Susan J. Mitchell
District Chair Business Administration, Business Law Instructor

Building 8, Room 14
Ankeny Campus
Office: 515-964-6869
FAX: 515-965-7135
Email:sjmitchell@dmacc.edu
Instructor website

Biography

Education:

BA, Buena Vista University, Storm Lake, Iowa
J.D., Drake University Law School, Des Moines, Iowa

Instruction:

Business Law 101, Business Law 102

Additional Activities:  

I graduated from Buena Vista University with an undergraduate degree in education and taught school in Corning, Iowa, before deciding I wanted to try graduate school. Graduating from Drake Law School in December 1982, was the beginning of my next career focus. My law practice consisted of forming corporations and partnerships, preparing wills, filing bankruptcies, and general trial work.

I started teaching at DMACC in August 1989. I teach Business Law 101, Business Law 102 and I have taught other law related courses. I serve on the Curriculum Committee, Assessment Commission and the Academic Standards Committee here at Des Moines Area Community College.

Vada Grantham
Instructor

Building 8, Room 14
Ankeny Campus
Office: 515-964-6348
Email: vgrantham@dmacc.edu
Instructor website

Biography

Education:

BA, Business, Grand View college

Instruction:

Entrepreneurship

Additional Activities:

Vada and his wife Teresa started their market research firm in 1987 in the basement of their home with just two employees. During the initial years of business, they were in the food industry with a client list of General Mills, Keebler, Pillsbury, Nabisco, Kraft, and more. Their primary services were providing food samples to shoppers in the supermarkets and Sam’s Clubs. They sold the food division in 1999 with over 500 employees in eight Midwestern states.

Today, the company is a full-service research firm with 10 employees and provides consumer research to a variety of industries.

Vada said his professional aspiration is to take DMACC’s Small Business Entrepreneurship Program to unprecedented heights by creating market demands for programs that are developed through - innovative thinking, strategic processes, and continuously keeping a pulse on a technologically savvy and ever-changing world!

As a professor, his primary goal is to create a learning environment for his students that is; intellectually stimulating, engaging, and thought provoking.

Paula Hansen
Instructor
Room 170
Carroll Campus
Office phone: 712-792-8318
Home phone : 712-563-2410
FAX: 712-792-6358
Email:pwhansen@dmacc.edu
Instructor website

Biography

Education :

B.S. Business Education, University of South Dakota
M.A. Business Education, Western Michigan University

Instruction:

Personal Finance; Intro to Business; Intro to Marketing: Career Seeking Skills; Business and Financial Math; Professional Development; Supervisory Management

Additional Activities:  

National Business Education Association; Iowa Business Education Association; Iowa Distance Learning Association; Iowa Association of Career and Technical Education; Garst Scholarship Committee-Carroll Campus.

Russell E. Holmes
Instructor
Building 8 Room #1C
Ankeny Campus
Office: 515-964-6528
Home: 515-382-6054
FAX: 515-964-7135
Email: reholmes@dmacc.edu

Biography

Education :

J.D. / Drake Law School, Des Moines
M.S. / Iowa State University, Ames
B.A. / University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls
A.A. / North Iowa Area Community College, Mason City

Instruction:

Business Law; Introduction to Business

Additional Activities:  

Live on an acreage with my wife, Patty, and daughter, near Nevada, Iowa. Our daughter is busy with horses, playing the piano, clarinet, and many activities associated with 4-H, FFA.

Suzanne Markow
Instructor, Business Management and Information Technology
Building 8 Room 01-a
Ankeny Campus
Office: 515-964-6389
FAX: 515-965-7135
Email: skmarkow@dmacc.edu
Instructor website

Biography

Education :

Bachelor of Arts in Math and Computer Science- Central College; Pella, Iowa

Masters of Business Administration- Drake University; Des Moines, Iowa

Instruction:

Introduction to Business
Business Math
Systems Analysis
Cooperative Education/ Internship
Career Seeking Skills
Excel/ Spreadsheets
Office Management
Management of Information
Business Correspondence
Advanced Computer Applications

Additional Activities:  

Member of DMACC Strategic Planning/Labor Force Workgroup

Gary F. Stasko
Room 131
Boone Campus
Office: 515-433-5086
FAX: 515-433-5033
Email:gfstasko@dmacc.edu

Biography

Education :

B.S. Farm Operation, Iowa State University
Agricultural Economics, Iowa State University

Instruction:

Principles of Macroeconomics, Principles of Microeconomics, Personal Finance

Additional Activities:

Volunteer on Boone & Scenic Valley RR; Numismatist

Richard Trieff
Building 8 Room 22A
Office: 515-964-6211
FAX: (515)-965-7135
Email:rttrieff@dmacc.edu
Instructor website

Biography

Education :

BA – Simpson College, 1974
MS – Iowa State University, 1978

Instruction:

Principles of Economics, Personal Finance 

Additional Activities:  

CFP Designee – College for Financial Planning, 1992