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Currents Magazine March 13, 2013

Jeff Mitchell links Kirkwood with Corridor companies

Jeff Mitchell Jeff Mitchell is right at home with tight timelines. It’s been that way from his first days at Kirkwood. “I started on August 2, 1978. I was hired to teach welding inspection. I had to write the curriculum, purchase the equipment and launch the program. I had 14 days to do that.” Mitchell’s [...]

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Currents Magazine March 13, 2013

Kristin McVay: Paying the Kirkwood family spirit forward

Kristin McVay Kristin McVay was always a self-proclaimed social butterfly who didn’t aim for leadership. And yet, at just 30 years old, she is an accomplished leader: she’s the Peri-Anesthesia Manager for St. Luke’s Hospital in Cedar Rapids, holding a dual master’s in Science in Nursing and Health Administration. Still, when asked what her current [...]

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Currents Magazine March 13, 2013

Kirkwood Regional Centers: More Facilities for Students

Jones County Regional Center From the time the first shovel struck the ground to carve out a niche of cornfield for the main campus, Kirkwood has and always will be the community’s college. This promise to eastern Iowa is nowhere more evident than Kirkwood’s new regional centers, set to become community campuses crafted by deep [...]

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Currents Magazine March 13, 2013

Scholarship in Mary Huffman’s name tops 42 years of giving

Mary Huffman Mary Huffman’s school spirit is alive and well – and she’s got 42 years of working at Kirkwood Community College to prove it. There’s no denying this vivacious Kirkwood fan. She bustles with enthusiasm for helping Kirkwood students, wearing the distinctive Kirkwood blue. Huffman’s allegiance to Kirkwood goes back to its very beginnings, [...]

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