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‘UNI at DMACC’ partnership to bring bachelor’s program to Urban Campus

Rob Denson (left) and Mark Nook (right) announced a new partnership for a streamlined pathway to a four-year degree.

The University of Northern Iowa and Des Moines Area Community College today announced “UNI at DMACC,”…
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Women in cheesemaking? ISU now has a scholarship for that

A new scholarship at Iowa State University aims to help women launch successful careers in the dairy industry. Savencia Cheese USA has established the Dorothy Demeter – Savencia Cheese USA Undergraduate Scholarship, honoring the first …

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Fall enrollment drops 3.5% at Iowa’s public universities

Iowa’s three public universities enrolled 2,732 fewer students in the Fall 2019 semester than during Fall 2018, a 3.5% decrease from a year ago. However, total enrollment is still 3.3% above total enrollment from 10 …

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Iowa ties for No. 1 spot for highest average composite ACT scores

Iowa has tied with South Dakota for the highest average composite scores in the country on the ACT assessment test. Iowa and South Dakota had an average composite score of 21.6 out of a possible …

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University of Iowa picks dean of students after two years, two failed searches

Cedar Rapids Gazette: Nearly two years after losing its dean of students – and upon learning last week that its vice president of student life is leaving at the end of the semester – the University …

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Polk County awards $200,000 grant for DMACC Urban Campus renovation

The DMACC Foundation has been awarded a $200,000 grant from the Polk County Community Development Grant Program to support the foundation’s “Building Community” fundraising campaign to modernize and expand the DMACC Urban Campus. The $24 …

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Grand View University adds three members to board of trustees

Grand View University announced that three Central Iowa business leaders have joined the university’s board of trustees. New on the board are Don Coffin, president and CEO of Bankers Trust; David Stark, president and CEO …

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DMACC lands federal aid to help veterans and families

Des Moines Area Community College has received $87,860 in federal aid to support tuition grants to veterans as part of a U.S. Department of Transportation effort to improve safety in the commercial driving field. “This grant …

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UI business dean, interim diversity head departing

Sarah Gardial, dean of the University of Iowa’s Tippie College of Business since 2012, will leave that position to become business dean at a private Christian college in Nashville, Tenn., UI officials announced. 

As dean, …

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A federal case for STEM

Jeff Weld, Iowa’s guru on all things STEM, spent a year in Washington, D.C. working on a project that in many ways gave him a chance to spread the word on successful approaches in Iowa …