The Board of Directors of the Area Ten Vocational Technical School held its first organization meeting fortuitously in the Kirkwood Room at the Roosevelt Hotel on May 18, 1966. The newly elected Board of Directors was sworn in prior to the meeting by…
In 1966, the Area Ten Board selected a site one-half mile south of Highway 30 on Bowling Street for its new campus. The 315-acre site was purchased for $407,500 at an average cost of $1,300 per acre. In the summer of 1968 construction began on the…
Linn Hall is the first permanent building on the main campus. Construction began in 1968 and was ready for classes Fall 1969. Indicative of Kirkwood's "can-do" spirit, the college contracted with two contractors to help speed the construction to…
A seven-page paper providing the historical background of the development of Iowa community college/junior colleges. We do not know the origin of this paper.
A summary of the law (SF 550) passed by the Iowa legislature on May 29, 1965 which was the enabling legislation to create community colleges in Iowa. This document, commonly referred to as the "Ten Point Law", stipulates those educational services…
A 50-page history of the first ten years of the college. It was incorporated into the 1976 annual report which was included in the Volume 6., No.2, Summer 1976 issue of the "Community Quarterly".
