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

Four nationally-acclaimed authors arrived in Iowa last week to take part in DMACC’s 2016 Celebration of the Literary Arts Festival. The three-day festival, which started Monday, April 4 and finished Wednesday April 6, allowed students to meet and speak with professional published authors. The festival was organized by Marc Dickinson,Read More

Most of the time when you think of Lit classes for college you are thinking Shakespeare, Huckleberry Finn, or maybe the Iliad and the Odyssey. DMACC in recent years has started to expand such offerings with recent additions including science fiction, detective fiction and now graphic novels through LIT 210,Read More

CiWeek is produced by and hosted at DMACC West campus, consisting of 13 keynote sessions and other featured presentations. This event is centered on changing the perspective on thinking and finding innovative ways to achieve a goal. According to the website, “ciWeek provides students and Central Iowans an opportunity toRead More

There is not much better on a cold winter day than to walk into a warm house with the smell of chili wafting through the air. And at less than $15 for a huge pot of goodness that will fill your stomach and your soul, chili qualifies itself as notRead More

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

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

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