Drake Recreational Services wants you to fill out its Group X survey regarding the fall semester. In order for us to improve and keep moving forward, we need your feedback. Your answers are anonymous, unless you would like to be entered into a drawing for a special prize. The survey is open now until Wednesday, Nov. 8. We look forward to hearing from you. Thanks in advance for participating.
—Drake Wellness
Reminder: A workshop on contemplative practices in the classroom will be held this Friday, Nov. 10, from 1:30 to 3 p.m. in Cowles Library, Room 201. Please register if you would like to attend.
—Art Sanders, Associate Provost
The Office of Admissions will host its third “Best Practices for Recruitment Training” for faculty and staff on Thursday, Nov. 16, from 4 to 5 p.m. in Sussman Theater.
This training is appropriate for any faculty and staff member who engages with prospective and admitted students. When it comes to meeting with prospective and admitted students, it’s important to ensure that cohesive messaging and best practices are shared and followed across all units, departments, and offices on campus.
Following the training presentation, tickets to Hubbell Dining will be offered. The one-hour session will cover the following topics”
Drake is stronger as an institution when all of us use consistent messaging and best practices that ensure families leave our campus knowing what we have to offer, and what sets us apart.
For questions, please contact Anne Kremer at anne.kremer@drake.edu.
—Anne Kremer, Admission
Drake Dining is asking for your feedback. Complete a quick survey to help Drake Dining direct and enhance its services. Survey participants will have a chance to win $100 in flex dollars. All Drake students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to complete the survey. Three winners will be drawn at random to win the flex dollars. The survey is open through Nov. 11. Please complete the survey only once.
—Jennifer Bowersox, Drake Dining
The next in a series of meetings focused on creating inclusive learning environments will be Monday, Nov. 13, at 3:30 p.m. in the Olmsted Center, Drake Room. These meetings are an opportunity for anyone on campus to come and talk about the challenges, successes, and failures we have faced as we try to navigate the difficult issue of creating inclusive learning environments. For questions, contact Art Sanders at arthur.sanders@drake.edu.
Art Sanders, Associate Provost
Faculty and staff are invited to nominate candidates for this year’s Global Scholars/Practitioners-in-Residence program. Nominations are due to annique.kiel@drake.edu by Nov. 27. The Global Scholars/Practitioners program seeks talented individuals from academia or the professions who have outstanding international expertise to teach part-time while also serving as mentors to our students and resources to our faculty and the community. Global Scholars/Practitioners will engage with the campus and community through teaching, public lectures, and joint research projects while drawing upon their professional networks to help our faculty, students, and the institution as a whole develop new and fruitful external collaborations. For more information and nomination instructions, please visit the Global Scholars/Practitioners-in-Residence web page.
Denise Ganpat, Drake International
The University Book Store will hold a two-day sale Nov. 14 and 15, and a faculty and staff appreciation sale Nov. 20 and 21.
Two-day sale
Outerwear, sweatshirts, polo shirts, long sleeve tees, and more will be 25 percent off Tuesday and Wednesday, Nov. 14 and 15, from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. If you can’t make it in to the store, you can place an order online at www.drake.bkstr.com.
Faculty and staff appreciation sale
The University Book Store is extending a 30 percent discount to faculty and staff on Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 20 and 21, from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Join us for refreshments and get your holiday shopping done early. We will give away three $25 Follett gift cards.
Don’t forget, you can wear jeans with your Drake apparel every Friday!
Nate Reagen, President’s Office
Drake faculty are invited to hear how to connect with the Iowa Space Grant Consortium and NASA on Thursday, Nov. 9, at 10 a.m. in the Medbury Hall Honors Lounge. Former NASA Space Station Flight Director Tomas Gonzalez-Torres will talk about the ISGC’s support for research and opportunities to collaborate with NASA on research in STEM areas.
––Drinda Williams, Provost’s Office
The photography protocol and procedures section of the University Communications toolkit has been updated. Visit the toolkit for information on:
Justice Simpson, University Communications
Email phishing is one of the most prevalent attacks directed at Drake––over 100 million fraudulent emails are sent each year. That’s why ITS works to educate faculty, staff, and students about avoiding these attacks designed to convince us to give away our information.
October was National Cyber Security Awareness Month, and ITS shared tips all month on how to remain safe online. Until Nov. 17, ITS is holding its second annual Phishing Quiz, where faculty, staff, and students take a short quiz to learn how to identify these dangerous attacks. Thanks to some local businesses and campus partners, we’re giving away six great prize packages. Enter by going to drake.edu/its/phish. And, look for ITS staff at a table in the Olmsted breezeway on Thursday, Nov. 9, between 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. Spin the prize wheel and answer an IT security question for another chance to win.
In mid-November, we’ll be re-launching phishing simulation training for faculty and staff using a new tool called Knowbe4. This training creates emails that look like actual phishing attacks as an effective way to teach us how to identify and report them, all in a risk-free environment. It also has short videos that we will be using to help reinforce this training.
Our goal with these initiatives is to empower campus to keep personal and University data secure. Together we can be good stewards of the important information that has been entrusted to us.
—Peter Lundstedt, ITS
