ANKENY, Iowa—The DMACC Foundation hosted an Open House and Ribbon Cutting on Friday, Sept. 9, to celebrate the new DMACC Criminal Justice Training Center on the College’s Ankeny Campus. The 1,500-square-foot training center provides a realistic setting, complete with traditional home furnishings and top-notch equipment, that allows for enhanced learning and training opportunities for DMACC Criminal Justice students, as well as criminal justice professionals from throughout Iowa and beyond. A total of 82 donors contributed more than $300,000 to help fund construction of the new Center.
DMACC President Rob Denson says the College’s new Criminal Justice Training Center “is truly a DMACC facility.” It was designed by the DMACC Architectural Technologies Program with the assistance of Program Chair and Professor Mike Gatzke, and constructed by students in the DMACC Building Trades Program under the direction of Program Chair and Professor Ned Rasmussen. Students in the DMACC Horticulture program also helped landscape the exterior.
The Center has already seen significant use by students and criminal justice agencies for training purposes. There is no other facility like it in Central Iowa, and very few comparable facilities exist on college campuses across the nation.
To learn more about the DMACC Criminal Justice Program and the new DMACC Criminal Justice Training Center, visit https://criminaljustice.dmacc.edu.
(contributed press release and photo courtesy DMACC)
About the Author
