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International Partnership Grant

Drake International is accepting applications for FY2020 International Partnership Grants. Activities eligible for funding are listed below and include a variety of opportunities such as, visiting a partner institution, hosting a scholar, exploring a site for a J-Term class, hosting a delegation, and more. The grant deadline is Wednesday, Dec. 12. Contact Julie Yankey at julie.yankey@drake.edu for additional details. Apply today.

Eligible International Partners:

  • Wiener Neustadt, Austria
  • Universidad de los Andes, Chile
  • Minzu University, China
  • Sichuan International Studies University, China
  • Southwest University of Political Science and Law, China
  • University of International Business and Economics, China
  • University of Clermont Auvergne, France*
  • University of Nantes, France*
  • Pravara Institute of Medical Sciences, India
  • Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan
  • Kosovo (agreement is with Ministry of Education)
  • Tec de Monterrey, Mexico
  • University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
  • Makerere University Business School, Uganda

Please note those denoted with (*) indicate partners with more restricted grant funding; contact Julie Yankey at julie.yankey@drake.edu for clarification.

Eligibility and Criteria for Funding:
Full-time faculty and staff are eligible to apply. Preference will be given to proposals that:

    • Further relevant portions of the University’s Continuous Improvement Plan and the unit’s global engagement indicators in specific and identifiable ways.
    • Broaden or deepen the faculty/staff member’s knowledge of a particular strategic international partner.
    • Advance Drake’s global engagement with our partners in new ways: such as international travel seminars, creating original activities with existing partners, global curriculum development, building upon previous activity, etc.
    • Explain how proposed activities will have specific teaching, research, and service outcomes for student learning, faculty and staff development, and Drake.
    • Are financially supported by the academic unit of the individual submitting the grant.

Julie Yankey, Drake International 

HR Information Archive

Cell Phone and Office Depot/OfficeMax Benefits

Did you know the average American checks their phone 80 times a day, with some checking it as much as 300 times per day? If you are one of the approximately 270 million U.S. cell phone users you may want to take advantage of the Drake employee discounts offered by Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint.

And if you are looking for supplies for your home office or holiday tech gifts, Drake employees can register their personal credit card with an Office Depot or OfficeMax retail store to receive a 5 or 10 percent discount off the regular retail price (promotions excluded).

View details on each discount.

Linda Feiden, Human Resources

HR Information Archive

Last chance to make benefit elections for 2019

Drake’s annual open enrollment period for the 2019 Plan Year ends this Friday, Nov. 30. You are not required to visit the Benefits Portal if you do not wish to make changes to your health, dental, or wellness participation.

If you wish to participate in Drake’s flexible spending account plans during 2019, you must make a new election in the Benefits Portal.

If you wish to disenroll or enroll in Drake’s health, dental, or wellness plans, you must make an election in the Benefits Portal.

Additionally, it is important to ensure your basic and voluntary life insurance beneficiary information is correct in the Benefits Portal.

All benefit elections must be made online in the Benefits Portal, accessible via myDrake’s Human Resources Section, no later than 11:59 p.m. Friday, Nov. 30, 2018. Should you have questions, please contact Diana at 515-271-1871 or Marlene at 515-271-1901.

Marlene Heuertz, Human Resources

Featured Events Archive

Meet My Religious Neighbor open house

Attend the inauguration of the interfaith chapel at Plymouth Congregational Church, located at 4126 Ingersoll Ave., on Saturday, Dec. 8, at 4 p.m. This Meet My Religious Neighbor event includes not only an open house but also an interfaith dialogue featuring local representatives of six different religious traditions. Visitors are also invited to stay for Plymouth’s 5:30 p.m. “casual service.”

Meet My Religious Neighbor is a monthly open-house series. Each open house allows the public the opportunity to tour a sacred space, learn how religion is practiced in it, and meet the congregation who worships there.

Monique Rodriguez, College of Arts and Sciences

Campus Announcements Archive

Need a new headshot?

University Communications and Marketing will hold a professional headshot session Dec. 7 from 12—2 p.m. at the Office of University Communications and Marketing. The sessions are free to all faculty and staff. High-resolution portraits are made available for download through SmugMug.

Jeremy Sievers, University Communications and Marketing

For Faculty Archive, For Staff Archive

Teach in China has been rebranded to Working Worldwide

Drake International is proud to announce that the Teach in China program has been rebranded to Working Worldwide. We have made this change to include our growing opportunities in Kosovo. The China program is still as strong as ever and still offers the same amazing opportunity to live and work abroad while teaching English. To learn more, visit our website or follow us on Instagram: @drakeworkingworldwide.

Please contact Stephanie Dana Ely at stephanie.dana@drake.edu with any questions.

Stephanie Dana Ely, Drake International

For Students Archive

Teach in China has been rebranded into Working Worldwide

Drake International is proud to announce that the Teach in China program has been rebranded to Working Worldwide. We have made this change to include our growing opportunities in Kosovo. The China program is still as strong as ever and still offers the same amazing opportunity to live and work abroad while teaching English.  To learn more, visit our website or follow us on Instagram: @drakeworkingworldwide.

To learn more about the opportunities through Working Worldwide, come to an info session in the Pomerantz Conference Room in Olmsted next Monday, Dec. 3, at 4:30 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 4, at 8 p.m., or Thursday, Dec. 5, at 4:30 p.m. Send any questions to workingworldwide@drake.edu.

Stephanie Dana Ely, Drake International