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News & Achievements Archive

Office of Student Financial Planning recognized by Iowa Association of Financial Aid Administrators

Drake’s Office of Student Financial Planning was honored by the Iowa Association of Financial Aid Administrators (IASFAA) with the John E. Moore Award. Named for IASFAA’s first president, the award recognizes a financial aid office that demonstrates “the highest standards of service and commitment to their students and community.”

Additionally, IASFAA recognized Chris Ditter, associate director of Student Financial Planing, with the Meritorious Service Award for her contributions to IASFAA’s Electronic Services Committee. The Meritorious Service Award recognizes a significant contribution to IASFAA and/or the financial aid profession. Selection is based upon leadership, work on an important project, or significant service to students, the association or the profession.

— Ryan Zantingh, Student Financial Planning

For Students Archive

Become an IMAC and work with international students

Want to welcome the world to Drake? Become an IMAC and serve as a mentor for incoming international students.

Every semester, new students come to Drake from all around the world. You can help shape their first impressions of Drake and the United States. The IMAC program by Drake Mosaic and Drake International is a great way to gain international experience in the United States and make lasting friendships with people from all over the world.
 
An IMAC is a student who is passionate about supporting their peers and passing along their knowledge to others. IMACs acts as a resource and a helpful connection for new international students starting at Drake. IMACs are generally paired with a small group of students for each orientation season (January and August).
 
Apply now. The deadline to apply is Nov. 5. Applicants will be asked to attend a 30-minute interview after the application deadline, and selections will be made by Thanksgiving week.
 
Contact the Drake Mosaic team (drakemosaic@gmail.com) or International Student and Scholar Services (isss@drake.edu) with any questions or for more information.
 

— Kendra Hossain-Morehead and Jorona Johnson, Global Engagement

For Faculty Archive, For Staff Archive

Call for presenters: Global Citizen Forum changemaker theme

The Global Citizen Forum planning committee invites your participation in enhancing our understanding and awareness of changemaking. Simply put, a changemaker is anyone who takes creative action to problem solve societal issues and works toward solutions for the good of all. Practicing changemaking is something that everyone can do.

On the afternoon of March 3, 2022, we will gather to celebrate the Every Bulldog a Changemaker initiative that is highlighted in The Ones campaign launched Oct. 28. This gathering will leverage a fast-paced visual storytelling format known as PechaKucha.

Our goals for this gathering are to:

  • Create awareness of the changemaking initiatives happening across campus
  • Demonstrate the interdisciplinarity of changemaking by highlighting initiatives with the private, public, and non-profit sectors (or across sectors)
  • Provide a forum for networking, community building, and the exchange of innovative ideas
  • Celebrate the good work of Drake faculty, staff and community partners
  • Inspire action and connection to the resources to make it happen!

Call for Presenters:
We seek proposals from a wide range of contexts that speak to the Global Citizen Forum theme Everyone a Changemaker: Perspectives across disciplines. Presenters may highlight current or past initiatives, feature course projects, personal scholarship, or community partnerships that are yielding changemmaking opportunities for students. Presentations that focus on challenges and opportunities in the private, public and non-profit sectors (or across sectors) are all welcome. Selected presenters will each receive $75 honorarium for participating and the chance at a $250 grand prize!

What is PechaKucha?
Pronounced pe-cha ku-cha, with equal stress on each of the four syllables, is a Japanese presentation format that incorporates up to 20 images that are shown for 20 seconds each, totaling a six-minute 40-second presentation. This visual storytelling format keeps presentations concise and the audience engaged. Presenters will receive a power-point template and need to submit their slide deck a week in advance of the gathering.

Abstracts are due December 10, 2021. To submit a proposal, visit drake.edu/globalcitizenforum. Presenters will be selected and notified by January 2022.

The Global Citizen Forum is a series of events focused on themes of global importance that takes place in March each year.  The Forum is part of Drake’s overall Engaged Citizen Experience (ECE).

— Renee Sedlacek Lee, Community Engaged Learning

Campus Announcements Archive

Finance Night: Finance as a Force for Good

The Drake Finance program presents Finance Night: Finance as a Force for Good Tuesday, Nov. 2, from 5–8 p.m. in the Olmsted Center, Parents Hall South. The keynote speaker for the event is Mr. David Reiling, chief executive officer, Sunrise Banks. The event is free and open to the public.

Mr. Reiling will join us virtually to discuss the role fintech plays in helping Sunrise Bank achieve its financial and social impact goals and how Sunrise has risen to become the world’s most socially responsible bank.

Mr. Reiling is an innovator in community development finance and financial inclusion. Under his leadership, Sunrise Banks became the first Minnesota bank certified as a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), a certified B-Corp, a legal Benefit Corporation, and a member of the Global Alliance for Banking on Values (GABV).

