(Radio Iowa) – Today (Friday) is the last day on the job for the president of Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids. Lori Sundberg is retiring after being appointed president in 2017. Sundberg was Kirkwood’s first female president and she looks back on her six years in office. “I think probably the biggest accomplishment was getting through the pandemic,” Sundberg says, “and keeping the institution financially strong during that time, but also, really trying to figure out how to support students during a really critical time.”

Sundberg’s retirement will bring in a new president: Kristie Fisher, a Kirkwood graduate who has been president of Iowa Valley Community Colleges in Marshalltown since 2019. Kirkwood has an enrollment that exceeds 12-thousand students.