Voters approved two levies that will generate an estimated $112 million dollars between 2016 and 2025. Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2013, voters passed both a 20¼ Mill Levy and a Six Cent Levy that will bring remodels and additions to all DMACC campuses. These levies help keep tuition the second lowestRead More

By Alex Roth. The Prairie Trail Hy-Vee located at 2510 SW State Street, less than a four-minute drive from DMACC Ankeny campus, opened on Sept. 24, 2013. Store Director Kevin Hudachek shared his excitement about the opening of the new Hy-Vee. After seven months of building, the enormous 92,000 squareRead More

By Anna Duran This year’s annual Constitution Day highlighted the Second Amendment and was presented across all campuses by “Dr. Politics.” Honors Students primarily staffed DMACC’s the planning committee for the event this year. The main speaker at both events was Dr. Steffen W. Schmidt, “Dr. Politics,” professor of politicalRead More

By Ann Voight. DMACC, Drake University and Des Moines Public Schools (DMPS) are collaborating and have started the 3D Coalition. The program is designed to help identify, recruit, educate, and employ minorities who would make outstanding teachers.  This follows two previous efforts in recruiting minorities for the educational system, theRead More

By Nevin Cornwell. Six DMACC interns meet every morning at 9 a.m. in a conference room in Building 24. They go over the schedule for the day’s work, make plans for completing tasks, and then head off to start their workday. The situation seems normal for any business as bigRead More

By Alex Payne. DMACC settled a lawsuit with a student for almost $14,000 last May, in a case that drew attention from national sites like Fox news. Former DMACC student Jake Dagel, 21 of Sheldon, filed a lawsuit against DMACC for infringing on students’ Freedom of Speech. “Thousands of [American]Read More

By: Ann Voight. One commonly heard complaint from the recent high-school graduates just starting at DMACC is that they are not getting “The College Experience;” that expectation that college consists of crazy and fun times with newer friends, and parties galore—from themed parties, a personal favorite has been an AroundRead More

The Building 1 remodel that has scattered student services around campus is on schedule and will be completed this December. March of this year Building 1, which houses most of student services and the human resource department, was overhauled in a big way. Offices have been temporarily relocated throughout campus.Read More