QUICK LINKS Today's News News releases ISU homepage NEWS RELEASE 10-21-02 Contacts: Georgia Hale, ISU College of Education, (515) 294-1410 Walter Pearson, Simpson College, (515) 961-1614 Mary Chapman, DMACC, (515) 246-6547 Kevin Brown, ISU News Service, (515) 294-8986 MEDIA ADVISORY: IOWA STATE, SIMPSON COLLEGE AND DMACC LAUNCH MINORITY TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAM AMES, Iowa -- Iowa State University, Simpson College, Indianola, and Des Moines Area Community College (DMACC), Ankeny, will announce a new partnership -- the George Washington Carver Teacher Education Program -- to promote a more diverse teacher population in central Iowa at 1 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 23, in the Des Moines Higher Education Collaborative, 400 Locust St. (Capital Square), Des Moines. The goal of the collaborative effort is to increase the number of people of color and members of other underrepresented groups who are certified teachers. The program is targeted to those employed full-time. It will begin next fall. -30- Ames, Iowa 50011, (515) 294-4111 Published by: University Relations, online@iastate.edu Copyright © 1995-2002, Iowa State University of Science and Technology. All rights reserved.