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posted on July 25, 2008 at 4:17 PM
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Iowa needs workers, and immigrants want to fill that need. This episode examines the ways the state can encourage legal methods of importing the estimated 300,000 people needed to continue business as usual.
posted on March 17, 2008 at 2:42 PM
Iowa community college officials claim nearly 90 percent of their graduates stay in the state. The schools help expand local economies and help elevate the fortunes of their graduates. We visit Muscatine Community College to see their setup and talk with students and faculty in the community college system.
posted on March 17, 2008 at 10:15 AM
posted on February 21, 2008 at 9:35 AM
posted on February 12, 2008 at 9:56 AM
Pulitzer winning Miami Heard columnist Leonard Pitt Jr. addresses a number of topics ranging from the Obama surge to life in the U.S. since 9-11.
posted on February 11, 2008 at 8:54 AM
posted on February 1, 2008 at 3:59 PM
The use of the Internet and all the devices it spawned as well as some stand alone gadgets has been a boon to modern education. But the devices are not solely employed to tap that knowledge. As filmmaker Woody Allen once said, "I believe in the power of distraction." Today's student population nearly embraces the power of distraction.
posted on February 1, 2008 at 12:40 PM
Michael Bugeja from Iowa State University and Jan Bartlett from the University of Northern Iowa discuss the issues that multitasking brings to today's world.
posted on January 22, 2008 at 11:42 AM
posted on January 15, 2008 at 11:03 AM
David Miles, president of the Iowa Board of Regents and board member of the Iowa College Student Aid Commission, and Jim Sumner, senior counselor, Office of Admissions and Financial Aid for Grinnell College discuss the financial issues facing Iowa's college students.
posted on January 15, 2008 at 11:01 AM
One Iowa community is developing a plan to help pay for student's tuition. It's called the Davenport Promise. Supporters of the plan believe it also offers the city a tool to reverse the out-migration of young families to the suburbs. Longer term it could provide Davenport with a better educated workforce.
posted on January 7, 2008 at 8:16 PM
posted on November 22, 2007 at 1:35 PM
posted on November 21, 2007 at 1:35 PM
Carey Hamilton at 42 years old is learning to read. It's the second hardest thing he's ever done. The hardest thing was to admit that he couldn't read. But Carey is not alone according to a 1996 estimate where Portland State University concluded that 13% of all adult Iowans were illiterate.
posted on November 10, 2007 at 4:28 PM
Ideally located in Iowa's windy northwest, Iowa Lakes Community College in Estherville, is helping the growing workforce needs of the wind energy industry. The college developed one of the first training programs of its kind in the nation. Meeting the needs of students, enrollment in the Wind Energy and Turbine Technology two-year degree program, has grown rapidly.
posted on October 29, 2007 at 6:01 PM
posted on October 9, 2007 at 12:00 AM
posted on October 8, 2007 at 12:00 AM
In this web-exclusive extended interview, John Pappajohn discusses his entrepreneurial beginnings, his successes, and his hopes for the future of small business in Iowa.
posted on October 5, 2007 at 3:08 PM
With a personal fortune estimated at a half a billion dollars, he is giving much of it away. John Pappajohn is sharing his vision by financing five entrepreneurial education centers in the state. Since their inception a decade ago, the centers have produced nearly three thousand business startups in Iowa.
posted on December 11, 2006 at 12:00 AM
Find out how technology is impacting the way students learn.
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