An important reminder: avoid scheduling campus events during the High Holidays observed by many members of our campus community who are Jewish. Please go to the Office of Equity and Inclusion website to import the dates of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur for this September and October directly into your Outlook calendar.

Faculty are required to provide students reasonable accommodations to honor their religious identities. It is especially important we honor this obligation as we communicate celebration, affirmation, and inclusion of all the diversity within the Drake community.

Students need to communicate the accommodations they require, so we can institutionally support clear communication between individual faculty and their students.

— Jen Harvey, Associate Provost, Campus Equity and Inclusion