Registered
credit students at Area X Community College, 1966-67: 199
Total
registered
Student age
range in years, 2006-07: 14 to 79
Total
community colleges in
Total
Average
student age respectively,
Iowa counties
represented in
States outside
Nations
outside
Average credit
class size, 2006-07: 23
Kirkwood
Continuing Education registrations, FY 2006: 65,000+
Consecutive
years
Total approx.
square footage “under roof,” spring 2007: 2,350,000
Number of
colleges in the League for Innovation: 19
Number of
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
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
Average
Kirkwood Web hits per day, March 2007: 321,733
Percentage of
Fiscal Year 2006
Percentage in
1986: 34
Local property
taxes supporting
Active
Kirkwood Study Abroad programs, 2006-07: 17
Gold medal
awards “invented” by
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.)