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DMACC students with your kids on campus

DMACC students with your kids on campus

February 24, 2016 at 11:01 am 0 comments

DMACC students watching your kids while you go to college?  Yes that is available and right here on campus.  The DMACC Child Development Center on the Ankeny campus is based in Building 9 and operates from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. during the fall and spring semesters with shortened hoursRead More

Mythbuster to talk about innovation at West Campus

Mythbuster to talk about innovation at West Campus

February 24, 2016 at 10:53 am 0 comments

DMACC will celebrate innovation at its West Des Moines campus through during ciWeek (Celebrate! Innovation week!), Feb. 29 to March 4.   Over the last 6 years, ciWeek has brought in presenters from Steve Wozniak of Apple to the last astronaut to walk on the moon to actors from StarRead More

Caucus underwhelms first-timer

Caucus underwhelms first-timer

February 24, 2016 at 10:46 am 0 comments

The usual cacophony of hungry teenagers talking over each other, trying to squeeze a full day’s events into their 30-minute lunch break was gone. Replacing it was the calm rumble of politically-inclined, aging middle-class voters. Scanning the room, I looked for familiar faces, but I only recognized a few people.Read More

Diversity Week brings former skinhead and Academy Award winner to speak at DMACC

Diversity Week brings former skinhead and Academy Award winner to speak at DMACC

February 24, 2016 at 10:40 am 0 comments

For the first time in DMACC history, the Diversity Commission will be hosting a weeklong event to celebrate and recognize the diversity that resides on our campuses. Under the leadership of Chairwoman Joanne Dudgeon, the commission has developed a simple and attainable mission: “Advocate for diversity awareness and ensure theRead More

The Fear of Failure

February 17, 2016 at 12:02 pm 0 comments

How many of us can admit we live with some type of fear, be it completely irrational or somewhat justifiable? Most people know exactly what they fear in this life and can spot it from a mile away. Typically, fears are tangible objects or ideas. Take the phobia of heightsRead More

Diversity week brings former skinhead and Academy Award winner to campus

February 17, 2016 at 11:12 am 0 comments

For the first time in DMACC history, the Diversity Commission will be hosting a weeklong event to celebrate and recognize the diversity that resides on our campuses. Under the leadership of Chairwoman Joanne Dudgeon, the commission has developed a simple and attainable mission: “Advocate for diversity awareness and ensure theRead More

Illustration by Kate Allender

Ziggy has returned to Mars; RIP Major Tom

February 5, 2016 at 10:56 am 0 comments

I don’t usually have problems with celebrity deaths. I’ll admit that I did cry when I heard Robin Williams died in 2014, but out of all the recent celebrity deaths, the death of David Bowie on Jan. 10 probably was the hardest celebrity death for me to deal with inRead More

A rendering of the new Building 5 student center.Image courtesy DMACC Physical Plant

Building 5 opens its doors this fall

February 5, 2016 at 10:52 am 0 comments

The Building 5 Student Center is expected to open by Fall Semester 2016, and the attached recreation center is expected to be operational by January 2017, DMACC officials have announced. Ned Miller, DMACC Executive Director of the Physical Plant, said, “This is the biggest project we have done in aRead More