Kirkwood Community College will pay its new President Kristie Fisher officially inaugurated this week an annual salary of $350,000 for the budget year that ends June 30, according to her three-year contract.
For just the sixth time in Kirkwood Community College history, the 58-year-old campus on Wednesday inaugurated a new president and Kristie Fisher, who officially started her tenure Oct. 30, did not want all the pomp and circumstance of a ceremony.
Overall, fewer students enrolled in credit-earning courses across Iowa’s 15 community colleges in the full 2023 academic year – even as more students than ever before jointly enrolled in one or more courses while still in high school.