KIRKWOOD INDEX *

Registered credit students at Area X Community College, 1966-67: 199

Total registered Kirkwood credit students, fall 2006: 15,064

Student age range in years, 2006-07: 14 to 79

Total community colleges in U.S., April 2007: 1,202

Kirkwood ranking of all two-year colleges by number of degrees conferred, 2004-05: 28

Kirkwood degree, diploma and certificate graduates, 2005-06: 2,112

Total U.S. community college credit class enrollment, spring 2007: 6,600,000

Average student age respectively, U.S. and Kirkwood: 29, 24.2

Iowa counties represented in Kirkwood student body, fall 2006: 96

States outside Iowa represented: 34

Nations outside U.S. represented, Spring 2007: 100

Average credit class size, 2006-07: 23

Kirkwood Continuing Education registrations, FY 2006: 65,000+

Consecutive years Kirkwood has hosted the Beyond Rubies women’s conference: 27

Total approx. square footage “under roof,” spring 2007: 2,350,000

Number of colleges in the League for Innovation: 19

Number of Iowa community colleges in the League, excluding Kirkwood: 0

Number of student scholarships awarded by Kirkwood Foundation, 2006-07: 1,139

Total value of those scholarships: $1,049,000

Average scholarship award per student: $783

Number of students who requested but did not receive awards: 528

“Unmet need” value, as expressed by average dollars awarded in the same year: $413,400

Estimated total Kirkwood degree graduates/alumni, 1967-2006: 51,000

Total copies/printed “impressions” produced by Printing Services, FY 2006: 15,000,000

Internet “Web hits” on www.kirkwood.edu , May 2006 to April 18, 2007: 125,808,500

Internet “visits” during the same period: 4,387,000

Active Web pages on Kirkwood site, April 20, 2007: 8,093

Average Kirkwood Web hits per day, March 2007: 321,733

Percentage of Fiscal Year 2006 Kirkwood budget supported by tuition income: 54

Percentage in 1986: 34

Local property taxes supporting Kirkwood operations in 1986, 2006, in percentages: 8.6, 4.5

Active Kirkwood Study Abroad programs, 2006-07: 17

Gold medal awards “invented” by Czech Republic to honor Kirkwood vocalists in 2006: 1

Total points scored by Kirkwood Women’s Basketball in 2007 post-season play: 660

Total scored by opponents: 331

Career points scored by Jazmine Sepulveda in her two-year career: 1,000

Estimated years of use of East Campus “temporary buildings” when constructed: 10-12

Number of years in actual use: 38

Year that Selby Ballantyne predicted “this college will have 15,000 students:” 1968

 

 

* (With apologies to Harper’s magazine and the Harper’s Index. Facts as of April 2007.)