Give someone the gift of a meal during a time of donation drought. Reception boxes are located outside the C-Store, inside the Student Life Center, and in the Student Inclusion, Involvement and Leadership Center. Anyone is welcome to donate. For questions, email hannah.cohen@drake.edu.
— Hannah Cohen, AS, JO
The University Bookstore is having a cyber sale now through Dec. 4. Save on various Drake gear. You can save even more by choosing in-store pickup. Visit drake.bkstr.com to learn more.
— Katie Wilz, University Bookstore
Campus building hours will be adjusted for the Thanksgiving Holiday. Most of campus will be closed starting Wednesday, Nov. 27, and will remain closed to the general public through the end of the week. Card access will still allow you to enter your authorized buildings, and most regular door schedules will resume on Sunday, Dec. 1.
Please contact Public Safety (515-271-2222) if you have a door access emergency during this time. Feel free to email studentservices@drake.edu if you have a general (non-emergent) card access question or concern.
Cowles Library open hours/after-hours are listed on their website.
— Sara Heijerman, Student Services Center
ITS is making updates to Banner. As a result, access to Banner 9, Banner/DUSIS INB, MyDUSIS, Workflow, ODBC, eTranscripts, Online Balloting, and DSAP will be completely unavailable between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 7. This upgrade is being made to apply security and functionality upgrades and patches.
We appreciate your patience while we perform this necessary work. If you continue to have any issues after the planned maintenance window, please contact the Support Center at 515-271-3001 or visit service.drake.edu/its to report your issue.
— Carla Herling, ITS
Single sign-on (SSO) for Blackboard is coming Dec. 19. After the change, you will sign in using the standard Drake login page rather than the current Blackboard login screen.
SSO is an authentication process that allows a user to access multiple applications with one set of credentials and a single login instance. Once a user logs in once, they gain access to different Drake applications, without the need to re-enter login credentials for each application.
Example: You log into myDrake first thing in the morning to check your email. While reading your email, you see that you need to check your Blackboard courses for upcoming assignments. Since you already logged into myDrake from checking your email, you can access Blackboard without being prompted to re-enter your Drake credentials.
Learn more about SSO and the additional systems Drake ITS is working on integrating with it by reading Single Sign On (SSO) and Drake applications (FAQ).
— Carla Herling, ITS
Robert Craig, professor of art, installed his sculpture Holdfast at the Blanden Art Museum on Nov. 6. This project began nearly two years ago when he was commissioned by the Blanden Charitable Foundation to create an outdoor sculpture for the Blanden Art Museum’s grounds in Fort Dodge, Iowa. The Blanden is the oldest art museum in Iowa and it is located in the historic Oak Hill District: a neighborhood founded by the early industrialists of Fort Dodge.
The sculpture is 12’ 6” tall and fabricated out of aluminum with a kinetic top element that turns in the wind. The abstract form and colors of Holdfast offer a range of associations to known things referring simultaneously to the many ingredients that were part of the formation of Fort Dodge, the current neighborhood culture, and the Blanden Art Museum as a mainstay. The colors and patterns complement the existing architectural and natural palette and were chosen to be as suggestive as the form itself.
Additionally, the museum acquired the preliminary studies for Holdfast (a scale model, drawing, and a color rendering) that will be used for educational purposes.
Through both municipal sponsorship and private commissions, Robert’s large-scale sculptures have been exhibited in museums, universities, and sculpture parks nationally. Commissions include the City of Cedar Falls and Grinnell College. His work is in public and private collections such as Spring House Farms, Maurertown, VA, HarborArts, Boston, MA, Central Iowa Shelter and Services, Des Moines, IA, the Village of Ponderosa, West Des Moines, the Hearst Center for the Arts, Cedar Falls, IA, Dordt College, and the Sioux City Public Art Collection. Additional sculptures can be seen at https://robertcraig1.com/home.html.
WHAT A CROCK—All Staff Council hosted a Crock Pot Cook Off. Over 90 campus members sampled eight delicious crock-pot dishes and votes were tallied. The dishes included: Carmel Apple Dump Cake; Sausage Dip; Moroccan Chicken; Grandpa Frankie’s Chicken & Noodles; Tex-Mex Chili; Randi’s Sweet & Spicy Chili; Pork and Tamale Soup; Chicken Jalapeno Corn Dip.
Each dish received votes with three top finishers:
3rd Place—Kodee Wood’s Sausage Dip
2nd Place —Sara Heijerman—Randi’s Sweet & Spicy Chili
1st Place —Tammy Eltayb—Tex-Mex Chili
Congratulations to all who participated and attended!
The next Book Club book “Resistance Women” is available at the front desk of Cowles Library. Plan to join for a casual book discussion on Jan. 15 at 4:45 p.m. at the Ingersoll Cheese Shop. Reach out to sara.heijerman@drake.edu for more information.
— Amelia Klatt, On behalf of All Staff Council
The All Staff Council Recognition committee would like to congratulate the following people for receiving a True Blue award:
Utilities FPM Team
James McNab
Alicia Chilton
Kelsey Faybik
Sydni Jennings
Amelia Klatt
A staff member who is called to be True Blue is someone who:
Does this sound like someone you know? Submit a nomination today! https://www.drake.edu/asc/recognition/calledtobetrueblue/.
— Amelia Klatt, On behalf of All Staff Council
Drake’s All Staff Council Recognition Committee recently celebrated SJMC staff with a Bulldog Applause. Read the spotlight below to learn more about the team.
Spotlight: SJMC Staff
How many staff members are in the department? 3
What is the primary function of the team? The SJMC educates strategic, global thinkers with diverse media and communication skills and a solid ethical underpinning who are prepared to respond to a rapidly changing media culture. Empowering voices since 1919, the School of Journalism and Mass Communication is celebrating its centennial this year.
Who has been with the team the longest? Mallory Quinn, Assistant to the Dean, has been with the team since February of 2016.
Who is the newest team member? Denise Ganpat, joined the SJMC team a year ago in October 2018. She has worked at Drake since September 2011.
What campus buildings do your team members “live” in? Our team “lives” in Meredith Hall – designed by internationally famous architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
What are some recent challenges and accomplishments of note that others in the University might not know about?Ray recently led efforts to remodel and re-engineer the TV studio, podcast rooms, radio station, and other resources in the lower level of Meredith Hall. Mallory works with faculty on an SJMC curriculum that allows students the flexibility to customize their education. Starting in Fall 2020 it will include an online undergraduate BA in Journalism and Mass Communication, targeted to students with associate’s degrees who want to complete their bachelor’s degrees. Denise works on a variety of SJMC tasks. A new aspect of her position is supporting faculty advisors and student leaders on Board of Student Communication activities.
Kieran Williams, visiting assistant professor of politics, was invited to speak at Harvard on Nov. 18 at a special event to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the 1989 revolution in Czechoslovakia. In September, he was a guest on the Cold War Conversations Podcast, as a witness to the August 1991 attempted coup in Moscow that set in motion the end of the Soviet Union. And, in May, he was cited by a regional court as an authority in a case of a disputed election in the Czech Republic.