In addition to his work in the Twin Cities, he serves as chair of the GABV, a network of banks around the world using finance to deliver sustainable economic, social and environmental development.

Event Schedule*

5 p.m. – Guest check-in and dinner
6 p.m. – Keynote speaker David Reiling
7 p.m. – CFA Society of Iowa: CFA & ESG Investing
7:30 p.m. – Stock Trading Challenge Award Ceremony

— Inchul Suh, Associate Professor of Finance

HR Information Archive

Explore Broadlawns clinics and services

We are looking forward to Jan. 1, 2022, for a number of reasons, including the start of the new partnership with Broadlawns Medical Center. If you have not sought care from Broadlawns in the past, they support an impressively long list of specialty areas, clinics, and services. Below are just a few examples:

Virtual Care Visits: Broadlawns providers from primary care, mental health, and many specialty clinics are now offering virtual care services. Virtual care provides a safe and convenient way for you to access care through your existing provider or to establish care with a new health care provider. During your virtual care visit, Broadlawns providers can review your medical history, discuss any chronic diseases, medications, acute concerns, symptoms of illness, mental health, and prevention. Learn more about Broadlawns virtual care visits here.

Primary Care Clinic: Broadlawns Primary Care Clinic provides comprehensive individual and family health care to meet your needs. Broadlawns focuses on developing long-term relationships between patients and providers. Board-certified family medicine physicians, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners deliver acute, chronic, and preventive care services. The clinic provides a permanent medical home for family members of all ages to see the same doctor on a continuing basis. Learn more and meet Broadlawns primary care providers here.

Psychiatric Urgent Care: The Broadlawns Psychiatric Urgent Care accepts walk-in appointments for individuals 18 years of age or older who are experiencing a mental health crisis. The psychiatric Urgent Care is staffed with psychiatric nurse practitioners, licensed therapists, nursing staff, service coordinators, and psychiatric technicians. The Psychiatric Urgent Care is located on Broadlawns’ Main Campus, Center Building, First Floor, 1801 Hickman Road. As noted above, Broadlawns also offers psychiatric urgent care virtual visits. Learn more about Broadlawns psychiatric in-person and virtual visits here.

Maternity Care: Broadlawns offers an experienced and compassionate team to help you welcome your newest addition. Your OB/GYN or midwife also serve in the Broadlawns Birthing Center, ensuring continuity of care. Broadlawns new Birthing Center, completed in August 2020, offers single room maternity care where women can labor, deliver and recover—with their new baby—all in the same comfortable, private suite. Learn more and check out photos of the new Broadlawns Birthing Center here.

More information about the partnership with Broadlawns Medical Center, including special pricing for employees and dependents on Drake’s Health Plan, will be shared during the annual open enrollment period, which starts this coming Monday. Please monitor all open enrollment communications throughout the month of November.

— Maureen De Armond, Human Resources

For Faculty Archive, For Staff Archive

Deputy Provost 2:10: Two faculty development opportunities—compassion, contemplation, human rights, and pedagogy

Every Tuesday in OnCampus the Deputy Provost shares two articles with a read time of 10 minutes.

If you are interested and able to attend this terrific on-line conference sponsored by the Center for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education, I’ll happily use restricted/endowed faculty development accounts to pay your registration fee—in exchange for you offering some perspectives on the experience to a small group of faculty and staff later in the academic year.

Jampacked with amazing scholars and creative artists, the conference this year focuses on “how contemplative practices can support and sustain learning communities that resource and enhance resilience, connection, and healthy reemergence back into a more equitable and inclusive society.”  The organizers continue, “Acknowledging the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the inequities and disparities created by systemic oppression, we are now faced with an even greater urgency to collectively move the societal needle of engaging with one another and the environment from health-compromising to health-enhancing, from unsustainable to sustainable, from unjust to just. This movement will be facilitated by a more compassionate understanding of the loss and grief we have experienced as individuals and communities, illumination of the resilience and wisdom that we have drawn upon, and the application of the diverse learning, healing, and transformative strategies that have emerged.”

I have attended ACHME conferences in the past, and presented scholarship of teaching and learning—other faculty at Drake have also attended; we’ve all found our time in this scholarly and creative community to be incredibly generative. I hope some Drake faculty will consider taking this opportunity to attend. Please email me (renee.cramer@drake.edu) if you are interested.

In other conference news, The Iowa Network of Human Rights Academics’ annual Iowa Human Rights Research Conference will be held on Saturday, April 23, 2022, at Drake University Law School. Please see this call for proposals and this proposal submission form—students and faculty are invited to propose, present, and attend. The deadline for submission is Feb. 21, 2022, which gives faculty time to think through how this might be integrated into your early spring semester planning, and seek support for growing pedagogies that can contribute to the conference.

