EICC Success Stories
Inspiring stories from our community.
There Is No Perfect Time. Bruce Started Anyway | Bruce Powell
Bruce Powell had a steady job at ADM and a place he knew. He also had a pull toward something else.
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She Didn’t Grow Up on a Farm. She Built a Future in Agriculture Anyway | Kylie Daily
She did not grow up on a farm. She was from Davenport, about 25 minutes from the Eastern Iowa Community Colleges Muscatine campus. And for a while, she did not think college would be part of her plan.
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For Him | Lauren Eden
Lauren Eden remembers her younger brother coming home from school and walking a little differently than normal. At 17 years old, Oliver was active and healthy. Nobody thought much of it in the beginning.
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After Losing Almost Everything, EICC Graduate Kept Moving | Kyle Behrens
A fire had taken nearly everything: his possessions, his memories, and the place he knew as home. When it started, Behrens ran upstairs to save his dog. By the time it was over, he had to figure out where to stay and how to keep going.
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Not the expected timeline. Still the finish line | Rachel White
She was class president, one of 58 students in the Class of 2020, and had already been chosen as a speaker when COVID changed the ceremony. Then Basic Training changed the timeline again.
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First-Generation EICC Graduate Leads With Purpose | Ezequiel Alvarado Jr.
A Muscatine High School graduate, Alvarado arrived at EICC with dual enrollment credits already earned. What he thought would take two years took one.
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The Study That Refused to Stay Small
The slime mold didn’t care that it was being watched. In the soft glow of the microbiology lab at EICC’s Scott campus, students in white coats leaned over a row of Petri dishes, whispering predictions the way fans might around a racetrack.
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From the Oil Field to the Classroom
Jonathan Huddleston did not come to EICC looking for a fresh start. He came with experience, direction, and a clear reason for being here.
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Chris Bolin: Where He Is Now, and Why
“Most of my days revolve around class,” he said. “I’m taking 17 credit hours, five classes. I work three part-time jobs, and I’m also on the Formula SAE race team.”
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Built Here, Teaching Here
Emersyn Keefer knows where everything is in the kitchen. The knives. The ovens. The rhythm of a class settling in. She should — she learned it here.
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