Pick-up volleyball games are played every Thursday at noon in the back of the Bell center gym. This is for all students, faculty, and staff. It’s a great way to get some exercise, have fun, and meet new people. You can also subscribe to the mailing list to see who’s playing in advance.
Nate Reagen, Office of the President
The Office of Community Engaged Learning is offering mini-grants to help support service-learning, both locally and abroad. Projects can be through a class, student organization/group, or as an individual. Proposals must be in partnership with a community agency. In the past, funds have been used for supplies, printing costs, food, and more. Funding is awarded on an ongoing basis until depleted, so apply early! In addition, applications for the Olson Global Service-Learning Match Grant are being accepted. This grant is awarded to student global service-learning projects with faculty/staff support where funds or in-kind donations have been raised but where additional funds would be beneficial. View more information about any of these opportunities.
Amanda Martin, Community Engaged Learning & Service
Please join Human Resources in welcoming 10 new, full-time Drake employees for the month of October.
Taresa Lombard, Head Start Teacher Associate, Head Start
Macey Coppess, Family Engagement Specialist, Head Start
Kerra Beilman, Head Start Teacher Associate, Head Start
Eric Merten, Assistant Director of Admissions, Office of Admissions
Matthew (Matt) Lyons, Senior Associate AD for External Affairs, Athletics
Magen Renner, Administrative Assistant/O.T., CPHS
Geena Rasmussen, Development Data Specialist, University Advancement
Ryan Zantingh, Director of Financial Aid, Student Financial Planning
Joni Kinnan, Administrative Support Specialist, College of Arts & Sciences
Jeremy Ray, Classroom Support Technician, ITS
This semester the Leadership Concentration is working with Above + Beyond Cancer. Cancer affects people from all walks of life, including college age people. About 4% of all cancer diagnoses are in people aged 20 to 39, according to the American Cancer Society. The LEAD class, along with Above + Beyond Cancer, is working to promote awareness of cancer and the effect that it has on college students. They are doing this through the use of prayer flags. Prayer flags come from the Tibetan culture and are used to carry loved ones’ prayers with the wind. To help showcase this, LEAD will be hanging flags around campus on Nov. 26. If anyone wishes to create a flag, LEAD will be tabling in Helmick Commons and the Olmsted Breezeway Nov. 5 through Nov. 9 from 8 a.m.–12 p.m. If there are any questions, please contact Kathryn Gaito at kathryn.gaito@drake.edu.
Through a collaboration between the Public Safety, Title IX and Violence Prevention, and Equity and Inclusion departments, Human Resources is excited to offer a new series of programming focused on safety and inclusion called Bulldog Bites. The program will make our own campus experts accessible to faculty and staff to talk about how we can all make our community feel safe and inclusive. The next session is Wednesday, Nov. 14, in Turner Jazz Center.
Mark your calendar for the brown-bag lunch series, which includes five sessions throughout the year. Remaining sessions are:
Nov. 14: Title IX/Prevention part 1
Feb. 13: Equity and Inclusion part 2
March 13: Title IX/Prevention part 2
All programs will start at noon. Those who attend will enter a drawing for Hubbell Dining Hall and annual parking passes.
Mary Alice Hill, Human Resources
Over 20 years ago, a gift from Mary Belle Windsor established the Windsor Professorships in Science. One of the stipulations of the gift is that the individuals selected receive a supplemental stipend for five years. The first two Windsor Professors, Lon Larson in Pharmacy and Luz DeAlba in Mathematics were appointed in 2001. They were followed by Ronald Torry in Pharmacy Science and Maria Bohorquez in Chemistry in fall 2006, Keith Summerville in Environmental Science and Mark Vitha in Chemistry in fall 2011, and Gholam Mirafzal in Chemistry and Steve Scullen in Management and International Business in 2016.
One new Windsor Professor will be appointed effective in July 2019. The individual chosen will hold the title “Windsor Professor” and receive a salary supplement of $3,750 per year for five years.
The complete guidelines for nominating and selecting “Windsor Professors” may be obtained from Art Sander, arthur.sanders@drake.edu, or Drinda Williams, drinda.williams@drake.edu. Guidelines specify that: “Any tenured associate or full professor whose work is consistent with the definition of science used by the National Science Foundation is eligible.” NSF specifies that it supports education and research in engineering, mathematical, biological, physical, social, behavioral, and economic sciences. A fuller discussion of eligible areas can be found at http://www.nsf.gov/funding/index.jsp#areas .
The criteria for selection of Windsor Professors include:
Teaching effectiveness
Professional contribution through scholarly activity, leadership role, and consulting activities
Contributions to the mission of the department, college, and University.
Please consider the work of your colleagues and submit the name of any colleague whom you feel is deserving of the Windsor Professorship to the dean of their college. Self-nominations are acceptable.
The deadline for submitting names to deans is Dec. 10. Deans will forward nominations with their comments and evaluation electronically to Associate Provost Art Sanders by Dec. 17.
Art Sanders, Associate Provost for Faculty Success
DMARC’s Hunger Simulation is an immersive interactive experience for you to learn what it’s like to live with food insecurity. In the Hunger Simulation, you take on the identity of a real person experiencing food insecurity. Register for the simulation.
Hosted by Next Course Food recovery Network and Des Moines Area Religious Council (DMARC).
Julie Uram, AS’20
Students and Drake employees who are veterans or members of military families are invited to a meet and greet on Thursday, Nov. 8, from 8–8:45 a.m. The event will be held at the Pomerantz Stage area of the Olmsted Center.
This casual open house is a mechanism for individuals who have a military background to meet each other. There is no specific program.
Light refreshments and morning beverages will be available.
For more information, contact Nancy Geiger at 271-3095 or nancy.geiger@drake.edu.
Nancy Geiger, School Certifying Official
Please join me on Friday, Nov. 9, from 3:30–5:30 p.m. for a faculty and staff of color social in the Cowles Library Reading Room. This will be an opportunity for us to get to know each other, reconnect, and discuss creating faculty and staff affinity groups. Drinks and appetizers will be provided.
Erin Lain, Associate Provost for Campus Equity & Inclusion
The Gauntlet Has Been Thrown: Newspapers, Op-Eds, and American Responses to Antisemitism
Attend a talk on Thursday, Nov. 8, at 7 p.m. in Sussman Theater, Olmsted Center that addresses the landscape of the United States from the end of World War I to 1941, identifying the historical and social context in which Americans lived. It will also examine the role media played in what Americans knew about the world around them. It concentrates on three influential American leaders, Henry Ford, Father Charles Coughlin, and Charles Lindbergh, who were all involved with the America First Committee and who all spread antisemitic vitriol to millions of supporters. News articles, editorials, and letters to the editor reveal how a number of Americans in various communities in the Midwest and around the country reacted to this antisemitic rhetoric. The talk concludes with generalizations from this period and lessons for the post-war era.
Program Sponsors: Principal Center for Global Citizenship, Drake University School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines, Iowa Council for Holocaust Education, and Drake Hillel.
This program is made possible by the Campus Outreach Lecture Program of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, supported by the Leonard and Sophie Davis Fund.
Speaker notes: Eric Schmalz is the community manager for the History Unfolded project at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He oversees the review of newspaper submissions to the project website, assists participants with their questions, and helps educators effectively incorporate History Unfolded into various learning environments. Mr. Schmalz specializes in developing and deepening authentic human connections through his work.
Dorothy Pisarski, SJMC