Album, July 1974 to December 1976

1974

· DMACC student receives Garvey scholarship, other scholarship recipients

· Superintendent Lowery being paid in excess of state law, being compensated in part with subsidized home rental ($50 rent), auditor encourages DMACC to sell the house

· State auditor claims thousands of dollars of DMACC vocational course equipment has been mislaid or stolen

· DMACC International Awareness Week in May

· Governor Ray gives commencement address at DMACC, 475 graduates of 1974 class

· Editorial about new DMACC Urban campus; DMACC lobbies Ray to push for more Urban Campus funding

· Byron Hamilton named Dean of DMACC Boone

· 5 candidates for 3 Board of Directors positions; election results – one incumbent wins, one loses

· DMACC mails test for high school completion, adult basic education programs to every household in district

· Superintendent Lowery’s “fringe benefits” of $500 for civic/professional organizations are cut

· Report about successes of DMACC Elderly Nutritional Program (58 senior citizens attending)

· Profile of Project CHESS and its director Charles Sim

· Report on career education programs, especially focused on Carroll

· Agbusiness graduates earn an average of $700 per month

· New college transfer credits offered by DMACC

· DMACC sponsors Mexico City tour led by anthropology professor Lloyd Miller

· Superintendent Lowery named to executive board of AACJC

· DMACC budget for 1975 increases by 25% to around $10 million

· DMACC Boone offering outdoor recreation courses, business career workshops

· First woman graduates from job machinist program

· Iowa State Board of Public Instruction sets regulations regarding women’s athletics of area schools, bar women from contact sports

· ISU and Iowa running out of student housing, DMACC has sufficient housing for current students

· Profile of Ecumenical Campus Ministry at DMACC

· Report on high level of growth in area schools, total 1973 enrollment of over 240,000 Iowans

· Grandview and DMACC offer courses free to elderly Iowans

· Boone teacher resigns in protest of administrative incompetence/lack of hiring oversight

· Auditor reports that educational cost per student is lowest at DMACC and other area schools

· Profile of Urban campus instructors as Urban campus temporary location opens in May 1974

· Iowa Atty. Asks court to order DMACC to sell Superintendent Lowery’s house

· DMACC Ankeny begins offering training courses for probation officers

· Free workshops to train citizens in water quality testing and pollution monitoring

· 6% increase in area school enrollment across Iowa

· Proposed vocational training programs for Carroll high school students in the following year

1975

· DMACC student activities committee hosts public talk on conflict between Teamsters and United Farm Workers regarding union negotiations and migrant laborers

· Planned 96-hour architectural drafting marathon to raise funds for program

· DMACC Boone basketball team performing very well 1975 season

· Dental assistant students giving presentations to elementary students on dental hygiene; dental auxiliary clinics open and start taking patients

· Scottish Rite donates $1000 to DMACC scholarship

· Board approves a $33,000 yearly salary for Superintendent Lowery, asks for 5 year extension of mill levy, mill levy extension approved, Board of Directors approves a 10% salary increase for instructors

· Editorial expressing concern about low voter turnout in district elections

· Profile of a married couple of high school drop-outs who attended DMACC and later received 4 year degrees

· Carroll’s vocational-technical training equipment arriving

· Reassessment of collective bargaining arrangements for DMACC faculty and staff

· Sales clerk training for DMACC students at J.C. Penney, as part of a Department of Social Services program which provided transportation and child care to participants

· Guthrie Center High School students earning DMACC credits during school

· Articles discussing availability of Basic Educational Opportunity Grants through federal financial assistance, availability of AP courses and dual college credit courses

· Enrollment at area schools up 1974-75

· Profile of Electrical Trades training and courses

· New programs in plant maintenance, transportation/trucking, and legal assistant course offerings; adult education course in “thoroughbred handicapping”

· Update to 1974 story about DMACC audit: judge denies Iowa Atty. Request to order DMACC to sell Lowery’s house

· Board of Regents opposes policy to establish separate state residency rules for area schools

· Profile on food service training program’s gourmet dinners

· 637 students graduate from DMACC in May 1975

· Biographies of Area school Board of Director candidates

· DMACC plans to build 2 baseball diamonds, in collaboration with Little League

· Report on mobile career exploration units visiting Iowa high schools

· “Flying saucer expert” speaks at DMACC

· Legislator requests rebate for free courses offered to senior citizens by Grandview & DMACC

· 45% of Boone DMACC students receiving financial aid

· Hot Air Ballooning courses offered at Boone campus; farming short courses offered at Knoxville

· DMACC officials request funding for intercollegiate athletics at area schools, also request $400,000 for expanded dental training courses

· Report on educational trend towards great vocational/technical training and distance education/mail courses

· 10th anniversary profile of DMACC

· Editorial criticizing ineffective and inconsistent nature of Randtriever library system, Randtriever system reported repaired in April 1975

