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News & Achievements Archive

CBPA grad awarded AMA scholarship

Each year, the Iowa Chapter of the American Marketing Association, along with Meredith Corporation as a sponsor, recognizes outstanding leadership, high academic achievement, and active participation in the marketing profession by awarding a $500 scholarship to an AMA Iowa Collegiate student member. This year, Rebecca Crepeau, recent Drake graduate of the College of Business and Public Administration, received the scholarship. She currently serves as the Vice President for the Drake AMA Chapter.

— Dianna Gray, College of Business and Public Administration

News & Achievements Archive

Christensen and Rosburg honored with distinguished Iowa science awards

Debora Christensen receiving the 2018 Distinguished Iowa Science Teaching Award.
Thomas Rosburg receiving the 2018 Distinguished Iowa Scientist Award.

Debora Christensen, associate professor of biology, and Thomas Rosburg, professor of biology, recently received distinguished science awards from the Iowa Academy of Science. Christensen was presented with the Distinguished Iowa Science Teaching Award and Rosburg with the Distinguished Iowa Scientist Award during the academy’s annual meeting at Buena Vista University in Storm Lake, Iowa, on April 20. The awards honor and promote educators for their innovative teaching practices and exceptional scientific research at the post-secondary level.

Christensen has been teaching at Drake since 2008. She has taught 10 different courses. Her main courses include the physiology portion of the general biology course and the mammalian physiology course and lab. Known for her collaborative instruction in the classroom and laboratory, Christensen utilizes diverse strategies to engage students, including video clips, in-class demonstrations, computerized virtual experiments, small group discussions on case studies, and prerecorded lectures. Christensen is also a mentor to approximately 10 research students each semester. Her students have also served as coauthors on research papers and posters at professional meetings.

Rosburg has been teaching at Drake since 1996. He has taught 14 different courses primarily in the subjects of ecology, botany, biological research and statistics, natural history and nature photography. He is known among his peers for his scholarly activity, which includes authoring over 125 scientific papers and reports, contributing to four field guides, and presenting hundreds of lectures and conference papers/posters, many with Drake undergraduates. Among his students, he is known for enhancing learning opportunities through hands-on trips to natural areas and by serving as a mentor to those conducting research.

HR Information Archive

Community Supported Agriculture

Members of the Drake community support a local farm by purchasing a share and, in return, they bring shares of their week’s produce to campus. This year, Drake is working with The Homestead.

This is a great way to eat healthy and seasonally while supporting sustainable agriculture and the local economy.

Shares will be delivered to Meredith Hall on Thursdays from 3 to 5 p.m. beginning in late May or early June. You may order a full share which is delivered weekly for 20 weeks, or a half share, which is delivered every two weeks. They also offer double shares. View program details and costs.

Amanda Kanehl will be coordinating the produce pick-up. Amanda is a junior environmental science student at Drake. She is a horticulturalist and worked at The Homestead for two seasons, so she is familiar with the produce as well as the staff and farm manager.

You may order shares through Amanda at amanda.kanehl@drake.edu. You may also order online or fill out a brochure and mail it in. Credit cards and checks are accepted. You may pay the full amount up front or $100 a month until the share is paid.

Please contact Amanda with additional questions. Questions may also be directed to Amahia Mallea at amahia.mallea@drake.edu.

— Linda Feiden, Human Resources

HR Information Archive

HealthyU BINGO

Last call to participate in this summer’s HealthyU BINGO. The deadline to register is tomorrow, May 31. During the month of June, fill in a blank BINGO card or two with healthy activities from a provided list and then bring your completed BINGO card(s) to the Olmsted Center, Rooms 310 and 311, on Tuesday, July 3, or Wednesday, July 11, at 12 p.m. and join us for a fun game of HealthyU BINGO for prizes. You are welcome to participate one or both days. To receive a HealthyU BINGO packet, email Linda Feiden at linda.feiden@drake.edu.

— Linda Feiden, Human Resources

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Woolverton and Competitive Edge orders and deliveries

The Woolverton Manufacturing e-store is your source to purchase Drake customized paper goods such as letterhead, envelopes, and business cards. The Competitive Edge e-Store is your source to purchase Drake branded giveaways and promotional merchandise such as pens, pencils, and pennants. Both Competitive Edge and Woolverton Manufacturing have agreed that orders placed through the e-stores on or before June 15 will be delivered and invoiced by June 30, unless a representative of one of those companies notifies the purchaser otherwise. Orders placed after June 15 will be delivered and invoiced after June 30. For questions, contact Sara Sommerlot at 271-2169 or at sara.sommerlot@drake.edu.

— Sara Sommerlot, University Communications & Marketing

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All Staff Council Special Interest Committee reminder

Last year, All Staff Council added a new committee, the Special Interest Committee. This committee explores initiatives, questions, and/or concerns presented to All Staff Council through research, planning, and collaboration with appropriate offices on campus.

Over the year, the committee reviewed recommendations that policy documents be added to the HR website. The committee has also been working on a staff mentoring program that will launch in August, 2018. At that time, if you are interested in becoming a mentor or mentee, you can fill out an application. Mentees will be matched with a fellow staff member and will build their mentoring relationship throughout the year. Stay tuned for the application and more information.

As a reminder, this committee seeks your suggestions, questions, or concerns. All suggestions are kept confidential.

The Special Interest Committee chair is Carla Herling, and the chair-elect is Andy Verlengia. Additional members of the committee are Shelly Biondi, Pam Pepper, Jennifer Reitano, Niki Smith, and Patrick Williams. If you have anything to reach out to the committee regarding, please direct those inquiries to chair Carla Herling at carla.herling@drake.edu or 515-271-2356.

— Niki Smith, University Communications & Marketing

 

Campus Announcements Archive

Bulldog Girls Basketball Camps

Drake Women’s Basketball Head Coach Jennie Baranczyk and the women’s basketball staff and players would like to invite girls in grades K-12 to participate in one of our exciting 2018 basketball camps. Find the dates of camp and more information on our camp website bulldogbasketball.com. To receive a Drake faculty/staff discount, contact Sarah Hoffman at sarah.hoffman@drake.edu.

— Nicci Hays Fort, Athletics

Campus Announcements Archive

Community Engaged Learning Impact Report

Community Engagement at Drake has been nationally and locally recognized by the Carnegie Foundation’s Community Engagement Classification, the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, and the United Way of Central Iowa Volunteer Award. Read more about the impact of our programs in our updated Community Engaged Learning Impact Report. Highlights from 2017–2018 include:

Tracking Community Engaged Learning:

  • Refining standards and identification process for tagging courses with a Community Engaged Learning (CEL) attribute.
  • Identifying where CEL happens in each of the colleges; 33 percent of academic programs integrate at least one CEL experience in the curriculum. An audit with CPBA revealed 62 percent of all CBPA undergraduates will take a CEL course before they graduate.

Building a signature service year program:
Eight students successfully completed 300 hours of service as a result of participating in the Engaged Citizen Corps program, which resulted in $66,663 monetary value contributed to communities.

Faculty development:
Laura Kieran, assistant professor of special education, and Sally Haack, associate professor of pharmacy practice, have been accepted for national publication and presentation. Their manuscript, PRELOAD: A Rubric to Evaluate Course Syllabi for Quality Indicators of Community Engagement and Service-Learning Components, will be published in the Journal of Community Engagement & Higher Education and presented at the International Association for Research on Community Engagement & Service-Learning this summer.

Co-Curricular Service:
Launching an inaugural Paul Morrison Service Week that resulted in over 400 hours of community service.

— Renee Sedlacek, Community Engaged Learning