— Renée Cramer, Deputy Provost

For Faculty Archive, For Staff Archive

Deputy Provost 2:10: Books for Breakfast, Croissants and Curriculum, Funding and Engaging in Your Research

Every Tuesday in OnCampus the Deputy Provost shares two articles with a read time of 10 minutes.

This November and December, please join the Office of the Deputy Provost in Howard Hall, Room 210, for some f2f food and fellowship, in conversation with colleagues (yes, I am a dork, but gosh I love alliteration!)

Books for Breakfast returns on Nov. 23 and Nov. 30 from 8:30–9:30 a.m., reading Burnout:  The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle, and on Dec. 2 and Dec. 9, reading The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy.  Please email Nicki.Kimm@drake.edu to register—that way we’ll know how many books to order and how much breakfast to provide.

As faculty, chairs, and dean teams engage the process of curriculum revisioning, my office will also be hosting open work sessions in Howard Hall, Room 210, on Thursday, Oct. 28, from 1–2 p.m. and Wednesday, Nov. 3, from 2–3 p.m. We will also host one virtual session on Tuesday, Nov. 2, from 9–10 a.m. These are times to ask each other questions about your processes, work through the template together, and simply be in community while doing this work. Please email Nicki.Kimm@drake.edu to register and let us know which session you’ll attend (this will allow us to order enough croissants and get you the link if you’ll be remote on the Nov. 2).

On Friday, Nov. 5, join us for a conversation about research. The format here is less formal presentation and more a time for engagement. We’ll use the conversation (from 11:30–12:15 p.m.) to talk about our process in developing  research questions and methods, find points of synergy and potential collaboration, and just enjoy relaxing into scholarly conversation. Register by emailing Nicki.Kimm@drake.edu. Please provide any dietary needs and restrictions so we can order enough lunch for everyone.

With the one parenthetical exception, these events will all be in person in Howard Hall.  Following University guidelines, these events will be masked, with the ability to remove our masks to eat and drink. If we have more than 5 people sign up, we will move down the hall to a classroom in order to facilitate greater social distancing.

Finally, a teaser and save-the-date (with more information to come, in next week’s OnCampus): in collaboration with our Office of Sponsored Programs Administration and Research Compliance, I’ll be hosting a session on Funding Your Research on Friday, Nov. 19 from  1–3 p.m.

— Renée Cramer, Deputy Provost

HR Information Archive

Yoga, movie, mini golf: Participate in Stress Relief Week Nov. 1

Are you stressed out just thinking about managing your stress? You’re not alone. COVID-19 and other events surrounding 2020 and 2021 have contributed to our increased stress and anxiety.

Although we may not be able to eliminate life’s stressors, Drake’s DU Well program is inviting faculty and staff to join us for a few stress-relief activities the first week in November.

Start the week off attending a yoga flow or meditation class in the Bell Center on Nov. 1.  Then take a break and enjoy the following events, being held in the Olmsted Center:

Nov. 2 – Watch the movie Inside Out showing in Sussman Theater from 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

Nov. 3 – Play 9 holes of mini golf in Parent’s Hall North from 11 am.–1 p.m.

Nov. 4 – Attend the Benefits and Wellness Fair in Parent’s Hall South from 9–11 a.m.

Details on this and other DU Well programs can be found in the Employee Wellness section on myDrake.

— Linda Feiden, Human Resources

For Students Archive

Take a Community Engaged Learning course

As you are deciding which classes to take this spring, the Office of Community Engaged Learning encourages you consider a “Community Engaged Learning” (CEL) course. Community Engaged Learning courses integrate community experiences in a number of ways, including service-learning, field experiences, practicums, co-ops, internships, research projects, and more.

Benefits of taking a CEL course:

  • Better understand your local community
  • Apply what you are learning in the classroom to real-world settings
  • Enhance your “True Blue Skills” and gain experiences to be able to put on your resume and talk about in interviews
  • Build your networks and contacts in the community
  • Prepare you to be an active citizen during and after college

How to find CEL courses:

  • CEL courses can be major-specific or fulfill electives. Find a course that fits your schedule, major, or interests!
  • When searching MyDUSIS for classes, click “Community Engaged Learning” under “Attribute Type”

Learn more about Community Engaged Learning courses and hear from students and faculty who have participated at drake.edu/community/learningservice/celcourses/

The Office of Community Engaged Learning is a department within the Academic Excellence & Student Success unit.

— Amanda Martin, Community Engaged Learning