For three semesters, Kirkwood Community College instructor Mark McCreary has charged his ethics students to do something they would consider ethically right. McCreary, a philosophy instructor on the Cedar Rapids campus, said he felt what he had been assigning in the past was too much memorization and “too much on the objective knowledge instead of [...]
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Al Mart started doing custom-cabinet work right after he graduated from Cedar Rapids’ Jefferson High School. For the past 20 years he has worked in all phases of residential and commercial construction, including simple and full-scale remodels, installations and even building houses for several years. “I realized early on that I wanted to be self-employed [...]
continue »I told someone that 2012 was going to be my year of adventure. I didn’t know what that meant at the time, but in the last 11 months, I’ve gone skydiving and zip-lining. I went whitewater rafting down the Shoshone River in Wyoming and horseback riding in the mountains. I participated in the Des Moines [...]
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New employees MercyCare Community Physicians hired Katie Wilcox (see photo) as a family nurse practitioner for MercyCare North in Cedar Rapids. She most recently served as an urgent care and express care nurse practitioner for the Mayo Clinic Health System in Albert Lea, Minn. City Workplace Uniforms and Mats in Oelwein hired Jenn Drewelow (see [...]
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New employees Gabe Rohwedder (see photo) joined Securian Advisors MidAmerica Inc. in Hiawatha as a financial adviser. Rohwedder is also a registered representative. Tanager Place in Cedar Rapids named Emily Hoover (see photo) as community relations specialist. Emily Muhlbach (see photo) was named public relations specialist. Victoria Wieben (see photo) was appointed as clinical therapist. [...]
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MARION – He might be a diamond in the rough or maybe he’s a jewel from the Emerald Isle. Either way, Sean Cleary has come a long way to chase down his dream of a career in golf. The 21-year-old left his home in Rathcabbin, a village in western Tipperary County of Ireland, to attend Kirkwood [...]
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CEDAR RAPIDS – A planned new Kirkwood Regional Center at the University of Iowa will offer partnerships and collaborations focused on science, technology, engineering and math education unlike any other partnerships found nationally, officials leading the project said. The new regional center will bring together the strengths and resources of Kirkwood Community College, the UI, [...]
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Nile Dusdieker contacted me about the Eastern Iowa Orchid Society’s upcoming show at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids next weekend. Dusdieker, an orchid judge, said the Iowa City-based club decided to do a regional orchid show for the first time this year. They partnered with Kirkwood’s Floral Careers for the show, this Saturday and [...]
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CEDAR RAPIDS — A Kirkwood Community College student who is blind said Friday he was robbed this week after trying to do a good deed. Patrick Dunfee said early Sunday morning, he got up to take his dog, York, outside at his apartment complex off Kirkwood Boulevard SW. “I heard a kid on the sidewalk [...]
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Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids ties for the second-lowest tuition this fall among Iowa’s 15 community colleges. Kirkwood’s 2012-13 tuition per credit hour this fall is $133, the same as Des Moines Area Community College, according to the annual report on community college tuition and fees presented to the State Board of Education Thursday. [...]
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