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Flags outside Building 4 setup by Active Minds are reminders of suicide prevention

Yellow flags for Suicide Prevention Month

October 14, 2016 at 10:30 am 0 comments

If you were around Building 4 at all in September, you probably saw the yellow flags display presented by DMACC club Active Minds. Each flag represented a student who had committed suicide. Each year there are around 1,100 students who commit suicide in the United States, according to the CenterRead More

2016 Study Abroad students at Stonehenge Photo Courtesy of Jennafer Uitermarkt

Spend a Semester Abroad in London

October 14, 2016 at 10:27 am 0 comments

The study abroad program offered to students here at DMACC is now taking applications to attend class 4,178 miles away from the DMACC campus at the University of London with Professor Lauren Rice. The DMACC study abroad program consists of a ten week semester, eight of which happen in London,Read More

Simon Estes performs at Fall DMACC Concert on Monday October 10th in the Building 6 Auditorium - Photo by Bailey Brooker

Simon Estes welcomed with standing ovation at DMACC

October 12, 2016 at 11:05 am 0 comments

Simon Estes performed at the DMACC Fall Concert with the Ankeny Concert Choir and the Chamber Ensemble on Monday Oct. 10 in the Building 6 auditorium. The DMACC Concert Choir and Chamber Ensemble, which had around 25 students in it, performed six songs. Jim Loos, DMACC Music Program Chair, conductedRead More

Speech Professor Judith Vogel retires

Speech Professor Judith Vogel retires

April 27, 2016 at 11:04 am 0 comments

Professor Judith Vogel of the DMACC speech communications department is retiring this year after 30+ years in teaching.  The family history of teaching was strong within her family with her mom teaching in a one room school house in Illinois. “I always wanted to be a teacher for two reasons,Read More

Earth week brings awareness

Earth week brings awareness

April 27, 2016 at 10:56 am 0 comments

Earth Day is a national event where many embrace the world’s natural resources by planting trees, recycling, cleaning up litter and becoming more aware of conservation methods that people can do everyday. Earth Week has been a DMACC tradition for many years and each year the Student Activities Center (SAC)Read More

The $100,000 Decision

The $100,000 Decision

April 20, 2016 at 11:51 am 0 comments

To my friends attending Iowa State University, University of Iowa, University of Northern Iowa, and any other accredited university: I hope you wake up for class today. I hope your failed alarm clock doesn’t cost your parents an extra ten grand in dropped classes by the end of the semester.Read More

Acclaimed writers Matt Bell, Robin Block, Kevin Prufer, and Ada Limon pose for a picture following their reading Monday April 4 at Beaverdale Books during the 2016 Celebration of the Literary Arts Festival.

2016 Celebration of the Literary Arts brings authors to DMACC

April 15, 2016 at 11:58 am 0 comments

Ada Limon, a poet and freelance writer, began writing as a child when she would write songs and sing them to her giant Labrador. She always loved poetry and began to seriously study it in her junior year of undergraduate college. She received her M.F.A. from New York University in 2001. LimonRead More

2016 Celebration of Literary Arts Festival features DMACC student writers

2016 Celebration of Literary Arts Festival features DMACC student writers

April 15, 2016 at 11:46 am 0 comments

On Monday April 4, winners of the district-wide creative writing contest were invited to Beaverdale Books to perform a public reading of their writing. In addition to reading their work for the packed bookstore, each winning student was awarded a scholarship or cash prize. They also all had the opportunityRead More