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DACC LISTS HONOR STUDENTS
 
Danville Area Community College has released a list of its honor students for the Fall 2019 Semester.
 
A student must carry 12 or more credit hours and a straight A (4.0) average on a 4.0 scale to be included on the President’s List. To be included on the Honor’s List, a student must carry 12 or more credit hours and have a B+ (3.5) grade point average on a 4.0 scale.

Danville Area Community College
Fall 2019 President’s & Honor’s List

Employers are constantly lamenting the fact that “too many of the workers we have lack the common-sense skills they need to keep a job.”

Danville Area Community College just found a way to fund a program to teach common sense to job seekers and incumbent workers. The Illinois Community College Board awarded $225,000 for the “Bridge and Innovation” grant to DACC to fund the College’s Innovative Transitions Program.

Danville Area Community College is holding a DACC’s Got Talent contest. Acts were selected from auditions of current DACC students, alumni, faculty, and staff.

The acts selected from the auditions will perform at the DACC’s Got Talent Show on Friday, Nov. 22 at 7:30PM in the Bremer Theater. Cash prizes will be awarded for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place.

The DACC’s Got Talent Show is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC to attend.

For more information contact Jeanne Dunn at jdunn@dacc.edu or 217-443-8724.

Danville Area Community College’s Corporate Education department is offering a lunch and learn workshop on “Reasonable Suspicion with Concern about Legalized Marijuana/Cannabis in Illinois” as of January 1, 2020. The lunch and learn workshop will be held Tuesday, December 3, 2019 from 11AM-1:30PM at DACC in the Bremer Theater. Cost is $49 per person which includes lasagna from Jocko’s.

Danville Area Community College will host a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the transfer of ownership of the former U.S. Army Reserve Center from the federal government to the College at 11 am, Monday, November 25, 2019. A facility tour will follow. Parking is available in the College’s north Main Street parking lot, west of the Tractor Trailer training area.

DACC Women's Basketball Buffalo Wild Wings Night Fundraiser

Eat Wings Raise Funds! Danville Area Community College’s Women's Basketball Buffalo Wild Wings Night Fundraiser; Mon., Nov. 18, 2019; 5-8PM.

The DACC Women’s Basketball team is partnering with the Danville Buffalo Wild Wings on Mon., Nov. 18, from 5-8PM to help raise funds for their basketball program. Buffalo Wild Wings will donate 10% of all food sales (dine in or carry out) sold during this time for the women’s basketball program.

Danville Area Community College’s Literacy Program is holding a Family Reading Night on Thursday, November 21, 2019 from 6-8 p.m. in the DACC Student Union, Lincoln Hall. Special guest readers have been invited to read to the children. Confirmed "celebrities" are Danville Police Department Chief Yates and Cindy Peck dressed as Dorothy from, "The Wizard of Oz." 

Register today for this FREE Informational Meeting atDACC! Learn more about ICATT Apprenticeship opportunities through Danville AreaCommunity College! 

ICATT Apprenticeship Program
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November 13, 2019
10:00am - 12:00pm

The Danville Area Community College basketball programs will be holding a Pink Breast Cancer Game on Saturday, November 2, 2019. Proceeds will be donated to The American Cancer Society Making Strides against Breast Cancer.

The DACC women’s game is at 1 p.m. vs Kaskaskia College and the men’s game is at 3 p.m. vs Lakeland Community College. Both games will be played in the DACC Mary Miller Gymnasium.

For more information contact Hannah Cronk Ohl, Assistant Women’s Basketball Coach at hohl@dacc.edu 217-474-2024.

Danville Area Community College Cheerleaders are calling all area middle schools (grades 5-8) to join DACC Cheer for Spirit Day at DACC.

The DACC Cheerleaders' will hold a Middle School Stunt Clinic on Sunday, November 10, 2019 from 2PM-4PM. The clinic is for cheerleaders in 5th-8th grades.

Registration dates for the clinic are Monday, November 4, Wednesday, November 6, or Thursday, November 7 from 6PM-7PM at the DACC Mary Miller Gymnasium.