All posts by Shannon Hilscher

For Faculty Archive

Blackboard Learn Ultra monthly learning sessions

Ultra Hours: Get Help with Blackboard Learn Ultra
What a great turnout for Ultra Hours in August. More than 30 faculty members joined us in-person or online for personalized assistance. Popular topics included: Blackboard Learn Ultra refreshers and introductions, Gradebook setup, new features for Tests, copying materials, course design, managing content, and video discussions.

Mark your Calendars, Save your Spot
Bring your computer and questions about course design for hands-on practice with the instructional design team from Drake Online and Continuing Education.

The first Friday of each month (Oct. 7, Nov. 4, Dec. 2)

Help Us Help You
Please sign up to indicate when you plan to come and what types of questions you have. Your feedback helps us adequately staff and prepare to assist you.

Reminders

— Shannon Hilscher, Drake Online and Continuing Education

For Faculty Archive

Grant opportunity: Open educational resources

Cowles Library is excited to announce an opportunity for full-time Drake faculty interested in learning more about using open educational resources (OER) in their courses. These open resources replace costly textbooks, and are beneficial to students in your courses in so many ways.  The Drake Faculty Open Education Grant Program is offering $500 stipends to participants who complete the program, which comprises a workshop, self-paced learning modules, and peer discussion.

This program will be limited to eight participants in Fall 2022, and participants must complete all required components to receive their stipend. We expect the time commitment for the program to be 10–12 hours, which includes the virtual kickoff workshop on Friday, Oct. 7, 3:30–5 p.m.

Apply now: Drake Faculty Open Education Grant Program Application

Deadline: Applications are due by Friday, Sept. 23. Individuals will be notified of the status of their application by Monday, Oct. 3.  Grants will be awarded based on representation of a wide range of disciplines and the alignment of application responses to the proposed content of this program.

— Teri Koch, Cowles Library Dean’s Office

For Faculty Archive, For Staff Archive

Deputy Provost 2:10: Writing Center opens, a note from Professor Megan Brown

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

The Writing Center (formerly known as the writing workshop) opened Monday, Sept. 12.

The Writing Center’s trained peer tutors advise and assist students at any stage of the writing process:

· Understanding instructions/prompts

· Generating ideas and ways to develop ideas

· Outlining and organizing

· Writing, expanding, revising, and/or copyediting a draft

The Writing Center is a free service for all Drake students, including graduate students and those in professional programs.

How to sign up: Go to library.drake.edu/writing-center/ to book an appointment with a tutor—instructions for booking and visiting are available on the site as well. Appointments are approximately 30 minutes, and students can sign up for more than one session if they wish. They may also request that a tutor keep a regular time slot available for them if they would like to come in each week.

Location: The Writing Center has moved! The Center is still on the lower level of Cowles Library—please follow signs to find the new, larger, more comfortable space. The Writing Center offers hours daily, from mornings to late afternoon/evening (including weekends). Students with health concerns can request an appointment on Zoom.

For faculty and staff: If you refer a student to the workshop or require all students to visit, please let the Writing Center know via email (megan.brown@drake.edu). Ask students to bring their assignment prompt/instructions to the Writing Center, as well as any writing they have done so far. When students are referred, or required, to visit, the tutor will email you to let you know that your student has attended and briefly describe what work was done. When students attend on their own, The Writing Center does not inform professors unless they specifically ask the Center to do so.

For questions, contact Professor Megan Brown, director of writing, at megan.brown@drake.edu.

— Renée Cramer, Deputy Provost

For Faculty Archive, For Staff Archive

Deputy Provost 2:10: Books, breakfast, conversation, coworking, equity and inclusion

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

This fall we’ll be reading two books as part of the Deputy Provost’s Books for Breakfast series:

The New College Classroom, by Cathy Davidson and Christina Katopodis, Thursdays, Sept. 22 and Oct. 6, from 8:30–9:30 a.m.  Please email nicki.kimm@drake.edu to sign up and get your book.

AND

Teaching to Transgress, by bell hooks, Tuesdays, Nov. 15 and Nov. 22, 8:30–9:30 a.m.  Sign up here.

On Nov. 4 from 2–4 p.m., I’ll be leading a session on meeting the outcomes related to the Equity and Inclusion requirement adopted by faculty senate 18 months ago.  Please sign up here, as soon as you’re able to commit, so that I can be in touch with some pre-session questions and homework.

Books for Breakfast and the Equity/Inclusion session are in Howard Hall, Room 210.

In addition, I’m going to be ‘working in public,’ and hoping for impromptu conversation, in several different locations this fall. I’d love the chance to catch up with faculty colleagues I don’t often see in my day-to-day deputy-provosting. Please come find me. Here is where I’ll be:

Thursday, Sept. 15, 1:30–2:30 p.m., Olin, 1st floor

Tuesday, Sept. 20, 1:30–3 p.m., Olmsted Starbucks

Wednesday, Oct. 5, 9–10 a.m., Cowles Reading Room

Thursday, Oct. 13, 2–3 p.m., Collier Scripps, 1st floor

Thursday, Nov. 22, 10–11:30 a.m., Olmsted Starbucks

Friday, Dec. 2, 1–2 p.m., Cartwright Atrium

And, I’ll be hosting light breakfasts (pastries from La Mie, hot tea/instant coffee) in Howard Hall’s Academic Affairs suite, on the following dates.  No agenda—just conversation about teaching, professor-ing, out curriculum, and Drake:

Tuesday, Oct. 4, 8:30–9:30 a.m.

Thursday, Oct. 20, 8:30–9:30 a.m.

Friday, Nov 4, 8:30–9:30 a.m.

Friday, Dec. 2, 8:30–9:30 a.m.

— Renée Cramer, Deputy Provost

For Faculty Archive

Faculty of Color Affinity Group

Once again this year, the Provost’s office will be providing hospitality support for pre-tenure and non-tenure-track faculty of color to gather to build community, share resources, and create networks of support and collegiality. Assistant Professor of Math Enes Akbuga will be convening all interested faculty for a gathering(s) over coffee or dinner sometime this semester. If you are interested in joining us, please send Enes an email at enes.akbuga@drake.edu. Both new and existing pre-tenured faculty are encouraged to join.

— Jen Harvey, Associate Provost, Campus Equity and Inclusion

News & Achievements Archive

Nelson named a 2022 Next-Generation Future Pharmacist Award finalist

Molly Nelson, a fourth-year student pharmacist in the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, was named one of three national finalists for the 2022 Next-Generation Future Pharmacist™ Award sponsored by Parata Systems and Pharmacy Times. The winner will be announced during the Next-Generation Pharmacist Award Gala held on September 30, 2022, in Kansas City, Mo.

“I am incredibly honored to have been nominated for the Next-Generation Future Pharmacist Award and am astounded that I am a finalist,” said Nelson. “I am even more honored to be able to help the community through the work I do, while being mentored by amazing pharmacists everywhere I go.”

Read more about Molly Nelson’s accomplishments and the award.

— Kaylyn Maher, CPHS

For Students Archive

Dinner with the dean of students

Join Dean of Students Hannah Clayborne for dinner and a chance to catch up on things that are happening at Drake this semester. This is a great opportunity to make connections with fellow students along with the Dean of Students. Dinner will be provided for students just sign up in advance, but space is limited to 10 students. Please review the available slots below and click on the button to sign up.

Questions about this event, please contact Gina Ryan at gina.ryan@drake.edu with questions.

— Hannah Clayborne, Dean of Students