Album, Nov. 1963 - Oct. 1972

1963

· Several articles on growing trend of vocational schools/colleges

1967

· Area XI Community Colleges courses start

· Enrollment reports for first and second academic years

· Reports on drafting courses, secretarial courses offered

· Open house tours

· Conversion of buildings for Area XI

· “Progress Report” on available courses, registration, tuition ($50 per quarter)

· Funding cuts

· Admissions requirements (no GED/diploma required to apply)

· Professor salary-matching policy among Area colleges

· Establishment of Area Nurse College in Knoxville, Iowa

· High school equivalency programs/testing offered

· Manpower training program

· Partnership with Boone Junior College

· Land acquisition in Ames for Area XI Community College

· Several articles on controversy over potential debt – anticipated shortfall of $2 to 3 million; request made for $4.5 million emergency appropriation bill from Iowa Legislature; subsequent criticism of excessive expense of vocational/technical programs, excessive focus on arts/science programming; Area colleges request state aid be given for current operating year (rather than succeeding year).

· State legislature meetings regarding junior colleges and area community colleges/vocational schools, regarding proposals to separate funding sources and administration.

· Appropriations bill passes State House for $4.5 million

· House Schools Committee approves bill to establish governor’s commission for oversight in vocational schools and colleges

· Public vote on ¾ mill levy for Area XI Community College funding

· Profiles of current students in training and vocational programs

· Profile of current students returning to school after many years in workforce

o Polaroids of building exterior, registration tables, unpacking equipment, students in drafting courses

1968

· Projected boom in junior college enrollments across country

· Expected tuition increase at Area XI Community College

· Area XI possibly overestimated future enrollment and received excess state aid

· Reports on insufficient funding, program cuts due to low funding

· Reports on graduating students – 82 students graduating in spring

· Fall quarter beginning

· Registration dates announced

· Budget proposal of $74.5 million for next 2 years

· Courses and training in “police science” proposed

· Profiles on students in secretarial science

· Crane on Area XI construction site mysteriously dynamited – police investigation ongoing

· Several articles regarding broader educational trends – more course in “minority studies,” student unrest across country, trends in educational programs and federal funding.

· Area XI receiving and rejecting bids for computer systems from IBM and Honeywell for computer training programs

· Spring graduation announcement

· Boone School District Superintendent Donald Seaton resigns

· Governor Hughes advocates for more regulation in Area Community Colleges and less emphasis on athletics in vocational/technical schools

· Name change from “Area XI Community College” to Des Moines Area Community College – reported November 20, 1968

· Map of proposed campus buildings – DMACC Ankeny campus projected to be “as large as Drake” by 1980

· Area III Funding scandal – Area III Community College misallocated state funding for athletic scholarships, leading to state investigation for various Area schools, resulting proposed oversight and changes to funding; criticism of excessive emphasis on athletics and too many out-of-state students receiving scholarships at community colleges

o Polaroids of “mobile information centers” – moving displays about vocational training programs at Area XI, visitors looking at displays

1969

· Adult education and vocational/technical course listings for Spring 1969

· DMACC leases Boone Junior College

· High level of enrollment in practical nursing courses

· Iowa Legislature proposal to examine community college attendance – concern about too many students taking liberal arts and sciences courses, too little focus on vocational/technical training

· Report on gradual move to Ankeny campus, construction bids to build Ankeny campus

· DMACC Funding: 1.035 million in funding for 1970, 1.3 million for 1971

· Student groups protesting poor road quality and traffic issues in Ankeny

· Ames developing vocational/technical training programs through DMACC

· Profile discussing broad growth of community colleges in Iowa

· Bank employees completing training in commercial law

· New library facility at Ankeny campus

· Open house at DMACC Ankeny and West Des Moines DMACC locations

1970

· Iowa Senate passes bill to create governor’s oversight committee

· New “nursery laboratory” for Child Care program

· Earth Day litter collection events

· DMACC system expands to include Carroll and Audubon county students

· DMACC allowing transfer of liberal arts and sciences credits to high schools and colleges

· Profile of vocational/technical students, discussing shifts in job market and growing need for training in employment

· New program (CHESS) providing financial and practical support to disabled and economically disadvantaged students at DMACC

· DMACC Board of Directors election

· Fall courses begin

· Overcrowding in vocational/technical training programs leads to DMACC turning away over 300 applicants

· Starting National Center for Volunteers in Education office at DMACC

· Student sit-in “rap session” making complaints to college administrators

· DMACC meeting job placement goals for early graduates

1971

· TV High School program in Iowa – broadcasting GED courses on television, enrollment in course provides GED testing materials (test book, study guides, GED application)

· Area schools estimated to be educating around 100,000 Iowans around January 1971

· James Farmer and Rev. James Groppi speaking on campus regarding hunger as civil rights issue

· Budget uncertainties lead to delay in staff pay raises

· Cost and tuition increases in Area schools

· Report saying DMACC has been effective in reducing joblessness in central Iowa

· Area schools criticized by State Board of Public Instruction about increasing tuition and potential excessive overlap in growing Area school coverage

· DMACC parking ordinances and changes in road construction to allow easier campus entry

· Enrollment reported at around 3,500 students

· High application rates cause delays in admissions, superintendent urges early application

· Local police forces begin requiring DMACC police training courses to receive promotions

· Superintendent advocates for Iowa Legislature to pass health care training bill

· Some Ames citizens request removal of ¾ mill levy for DMACC campus, levy approved anyway

· New media center and RANDTRIEVER system installed at Ankeny campus

· DMACC building dedication at Ankeny campus

· Students in building trades program complete construction of a home, sold for $34,000

· Tuition increases for 1971-72 academic year, increase by $90 to $240-330 for career education, increase by $30 to $360-390 for “college parallel” programs

· Profile of college graduates attending vocational/technical programs at DMACC

· Projected growing enrollment, DMACC 3rd largest college in Iowa, after University of Iowa and Iowa State University

· Board of Regents questions allowing transfer of community college credits to 4 year institutions

· Board of Regents discontinues ISU’s Technical Institute and denies proposal to integrate ISU program into DMACC, instead funding programs at Council Bluffs and Waterloo

1972

· Concern about growing costs of vocational/technical programs

· Projections on higher education to 1980 – largest area of growth expected to be vocational/technical training institutions

· Profile of women attending police science courses

· High rates of DMACC enrollment affecting Ankeny housing market and traffic

· Project Chess profile of disabled students at DMACC

· Busing project to connect public transit in Des Moines to Ankeny

· Car brought into automotive repairs course in reported to have been stripped for parts, leading to police investigation

· New vehicle emissions control training courses

· Iowa reported 7th in US in community college enrollment

· New coordinator of nursing program at DMACC

· 3 instructors at DMACC recognized as “Outstanding Educators of America”

· Concerns regarding limited state funding for community colleges and technical training programs

· Projected $48 million will be spent on vocational/area schools in 1972/73 school year

· Budget cuts end programs in child care and building maintenance training programs

· Expanded programs at Boone DMACC campus in secretarial and clerical training

· Largest graduating class in Area XI history – 935 total graduates for 1971/72 academic year

· Report on high level of engagement in DMACC student government

· State Board of Public Instruction considering changes to tuition and funding of area schools

· New courses in food service training

· New Des Moines Consortium for Higher Education, includes courses from DMACC, Drake and Grandview

· Undated report on mobile career exploration units

· Unattached clippings recognizing the 10th anniversary of DMACC