Rashida Anderson-Abdullah, DMACC Ankeny sophomore, won the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship, worth up to $320,000. To be eligible for the scholarship, the foundation looks at academic ability, like outstanding performance and a GPA of 3.5 or higher, financial need, persistence, leadership, and service to others. Anderson-Abdullah wasRead More

Barbara Schmidt, who has been teaching speech at DMACC full time for 16 years and taught as an adjunct for the 9 years before that, will be retiring this year. She has been an active member of the Dmacc community and will be retiring this year. Schmidt says she willRead More

Food trucks have been trendy lately especially in Des Moines. They have been popping up in the area and there are now more than 20 in Des Moines. Des Moines recently approved a new pilot program that requires vendors to license their truck with the city. This program has fourRead More

“Candles in the Window” is a poem by DMACC professor Judith Hauser that is being performed as a choral piece on April 28 by the DMACC choir in the Building 6 auditorium at 7 p.m. This is Hauser’s first poem that is being performed as a choral piece and isRead More

After a yearlong hiatus, DMACC theatre returns with the production of “Fools.” Under new direction, with new actors, and in the new Black Box Theatre, Neil Simon’s comedy from the 80s is set in the 1890s. The new theatre instructor Carl Lindberg directs the show. He came to DMACC fromRead More

Reporters Emily Kuebler and Brian Hanigan interviewed students at DMACC who plan on transferring to a different university and asked what their plans are to do so.

Reporter Brian Hanigan talked to DMACC President Rob Denson on March 10 about the new collective bargaining law in Iowa.

The 2017 Literary Arts Festival is April 3rd-5th. Noted fiction and poetry writers will be coming to the six DMACC locations. Each writer has a different experience and brings a different perspective to the literary field. DMACC students can listen to these published writers speak about their works and learnRead More