All posts by Natalie Russell

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Sending and receiving departmental mail

Faculty and staff, please review these helpful tips for sending and receiving departmental mail.

Please use the exact physical address where your office or department is located for all package and most paper mail deliveries—not Drake University’s main street address. This allows delivery services to take packages directly to your building.

View building addresses: drake.edu/directory/shippingaddresses/

Please let us know if your physical address has changed recently and does not match this website. We are happy to make updates, so your correct address is reflected.

Also, for future deliveries, update your personal and/or business information with all commercial mail carriers (USPS, FEDEX, UPS, AMAZON, DHL, etc.) and any local businesses using their independent courier services for deliveries.

These important steps with our combined efforts will effectively help to prevent misguided and misplaced packages and will ensure you get your packages as quickly as possible.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the Mail Operation Center at: campusmailoperations@drake.edu or 515-271-3162.

— Natalie Russell, Campus Mail Operations

For Students Archive

Receiving mail at your new campus address

For those wanting to receive mail at your new address on campus, please use the exact physical address where your residence is located—not Drake University’s main street address.

Please make sure your name and hall are listed in the address as well. Campus residence hall addresses are listed below:

Carpenter Hall – 2900 Forest Avenue, Des Moines, IA 50311

Crawford Hall – 1333 30th Street, Des Moines, IA 50311

Herriot Hall – 2842 Forest Ave, Des Moines, IA 50311

Stalnaker Hall – 1319 30th Street, Des Moines, IA 50311

Jewett Hall – 2700 Forest Ave, Des Moines, IA 50311

Morehouse Hall – 2803 University Ave, Des Moines, IA 50311

 Goodwin Kirk Hall – 1215 30th Street, Des Moines, IA 50311

Also, for future deliveries, please update your personal information with all commercial mail carriers (USPS, FEDEX, UPS, AMAZON, DHL, etc.) and any local businesses using their independent courier services for deliveries.

These important steps with our combined efforts will effectively help to prevent misguided and misplaced packages and will ensure you get your packages as quickly as possible.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the Mail Operation Center at: campusmailoperations@drake.edu or 515-271-3162.

— Natalie Russell, Drake Postal Operations

For Students Archive

Meal plans still available

It’s not too late to get a meal plan and/or Flex Dollars if you haven’t already. Find out more about your meal plan options: drake.sodexomyway.com/my-meal-plan/index

Students who wish to have a Commuter Meal Plan should log into my.drake.edu, click on the fork and knife icon (Housing & Meal Plans), and click “Apply Here.” Finally, click on “Commuter Fall 2021” application to begin the process of getting a commuter meal plan.

Once submitted to the Housing & Meal Plans portal for approval, students will receive an email to their drake.edu email account that will tell the next steps in completion of choosing a meal plan and final confirmation of this request.

If there are any questions, please contact housing@drake.edu.

— Casey Morgan, Dining Services

For Students Archive

Drake track and field tryouts

The Drake University track and field program will hold tryouts Sept. 29  from 3:30–4:45 p.m. for both men’s and women’s track and field. To participate:

  • Email Asha Gibson at asha.gibson@drake.edu with intent to tryout.
  • Attend an interest meeting Wednesday, Sept. 22, at 6 p.m. Location details will only be provided to individuals who submit email of intent to tryout.

— Asha Gibson-Smith, Athletics

For Faculty Archive, For Staff Archive

BUILD Fall 2021 learning and development schedule

Bulldogs United In Learning Drake (BUILD) is a learning and development series available to faculty and staff who wish to enhance their professional skills, improve their wellbeing, and expand their boundaries.

We encourage all employees to check out the BUILD Fall 2021 schedule that is now available on myDrake. To register for any class, send an email to linda.feiden@drake.edu.

