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Drake lands summer pre-law institute

Drake University Law School will host the 2016 Council on Legal Education Opportunity Inc. Pre-Law Summer Institute June 5 to July 2. Drake most recently hosted the event in 2011. The council works to diversify the …

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Robert Half reviews 2015’s hot trends

Many companies showed strong growth this year, but they also struggled to hire, especially in technology fields, Robert Half Technology reported.   The employment company surveyed chief information officers and information technology executives throughout the…
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Waukee business program to get new school

  
A Waukee Community School District program that is embedding high school students with professional firms throughout Greater Des Moines in fields such as architecture, software design, marketing and health care will get a new…
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Drake selects former UNI administrator as provost

Sue Mattison

Drake University has selected a Wisconsin university administrator with deep Iowa ties to be its next provost. Sue Mattison, dean of the College of Professional Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay since …

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Report: Iowa continues to lead nation in graduation rates

Iowa continues to lead the nation in high school graduation rates, according to finalized data released by the U.S. Department of Education. Data shows that 90.5 percent of Iowa’s seniors graduated from high school in the 2013-14 …

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New ‘report cards’ detail Iowa schools’ performance

Nearly half of Des Moines public schools received below-acceptable grades in a new set of report cards released today by the Iowa Department of Education. The Iowa School Report Card is a new Web-based system to evaluate …

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Dice expects strong tech industry hiring in 2016

According to Dice’s latest hiring survey, finding highly skilled tech talent will be a top hiring priority for companies in 2016. A record 78 percent of hiring managers anticipate more hiring in the first half …

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Cultivating front-line workers

Health care workers aren’t just doctors and nurses. They’re also the housekeepers who clean the rooms and the patient techs who wheel people around the hospital, not to mention the employees working behind the scenes …

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Ankeny schools: expand four schools rather than add another

Ankeny school officials are recommending expansion of four existing elementary buildings to enable the fast-growing district to delay building an 11th elementary school. District officials presented the long-range facility plan to the school board Monday …

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Survey: Keep asking job seekers about convictions

Greater Des Moines business readers are divided on whether questions about job seekers’ criminal records should be removed from initial application forms, according to the results of an unscientific survey in the Business Record Daily…