Lori Suddick has been selected as the new president and chief executive officer of DMACC. Suddick will be DMACC’s fifth president and will officially start on June 15.  She will be succeeding Rob Denson, who retired in December after 22 years as president, and Liang Chee Wee, who is theRead More

2026 marks the 41st anniversary of the French Chef Exchange at the Iowa Culinary Institute (ICI).  French Professor Maura Nelson helped create the exchange in 1986, after she had been teaching at DMACC for just two weeks.  The French Chef Exchange began when Saint Etienne was made a “sister city”Read More

As March approaches, DMACC’s women’s basketball team has faced some major setbacks during what started as a historic season, but is still poised to finish strong. Their record is currently 18-6 and 10-6 in their conference. The Bears began their season with the program’s best start, going 13-0. However, aRead More

DMACC’s men’s basketball program has seen its most successful seasons ever throughout the 2020s, including its first NJCAA Division II national championship in 2021. The Bears came just shy of the championship in 2022 with a loss in the Final Four, but have only made it as far as theRead More

Nikki Erlick, the author of “The Measure,” spoke to a full audience at the DMACC Ankeny campus on Tuesday, November 4, in Building 5 at 10 a.m. “The Measure” is the 2025 selection for the DMACC Library’s “One Book, One College, One Community.” Erlick spoke about how she was inspiredRead More

DMACC students, faculty, and staff recently had the chance to hear from two very different but equally important and inspiring speakers. On Oct. 30, Former U.S. Ambassador to Cambodia, Kenneth Quinn, and a panel of Kenyan professionals who now call the U.S. and Iowa home. Quinn served more than 30Read More

The search for the next DMACC president will be postponed after two of the three finalist candidates withdrew their names from consideration for the job, according to a DMACC press release. Candidates were scheduled to come to the DMACC campus in mid-October for interviews. With the future president uncertain, DMACCRead More

Students with a keen eye may have noticed that the Campus View looks a little bit different this Fall. This is due to the ownership of the property changing hands over the summer. The property is now owned by Haverkamp Properties, which also owns Prairie Point. Since changing hands, theRead More