Parking passes for the 2024–2025 academic year are now available for purchase. You can purchase a pass on the Public Safety website (www.drake.edu/publicsafety/parking).

Please note that a successful registration will result in a confirmation email immediately after your purchase from the Drake Workflow account.  Please double check that you received a confirmation email.

You’ll receive a second email once the parking pass is ready to pick up at Student Services in Olmsted from studentservices@drake.edu. 

Please email studentservices@drake.edu if you’d like us to confirm your parking purchase, or if you have any additional parking questions.

— Sara Heijerman, Student Services Center

The Drake community is invited to tune in June 26 at 12 p.m. for an exclusive Everclass session featuring Brendan Daly, AS’97, a seasoned NFL coach with six Super Bowl rings and nearly two decades of experience. As a Drake University alum and current linebackers coach for the Kansas City Chiefs, Daly has been a key figure behind the Chiefs’ back-to-back Super Bowl victories in 2023 and 2024.

The session will be moderated by Michael Admire, the ‘Voice of the Bulldogs’ and Drake’s Director of Broadcasting. Register and attend via Zoom.

— Bruce Heintz, University Communications and Marketing

Every Tuesday and Thursday in June, Gail Witte will be teaching Functional Fitness from 12:15–12:45 p.m. Functional Fitness is a dynamic and versatile training program designed to improve your everyday life through exercises that mimic real-life movements. By focusing on movements that you perform daily, such as lifting, pushing, pulling, and twisting, Functional Fitness aims to enhance your strength, balance, coordination, and flexibility. This approach not only builds muscle and burns fat but also increases your overall mobility and reduces the risk of injury.

— Gail Witte, Recreational Services

Construction on the Johansen Student Center (formerly Morehouse Hall) is continuing as planned.  Significant upgrades to the main electrical service to the building are part of the project. To bring the new Johansen Student Center electrical equipment on-line, there will be an electrical shutdown on June 11 from 6 p.m. to midnight for the following buildings: Olmsted Center, Aliber Hall, Meredith Hall, Cowles Library, and the Johansen Student Center (Morehouse). No access or use of these buildings will be permitted during this time.

— Heather Winslow, Capital Projects, Facilities Planning & Management

Due to required maintenance for the end of the fiscal year, Admin Pages, Touchnet, and portions of Self Service will be unavailable from 12 p.m. on Sunday, June 30, through 12:01 a.m. on Monday, July 1.  We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

If you experience issues after the maintenance is complete, contact the ITS Support Center for help by visiting service.drake.edu/its, calling 515-271-3001, or visiting the lower level of Carnegie Hall. 

— Heather Travis, Finance

The Department of Theatre Arts is pleased to announce that the winning playwright for this year’s Neighborhood Playwrights Series is Karen Schaeffer. Karen’s winning entry, HEAD VOICES, was selected by a committee comprised of Drake Theatre students and faculty. HEAD VOICES will be produced as a staged reading Friday, Sept. 13, and Saturday, Sept. 14, in the Turner Jazz Center as the first production of our 2024–2025 Main Stage Season. The reading will be directed by Drake Associate Professor Erin Degner.

This is Karen’s second win in the NPS competition. Her play PROLOG (co-written with her son, Alex Schaeffer) was the winning entry in 2023.  Congratulations to Karen and we hope you will join us for the reading of HEAD VOICES in September.

— Josie Poppen, Theatre Arts

Parking permit sales for the upcoming academic year will begin Monday, July 8.  Please visit https://www.drake.edu/publicsafety/parking/ and select “Online Parking Registration” to register for your pass. Please make sure to have your license plate number available at the time of registration.

Permits will be available on a first come, first serve basis, and we ask that all permit sales be done online. The payroll deduct process can also be completed online, and is available to full-time, benefit-eligible part-time, and adjunct employees. Credit/debit card is also accepted for any pass purchase. An email confirmation will be sent to you when your pass is ready to be picked up at the Student Services Desk in Olmsted, please bring an ID for verification.

Resident passes: $400 (blue, 24/7 parking)

Premium passes: $290 (yellow, Olmsted lot; red, Ray Promenade lots)

Perimeter passes: $130 (all orange and purple lots)

Evening/Weekend passes: $100 (valid from 4:30 p.m. to 2 a.m., Monday through Friday, and all day on weekends)

Passes are valid from August to August, and will be available to pick up in the Student Services Center (Olmsted) in August.

Please visit drake.edu/map to see where the lots are located, and contact studentservices@drake.edu for questions.

— Sara Heijerman, Student Services Center

The Iowa State High School Track & Field Championship brings thousands of High School athletes, and guests to the Drake campus.   This year the Championships occur on the Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of finals week.

As a reminder, parking and travel on and around campus will be impacted during finals week from Thursday, May 16—Saturday, May 18.

It is highly recommended that if you are coming to campus from off grounds, that you use public transportation, if possible.  If you do plan on driving, give yourself plenty of time to find parking.  Please remember that cars that are parked on the grass, illegally in handicap spaces, or blocking operations will be towed without notice.

All valid commuter permits will be honored throughout the week and may be used in any commuter lot with the exception of lot 16 (Olmsted) and lot 13 (Ray Promenade) regardless of color throughout the day and in all commuter lots after 4:30 p.m.

Only residential permits are valid in residential lots. 

Thursday, May 16 – Saturday, May 18 – Forest Avenue will be fully closed from 27^th Street to 29^th Street and will allow for only limited access from 24^th to 27^th Streets and from 29^th to 31^st Streets, between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. each day (5 p.m. on Saturday).  No street parking is allowed along Forest Avenue.

Thursday, May 16 – Saturday, May 18 – 27^th Street will be closed to through traffic between Forest Avenue and Clarke Street between 7 a.m.–7 p.m. (5 p.m. on Saturday).

Thursday, May 16 – Saturday, May 18 – Lot 18 S (Studio Arts) will be closed/no parking allowed.

Thursday, May 16 – Saturday, May 18 – Clarke Street will be posted No Parking from 27th Street to 25th Street.

Residential Students needing to move out of the Quads have received separate information in regard to move-out.  All residential students should familiarize themselves with restrictions that will be in place for move-out on Thursday and Friday.

— Scott Law, Executive Director, Public Safety & Operational Services