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Colby Farr cfarr@foghornnews.com @colby_farr   Out with the old and in with the new. The English Building will be demolished in May after 50 years of service to make way for new and improved facilities. “It was time for those facilities to be upgraded,” said Claudia Jackson, executive director of strategic communication and government relations. The age of the building makes it harder for DMC to modernize it and provide “collaborative learning,” according to Jackson. “Some of those classrooms were so small, some of them were so old and it’s really hard to get the technology installed in some of…

To Matthew Busby, associate vice president of development at the DMC Foundation, the Employee Giving Campaign isn’t about raising money. It is about what he calls the “why.” Since as far back as 2005, the foundation has organized the campaign to offer a chance for faculty and staff to support the foundation’s mission of supporting students, not only in terms of tuition and textbooks, but also in their day-to-day struggles. In 2022, the foundation received 118 donations totaling $52,464. As of Oct. 6 of this year, the foundation had raised $58,218 from 123 donations, Busby said. That number is expected…

Dancers lined up backstage in their finest costumes as they prepared to walk on the dance floor in front of a crowded auditorium. Many wore colorful Jalisco dresses layered with exquisite ribbons while the men wore their classic charro ensembles topped with decorative sombreros. These dancers changed quickly from outfit to outfit several times throughout the evening so they could show off and perform the sets they practiced all year. Samuel Alcorta, instructor of Alcorta’s Folklórica, yelled to the dancers backstage at Richardson Performance Hall on April 8: “Tamaulipas, you’re up after this next set. Hurry up and change!” Inovidable…