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Vatterott names new campus director

Vatterott College has named Mary “Joy” Norton-Jasper as its new campus director in Des Moines. Jasper has worked at Vatterott for 2 1/2 years and was most recently the campus’s career services director.

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Iowa community colleges to be recognized

The Iowa Association of Community Colleges Trustees will hold its IACCT Student Legislative Seminar today at 3 p.m. at Embassy Suites, 101 E. Locust St. Gov. Terry Branstad will speak to community college trustees, presidents, …

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Drake announces Let’s DU Lunch schedule

Drake University and the Greater Des Moines Partnership announced the spring Let’s DU Lunch speaker series schedule yesterday, to be held at the Des Moines Club in the Ruan Building, 666 Grand Ave.

The series …

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State unemployment rate drops to 6.3 percent

Iowa’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate dropped to 6.3 percent in December from 6.6 percent in November, the largest monthly decrease in the rate for the year, Iowa Workforce Development reported. The state’s jobless rate stood …

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Supreme Court rules in anti-retaliation case

The U.S. Supreme Court bolstered the ability of employees to sue for retaliation, ruling in favor of a man who was fired after his fiancée complained about alleged sex discrimination at the same company, Bloomberg …

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Reich, former secretary of labor, will speak at Drake

Robert Reich, who served as secretary of labor in the Clinton administration and now teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, will speak at 6 p.m. Feb. 2 in Drake University’s Sheslow Auditorium in Old …

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Celebrate small wins


It is time to say goodbye to a difficult decade that began with the tragedy of 9/11 and the rise in terrorism and closed with the Great Recession and polarized political perspectives. In order to …

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A Closer Look: Rona Berinobis


Where are you from?

I’m originally from Honolulu, Hawaii; I was born there and moved to Iowa in the early ’60s. My father is Hawaiian, and my mother is Irish, from Waterloo. So when they …

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Principal donates $2.5 million to Drake campaign

Principal Financial Group Inc. will donate $2.5 million over the next five years to Drake University as part of the school’s distinctlyDrake $200 million fund-raising campaign.

Drake will change the name of its Center for …

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Drake exhibit opens today

A Drake University exhibit titled “Young Adult Identity and Consumption in Urban China” opens today at the university’s Cowles Library, 2507 University Ave.

The exhibit is designed to teach about Chinese young adults as consumers …