All posts by Carla Herling

For Faculty Archive, For Staff Archive

Access changes coming to Drake computers to improve security 

In a September OnCampus article, I introduced an upcoming change designed to improve the security of Drake-owned computers. This change will remove always-on administrator access to help prevent web, email, and file-based attacks. When changes that require administrator access are needed, the Make Me Admin tool can be used to receive temporary administrator access for 30 minutes. If you prefer, you can also submit a request for ITS assistance with installing programs or making configuration changes. 

Beginning Nov. 19, and continuing gradually throughout that week, ITS will be removing the always-on administrator access.  

As a reminder, there are guides available in the IT service portal on how to use the Make Me Admin tool: 

How-to guide for Macs
How-to guide for Windows 

For questions about these changes, please contact Peter Lundstedt, director, information security & compliance, at peter.lundstedt@drake.edu.  

— Peter Lundstedt, ITS  

For Faculty Archive, For Staff Archive

Update: Review of LMS solution

Drake University’s Learning Management System (LMS) review task force has held six out of their proposed eight meetings during the fall semester and has hosted vendor demonstrations of Blackboard Learn Ultra and Instructure’s Canvas solutions.

The demonstrations were conducted to inform the task force about what a modern LMS can do in support of our institution. During the demonstrations and pilot experiences, data was collected based on previously defined criteria that the task force will review in the upcoming weeks. Additional information about institutional impact, including costs, student success rates, and technological integrations, will be considered while drafting our final recommendation.

For further information, please visit www.drake.edu/its/lmsreview and/or reach out to your area’s representative on the task force.

— Karly Good, ITS

For Faculty Archive, For Staff Archive

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning lunch Nov. 22

The next Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) lunch is scheduled for Friday, Nov. 22, at noon in TMR 133. These discussions are opportunities for those engaged in SoTL projects at any level—from those just thinking about starting one, to almost complete, or simply curious about SoTL—to share ideas, seek advice, or ask questions of colleagues engaged in this process. If you would like to order a lunch, please go to: https://sotl-lunch-learn-nov2019.eventbrite.com by Tuesday, Nov. 19, at 10 a.m.

— Art Sanders, Associate Provost

Campus Announcements Archive

Information sessions for Heritage and Holocaust travel seminar

Come to an information session to learn more about the Heritage and Holocaust travel seminar, scheduled for May 2020. You can discover the nuances of short-term travel seminars, get course details, learn about registering via Terradotta, and meet the faculty leaders at these information sessions.

Sessions are scheduled Monday, Nov. 11, at 3:30 p.m. and Tuesday, Nov. 12, at 9 p.m. Sessions are held in Meredith Hall, Room 125.

Contact dorothy.pisarski@drake.edu or jarad.bernstein@drake.edu for additional information.

— Dorothy Pisarski, Associate Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication

Campus Announcements Archive

Social justice dialogue

Join Community Action Board on Monday, Nov. 18, at 6 p.m. in upper Olmsted, CR 310–311, for a collaborative round table discussion on how to improve community engagement and how to be a good neighbor within the Drake Neighborhood. The session will also cover how to get involved with CAB during the school year.

— Laura Harris, AS’20

HR Information Archive

Open enrollment benefit meeting tomorrow

A review of Drake’s benefit plans and an overview of shared benefit costs will be provided by Drake Benefit Consultant Mark J. Becker & Associates on Wednesday, Nov. 13, at 1:30 p.m. in the Cowles Library, Room 201.  Human Resources and Wellmark representatives will also be present to answer individual questions.  Registration is not required.

— Marlene Heuertz, Human Resources

For Students Archive

Let ITS know about your eduroam experience

About two months ago, ITS made the switch from the DUStudent wireless network to eduroam. How’s eduroam working for you? Are you having any wireless network coverage issues? Connection problems in your room? Or your classroom? Let us know.

Report any issues connecting to eduroam by submitting a Wireless Network Issue report in our service portal. By letting us know where you’re having issues and what device you’re using, our ITS staff can work on adjusting access points and other tweaks to improve the network.

And don’t forget as you travel over winter break or J-Term that you may be able to take eduroam with you and connect wirelessly at your destination.

Learn more about the eduroam wireless network at www.drake.edu/its/eduroam.

— Carla Herling, ITS

Strategic Updates Archive

Get to know Drake’s institutional leadership

Friendly reminder that this organizational view of institutional leadership is a great way to get to know the leadership structure here at Drake. Instead of a boring text, you will find photos of each leader. This can always be found on the Office of the President page and is maintained by the President’s Office. Bonus feature: if you click on a person’s image, you will be directed to their corresponding web page to learn more.  It is a handy tool, especially if you are new to Drake!

— Nate Reagen, Chief of Staff, President’s Office

News & Achievements Archive

Matsukura receives the first NSF: MRI award for Drake University

Michi Matsukura, assistant professor of psychology, has received the National Research Foundation: Major Research Instrumentation (NSF: MRI) award—the first MRI award that Drake University has received in its history. The award allows Michi and her College of Business and Public Administration (CBPA) faculty collaborators to conduct a series of studies, using the eye-tracking system with capabilities of gaze-contingency programming (the paradigm that allows a computer display to change as a function of where an observer is looking) and pupillometry (the technique that measures changes in the diameter of the pupil as a function of cognitive processing). The CPBA research team is composed of Andrew Bryant (Marketing), Brian Vander Naald (Economics), Heath Henderson (Economics), Lori Solsma (Accounting), Alanah Mitchell (Information Systems), and Terri Vaughan (Actuarial Sciences).

Michi says, “I am extremely grateful to NSF for recognizing (1) this unique collaboration between visual cognition research and decision sciences as well as (2) our efforts to include and support a diverse range of students and faculty in the projects. Besides my own line of visual information-processing work, the system allows us to conduct a series of experiments to identify possible cognitive mechanisms that guide individuals’ ultimate behaviors, in the respective fields of the CBPA research collaborators. I am really excited to have this opportunity.”