September offerings:

Microsoft Teams Calling Level 100
Sept. 14 from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Microsoft Teams

Take a Mindfulness Break: Breathing, Dynamic Breathing, & Body Scan
Sept. 15 from 12–12:30 p.m.
Microsoft Teams

Take a Mindfulness Break: Gatha (Meditation Poems)
Sept. 30 from 12–12:30 p.m.
Microsoft Teams

Active Shooter Training
Sept. 21 from 12–1 p.m.
Olmsted Center, Conference Rooms 310–311

Overcoming Anxiety as We Return to Work
Sept. 23 from 2–3 p.m.
Microsoft Teams

It’s Not You, It’s the Situation! Tools for Identifying and Combating Pandemic Fatigue
Sept. 29 from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Microsoft Teams

— Linda Feiden, Human Resources

For Students Archive

Careers in social change virtual panel series

Have you ever thought about how you can make a difference in your career? Check out the Careers in Social Change Virtual Panel series taking place the second Tuesday of the month this Fall from 4–5 p.m. via Zoom. The panels include representatives from local businesses and organizations who will share about their career and educational paths and how they think they make a difference with their career.

The first panel will be Tuesday, Sept. 14, from 4–5 p.m. on the topic of Community Engaged Learning and Research, and will feature Director of Community Engaged Learning Renee Sedlacek Lee, and several faculty members who have conducted community research. You can register for this panel and all other panels on Handshake. Reach out to amanda.martin@drake.edu with questions. The series is sponsored by the Office of Community Engaged Learning and Professional and Career Development Services.

— Amanda Martin, Community Engaged Learning

Campus Announcements Archive

Study abroad in Spain Spring 2022

The Global Engagement office is excited to announce our new study abroad program in Seville, Spain for the Spring 2022 semester. Students with or without a background in Spanish are invited to apply to the program and join a Drake faculty member and group of students studying in Spain Jan. 18 to May 18, 2022. The program is open to Drake students who are Sophomores, Juniors, or Seniors. The first 10 students to commit to the Drake in Spain program will be given a $500 scholarship to attend the program.

You can read more and apply to the program by Sept. 15: drake-sa.terradotta.com/?go=Seville

Students who want to learn more about the program can attend one of the following sessions:

Additionally, students are invited to email studyabroad@drake.edu with questions, or to setup an appointment.

— Karen Williams, Education Abroad Advisor

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Changemaking 101: Engaging Students for Social Impact

Aligned with the University’s Big Ideas initiative, participants will be introduced to the concept of changemaking, explore the concept in practice, and discuss strategies for incorporating changemaking into course assignments and research projects.

This session will be held virtually via Microsoft Teams.

RSVP on Eventbrite. 

Facilitated by: Renee Sedlacek Lee, director of Community Engaged Learning, and Dr. Sara Johnston, Olson Fellow for Global Service-Learning, and Dr. Jimmy Senteza, director of the Rolland and Mary Nelson Institute for Diplomacy and International Affairs.

Guest presenter: Susan Sanning, associate dean and director of service and social innovation in the Center for Careers, Life and Service at Grinnell College.

This session is the first in a series offered this fall by the Office of Community Engaged Learning. For more information about upcoming faculty and staff development for engaging students in social impact visit: drake.edu/cel or contact renee.sedlacek@drake.edu.

— Renee Sedlacek Lee, Community Engaged Learning

Campus Announcements Archive

Constitutional Law Center announces 2021 Constitution Day speaker

The Drake University Constitutional Law Center is pleased to announce Dahlia Lithwick as the 2021 Constitution Day speaker. Lithwick will present “Covering the Courts: What Role Does the Supreme Court Press Play in Protecting the Constitution?” The lecture is scheduled for Sept. 17, 2021, at 3 p.m. and will be delivered virtually.  Register.

Dahlia Lithwick is a senior editor at Slate where she has written her “Supreme Court Dispatches” and “Jurisprudence” columns since 1999. Her work has also appeared in the New York Times, Harper’s, and the Washington Post, among other publications. She is host of “Amicus,” Slate‘s award-winning biweekly podcast about law and the Supreme Court. Lithwick earned her BA from Yale University and her JD from Stanford University. She is currently working on a new book, Lady Justice, for Penguin Press.

The Drake University Constitution Day Lecture is held annually to commemorate the signing of the Constitution on September 17, 1787, and to recognize all U.S. citizens.

Register for the event.

— Theresa Howard, Law School