From startups to spin-offs, incubators to accelerators, Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and the surrounding area have embraced entrepreneurship. This special section highlights some of those established efforts — some brand new — and the personalities that make them fly.
Sadie Sell and Nicholas Terbovic never owned a business before co-founding Mabel & Pearl Tea Co. a year ago, but training opportunities and community resources have their business purring.
Students in Kirkwood Community College’s nursing, paramedic and respiratory therapy programs came together Wednesday at the school’s Katz Family Healthcare Simulation Center for the first combined simulation exercise since 2020. Faculty and students alike said the experience would prepare students for the fast-paced, collaborative nature of real medical emergencies.
See photos as the Kirkwood Community College Eagles hosted the John Wood Community College Blazers for an NJCAA men’s basketball game.
Earlier this year, local apprenticeship programs received thousands in grants from Iowa Workforce Development. A total of $3.4 million in grants was distributed to Registered Apprenticeship programs across the state that are building Iowa’s workforce pipeline.
More than 54,000 Iowa high school students are jointly enrolled in community college credit coursework, a number that’s been steadily climbing for the last decade.
The Gazette’s annual special section dedicated to skilled trades in Eastern Iowa.
The state of Iowa has both a need and an opportunity to start offering four-year bachelor’s degrees across its 15 community colleges — like those offered on its public and private college and university campuses, according to a final investigative report that lawmakers commissioned over the summer.
They say walking a mile in someone’s shoes is the way to better understanding. So perhaps driving a mile in someone’s truck could do the same. Earlier this summer, one Corridor event took this idea and put it to the (road) test.
The Iowa Workforce Development service relocated to better serve the community in a newer, better equipped location.
Iowa’s only jazz radio station continues into its 50th year of broadcasting jazz for Eastern Iowans
Even as President Donald Trump has proposed eliminating the federal TRIO programs that since the 1960s have aimed to help disadvantaged students attain some form of higher education, Kirkwood Community College this week announced it has landed $3.1 million in TRIO grants over the next five years.
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