Rose Rennekamp

One of Rose Rennekamp's life goals is to help open doors of opportunity through education. She was the first in her family to earn a bachelor's degree, and she is grateful for the opportunities it gave her. Rose has counseled students in middle school through graduate school, and has written widely about college and career planning. More than 250 newspapers across the country carried her column, College and Career Corner, while she was vice president of communications at ACT, Inc. Her writing...See more

One of Rose Rennekamp's life goals is to help open doors of opportunity through education. She was the first in her family to earn a bachelor's degree, and she is grateful for the opportunities it gave her. Rose has counseled students in middle school through graduate school, and has written widely about college and career planning. More than 250 newspapers across the country carried her column, College and Career Corner, while she was vice president of communications at ACT, Inc. Her writing will never win literary awards. And it isn't lighthearted or entertaining. The goal of her writing is simple: to provide accurate information that is easy to understand. She writes college and career information at an eighth grade reading level. The advice she provides is practical and easy to implement. Rose has undergraduate and graduate degrees in education, counseling, and marketing. She has taught undergraduate and graduate courses at the University of Iowa. She a director of the Iowa College Access Network and a director of the Kirkwood Community College Foundation. See less