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Best of Des Moines 2015

It’s time again for our annual Best of Des Moines awards. As in past years, our readers voted via an online open-ended survey for the businesses, people and events that they thought were the “Best …

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Event Oct. 19: DMACC STEM Festival for young students

Des Moines Area Community College will host its second-annual free STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) Festival from 6 to 8 p.m. Oct. 19 at the FFA Enrichment Center Atrium on the Ankeny campus. The …

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Event Oct. 6 : New View Young Professionals breakfast

Ready for your annual job performance review? On Tuesday, Oct. 6, New View Young Professionals will host Bryan Martin, a human resources talent development manager from Merit Resources Inc., speaking on how to handle salary …

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Guest opinion: Push yourself beyond the familiar

We never stop learning. Rather, we never should stop learning.

That’s the gist of a recently-released study by Oxford Economics, which found that the No. 1 concern we face as employees is obsolescence. In short,…
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Report confirms persistent wage gap for women

  The gender-based wage gap is hurting women and families in every state, according to an analysis released Friday by the National Partnership for Women & Families. On average, women who are employed full time,…
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Iowa Communications Alliance adds tech scholarship at DMACC

The Iowa Communications Alliance has added a Next-Gen Technology Scholarship program at Des Moines Area Community College to develop expert workers in the telecommunications technology field. The scholarship covers three-fourths of the tuition for technical …

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Lt. Gov. Reynolds praises growth in number of apprentices

Developers have said for months that it is tough to get skilled workers for major projects in the Des Moines area. Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds and union officials offered a bit of good news this …

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UI eyes social work, sports, leadership classes at AIB campus

 
Regents seek review of AIB campus, consider other DM sites for center The Iowa Board of Regents will ask a consultant to study whether the AIB College of Business campus, set to be donated…
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Regents seek review of AIB campus, consider other DM sites for center

     The Iowa Board of Regents will ask a consultant to study whether the AIB College of Business campus, set to be donated to the University of Iowa in July 2016, is the best…
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ISU, UNI faculty groups back UI ‘no confidence’ votes

Iowa Press Citizen: Members of faculty groups at the University of Northern Iowa and Iowa State University have issued statements of support for the “no confidence” votes taken last week against the Iowa Board of Regents …