team for many years, yet we still don’t have one. A big reason students want a football team [Continue Reading »]
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Members of the Kirkwood Student Nursing Association (KSNA) volunteered at the 18th annual Five Seasons Stand Down on Thursday, Sept. 12. The event was hosted by the Valor Board, which is a 100% volunteer organization. Stand Downs are typically one- to three-day events during which VA staff and [Continue Reading »]
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A firefighter with 49 years of service wanted a way to honor and remember not only the 343 firefighters, but each of the 2,977 victims that were lost on Sept. 11, 2001. That became a reality for Kirkwood Community College instructor John Conyn, who, along with the [Continue Reading »]
[Continue Reading »]Experience to focus on landscape, rocks, and people of South Africa Next summer, Kirkwood Community College students will have an opportunity to broaden their horizons and study beyond the borders of the United States. Kirkwood recently received a grant for a planned expedition to South Africa in July [Continue Reading »]
[Continue Reading »]On July 30, Kirkwood Community College and the University of Iowa jointly announced a new Medical Laboratory Science (MLS) bachelor’s degree program in response to what they state is a nationwide demand for medical laboratory scientists. Kizer Friedley, MLS program director at Kirkwood, stated she is very [Continue Reading »]
[Continue Reading »]Honors projects align with student interests, academic goals The Kirkwood Community College Honors Program is still accepting applicants for the fall. The program is designed for students seeking to explore their academic interests in greater depth. This program offers students the ability to design and construct a project [Continue Reading »]
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More than 370 traffic-related deaths occurred within the state of Iowa in 2023, according to The Cedar Rapids Gazette. Speeding and distracted driving only inflate these numbers. Unfortunately, both are common sights at Kirkwood Community College. The speed limit on campus ranges from 15 to 25 miles per [Continue Reading »]
[Continue Reading »]Can you imagine that a person can go from a high temperature to a temperature of negative 13 degrees? Can you understand that someone who has moved finds himself in front of a passport officer who asks him in a language, and he doesn’t know what to say [Continue Reading »]
[Continue Reading »]Kirkwood Community College’s spring production is a show targeted toward children called ‘The Girl Who Swallowed a Cactus.’ The play will be performed on Thursday, March 28, at 6:30 p.m. and Saturday, March 30, at 2 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. “We picked this play because we knew we [Continue Reading »]
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