All posts by Ashton Hockman

For Faculty Archive

Become involved in Phi Beta Kappa at Drake

Drake is among a small group of colleges and universities that offer a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the national honors society for arts and sciences. The society works to champion education, foster freedom of thought, and recognize academic excellence. Are you interested in helping Phi Beta Kappa at Drake thrive? Were you inducted to Phi Beta Kappa at your undergraduate institution? If you answered yes to either of these questions, please email your contact details and direct any questions to Maura Lyons at maura.lyons@drake.edu. We are looking for members to take part in the important task of reviewing eligible student candidates in the spring and be part of efforts to increase the chapter’s visibility and activities on campus.

Maura Lyons, Art & Design Department 

Featured Events Archive

Meet My Religious Neighbor open house

Please join us for our next Meet My Religious Neighbor open house on Sunday, Nov. 4, which is to be hosted by the Des Moines Zen Center at 6901 SW 14th Street in Des Moines. From 1—3 p.m., the Zen Center will hold an open house during which guests can tour their new facility, meet members of their community, and learn how they practice Zen Buddhism there. At 3 p.m., there will be a guest lecture by David Loy, a celebrated professor, writer, and Zen teacher in the Sanbo Zen tradition of Japanese Zen Buddhism.

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 Science

HR Information Archive

Holiday Trimmings challenge

Holiday Trimmings is a six-week program designed to encourage you to maintain or lose weight over the holiday season. If you have trouble dodging festive, yet fattening foods like pecan pie, sausage stuffing, and egg nog, this challenge is for you.

Beginning and ending weights will be recorded and throughout the challenge you will receive healthy holiday tips. Everyone who maintains or loses weight will be placed in a drawing for a chance to win prizes.

For more information, or to register to participate, please send an email to Linda Feiden at linda.feiden@drake.edu with the subject line “Holiday Trimmings.”  Deadline to register is Thursday, Nov. 15.

A packet of information will be sent to those who register. Read through the packet carefully and start the challenge on Monday, Nov. 19.

Let’s make this a happy and healthy holiday season!

Linda Feiden, Human Resources

For Faculty Archive, For Staff Archive

Upcoming Tech Tuesdays

Upcoming Tech Tuesdays: Learn about Blackboard, Effective Online Searches, Qualtrics, and Data
These 50-minute professional development sessions for faculty and staff are designed to provide you with resources to help you use technology more efficiently in your job (and possibly your life). All sessions will include time for Q&A. Register for Tech Tuesday sessions.

Assessing Learners in Blackboard
Tuesday, Nov. 6, at 10 a.m. or 1 p.m.

Delve into learning about a multitude of student creation tools for assessing learning. Instructors will learn how to manage assignments, tests, and other assessments.

Internet Search Best Practices
Tuesday, Nov. 13, at 1 p.m.

This session will help you hone your abilities to navigate massive amounts of information online, be a better searcher, find quality sources, and be more confident with online technology. Participants will receive 1 hour of BUILD credit for attending this session.

Making Qualtrics Work For You
Tuesday, Nov. 27, at 1 p.m.

This session will briefly introduce how to use Qualtrics and move on to investigate how you can use it in your work. Participants will receive 1 hour of BUILD credit for attending this session.

Data Driven Decision Making
Tuesday, Dec. 4, at 1 p.m.

Come learn about the ways that different offices are using information from the Drake University Business Intelligence Portal with staff from the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment.

Register for these sessions and learn about future sessions.

Carla Herling, ITS

HR Information Archive

BUILD for Managers: Bringing core values to life

Join this interactive session with Scott Raecker, Executive Director of the Robert D. and Billie Ray Center, and learn how to integrate Drake’s core values into your team’s work experiences. Scott will share tips on how to have intentional conversations about values and bring them to life in day-to-day interactions across campus. This session will be on Thursday, Nov. 1, from 9–10:30 a.m. in Olmsted Center, Room 310. Register online.

Debra Wiley, Human Resources

News & Achievements Archive

Chris Ditter awarded MASFAA state leadership award

Chris Ditter, Associate Director of Student Financial Planning, was recently awarded the State Leadership Award for Iowa at the annual conference of the Midwest Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (MASFAA) in Minneapolis, MN.

The State Leadership Award is presented annually to recognize the outstanding leadership of a member from each of the 9 states within MASFAA. The recipients must have made outstanding contributions to the financial aid profession at the state and regional levels over a sustained period of time, i.e., seven years or more. Leadership at the regional level is not the only criterion for this award, and the selection process will not be limited to current state elected leaders.

The individuals selected for this award must: exhibit high integrity and character; have shown creative leadership; have inspired and encouraged others to participate actively in professional development activities; have sustained active involvement in professional organizations, and have supported the goals and objectives of MASFAA.

Chris has been involved with the Iowa Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (IASFAA) for many years, having served as President for 2016-17, co-chairs the Electronic Services committee, and previously served as Treasurer and chaired the Exhibitor Relations committee. She also just finished serving on the MASFAA Board as the State Representative for Iowa this previous year.

Kristi Fuller, Student Financial Planning