· $196.2 million omnibus education bill up for debate in state legislature

· Profile of mothers as DMACC students

· Program to allow cross-transfer of college credits between Grandview, Drake, and DMACC

· Profile of female horticulture students working at Water Works Park

· Iowa Manufacturers Association urges stronger oversight on community colleges and stricter requirements to focus on vocational training (over liberal arts courses)

· DMACC students asks Ankeny police to focus resources on reducing speed and reckless driving around Ankeny campus

· ISEA proposes a freeze on administrative salaries until community colleges meet goals of diversifying faculty in terms of race and gender

· Ankeny Centennial events planning, including searching for Centennial First Lady

· 135 students graduate from Boone DMACC

· 14 DMACC instructors complain about unfair contract negotiations

· 650 graduates from DMACC Ankeny in Spring 1975

· 110 Carroll students enroll at DMACC

1976

· DMACC offers TV course on the history of President John Adams and his family, as part of broader trend of public television distance courses

· Proposal for DMACC to buy North High School and convert the space into a permanent Urban Campus

· Real estate development companies presents proposals to build student housing in Boone and Ankeny – DMACC not allowed by state law to build their own dorms/housing, instead plan to circumvent this policy by selling their land to developers to build student housing

· Rusty Rhodes, member of Committee to Investigate Political Assassinations, speaks at DMACC

· International Management Council conference hosted at Ankeny campus

· State Board of Public Instruction OK’s DMACC’S request to sell land to private developers for student housing; private development slowed by insufficient sewer capacity for additional housing around campus

· Board considers 27% increase in requested budget for 1976-77 academic year

· Lowery announces Urban will stay in temporary location for another year

· Board member asks Boone to end intercollegiate programs in sports for Boone, citing possibility of lawsuits due to uneven distribution of athletics funding between area colleges

· DMACC students receiving scholarships

· Mobile career exploration units visit Guthrie Center and Nevada

· Iowa Legislature drops rule requiring community colleges to enforce no-smoking and no-drinking rules on campuses

· DMACC enrollment up 18.7% from previous spring semester

· DMACC planning to launch $100,000 fund drive by introducing local taxes(?), local business owners resist what they consider “double taxation”

· Polk County Taxpayers Associations bring case to State Appeals Board, asking them to cut DMACC budget; DMACC admits to overspending 1973-74 and 1974-75 budgets

· Profile of Boone student using welding training to create metal sculptures

· Iowa Senate Committee approves plan to have State Board of Public Instruction have oversight to area college superintendent salaries

· Ford Motor Company donates more automotive equipment for career education program

· Enrollment continuing to grow into 13,420 in 1975-76

· Profile of Carroll building trades students now entering the workforce

· DMACC students working as interns at Des Moines businesses

· Public hearing on DMACC’s budget scheduled for May 10, 1976

· DMACC developing program to offer extension courses in Knoxville, allowing students in area to earn associate’s degree without going to DMACC campus

· Conflict over potential plan to buy North for DMACC Urban – North student parents and Des Moines Public School District Superintendent resist potential purchase

· Newspaper photos of 1976 Homecoming events

· Profile of DMACC food services program and new trends in restaurant kitchens

· DMACC teacher salary negotiations – reach agreement of base instructor salary of $9449

· Graduation announcements and course listings

· DMACC Urban campus students petition Board of Directors to provide a new permanent building for their courses, protest the planned construction of a new administrative building in Ankeny before Urban Campus has a building

· State Appeals Board rejects DMACC’s plan to use tax levy to pay costs of IPERS

· DMACC terminates 17 instructor contracts due to lack of federal funding

· VA investigates veteran student claims of inadequate instruction and equipment in job training programs and 11 students sue for $42,000; VA investigation finds claims to be unfounded

· State Appeals Board cuts DMACC budget by $399,556

· Practical Nursing program receives full accreditation

· Profile of female bricklayer who completed from pre-apprenticeship program

· 10th anniversary event announcements

· Slight increase in college enrollment in Iowa across the board in 1975-1976

· Bicentennial celebration photos and event announcement

· DMACC facilities record Vietnamese language news/advice program for refugees, broadcast by WHO, report that this is likely first program of this type in country

· Establishes Moonlight Education program to provide career education and advancement programs in evening

· 7 Career Exploration instructors traveling around United States to train other instructors in this program

· DMACC hosts program to provide preschool education to disabled children

· New public art installation at Ankeny

· Report on trend of women receiving job training and going back to school for new careers

· Profile of welfare recipients using state supports to complete job training and find new work

· Ankeny plans to spend $99,000 on regional signage to help people navigate to DMACC campuses

· Courses in tenant rights and negotiation with landlords hosted at DMACC

· In honor of 10th anniversary, DMACC releases 75 balloons with gift certificates for DMACC merchandise

· DMACC offers public tax clinic to local residents