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Online classes cost students more for the convenience

Online classes cost students more for the convenience

April 4, 2014 at 10:38 am 0 comments

If you’ve ever taken an online class or web-blended class, you may have noticed an extra charge to your tuition cost. For residents and nonresidents, the tuition costs are different. For residents it’s $136.00 per credit hour and for nonresidents it’s $272.00 per credit hour. But for any extra feesRead More

Poetry writer to visit campus

Poetry writer to visit campus

April 4, 2014 at 10:34 am 0 comments

Evie Shockley will be visiting the DMACC Ankeny campus to read her poetry at the Celebration of Literary Arts event April 9th. Evie started writing at an earlier age. “ I was one of those kids who was reading and writing since before I can remember, which means before IRead More

Award winning author to visit DMACC

Award winning author to visit DMACC

April 4, 2014 at 10:29 am 0 comments

DMACC students will get a treat in coming weeks when the Celebration of Literary Arts kicks off in early April. Among those scheduled to speak is award winning author Alan Heathcock. However, he did not always begin as a writer. “I started probably my senior year, I started kind ofRead More

ALEKS assessment helps better place math students

ALEKS assessment helps better place math students

April 4, 2014 at 10:27 am 0 comments

ALEKS math placement assessment will be coming as a requirement for the first time this fall in 2014. No worries! There are exemptions and positive outcomes: To be exempt, students must have a C- or higher in a transfer equivalent math course within the previous 18 months from the dateRead More

Potholes along DMACC Boulevard to be fixed soon

Potholes along DMACC Boulevard to be fixed soon

March 14, 2014 at 11:29 am 0 comments

With winter almost over, drivers around the Ankeny DMACC campus are starting to notice more problems with the roads. Namely, pot holes. Ned Miller, Director of the DMACC Physical Plant, said that next week they may start fixing the roads. “We hope to start next week if the weather cooperates.Read More

Last man to step foot on the moon wraps up CI week

Last man to step foot on the moon wraps up CI week

March 14, 2014 at 11:23 am 0 comments

For the final talk of CI Week, students got to hear from Captain Eugene Cernan; the last man to set foot upon the moon. Cernan spoke to students about his trip on the moon and the journey that he took to get to that point. He also made a fewRead More

Grant Imahara spoke to a packed house at the DMACC West Campus on Thursday, March 6.

Mythbuster shares the fun of science

March 12, 2014 at 11:23 am 0 comments

There was organized chaos Thursday morning at West Campus as students found their way into spillover rooms when one of The Discovery Channel’s Mythbusters, Grant Imahara, visited the campus to talk to students during CI Week about how the popular show accidentally made science and engineering cool. Mythbusters takes myths,Read More

BLACK HISTORY MONTH:  “You Got to be a Dreamer”

BLACK HISTORY MONTH: “You Got to be a Dreamer”

March 12, 2014 at 10:49 am 0 comments

By Martina Gutierrez ~ The Struggle that makes you strong ~ Adolphus “Dolph” Pulliam, born March 14, 1946 in Mississippi, overcame segregation and family tragedy on his way to becoming a standout athlete. He spoke at DMACC for Black History Month on February 27. Pulliam is a former basketball playerRead More