Each year, Drake Dining donates unused flex dollars to help fight hunger both locally and globally. Unused Flex money left over at the end of the year is donated to Sodexo’s Stop Hunger Foundation. The organization uses the money to help provide nutritious meals to children and support food pantry programs, food recovery programs, and community gardens. This year, the Stop Hunger Foundation awarded a grant to help the Sprout Garden construct hoop houses over the raised beds, put up signage, and seed/plant garden beds. In June, more than $32,000 of leftover flex money was donated to the Stop Hunger Foundation.

— Jennifer Bowersox, Drake Dining

For the rest of the summer, prize packs will be given out to a randomly selected participant at each GroupX class. To win, participants must be pre-registered for the class using the IMLeagues App or website. The more classes you register for and attend, the greater your chances at winning. Prizes will be given out on the following dates:

Friday, June 8
Tuesday, June 12
Monday, June 18
Wednesday June 20
Thursday, June 28

— Drake Wellness

In preparation for the launch of the new myDrake portal later this month, ITS is rolling out a new login screen for Office 365. The current screen will continue to be used for other applications including TeamDynamix and Slate. Here’s the current screen:

The new screen, shown below, will replace the current Office 365 login screen beginning tomorrow, June 13. This may result in an outage affecting logging into email between 10–11 p.m.

Office 365 is the first system to use this new login screen. Other applications will eventually be converted to the same login screen. The new login will allow for single sign-on (SSO) access. With SSO, you only have to sign in once, and your authentication is passed on to other applications without having to enter your username and password again. ITS is working toward connecting many applications, including Blackboard and the IT service portal, through SSO access.

One important change with this new system is that you have to be sure to bookmark the application that uses the login screen rather than the login screen itself. This ensures that your credentials will be passed correctly between systems.

— Carla Herling, ITS

Going somewhere fun this summer? Attackers are hoping you’ll also take a vacation from protecting your valuable accounts and personal information. Summer is traditionally high season for scamming, and this summer is shaping up to be a hot one, with active campaigns swirling around purported security incidents at trusted organizations, vacation bookings, and the World Cup.

No matter where you’re checking messages, whether at the local pool or from an exotic destination, slow down and take a closer look to make sure your plans don’t get disrupted.

Here are some indications that an email may be dangerous:

• A strange sender, or one that you don’t expect
• A request that you take ‘urgent’ or ‘immediate’ action
• Links or attachments that don’t match the message content or that you don’t recognize.

ITS will continue to send out simulated attacks to faculty and staff this summer. If you receive any email that you suspect is phishing, don’t click any links, download any attachments, or reply. Instead, forward the email as an attachment to informationsecurity@drake.edu.

Additional training will be assigned to faculty and staff members who repeatedly click links or open attachments in phishing emails, simulated or not.

For more information on how to report phishing emails, see the IT Service Portal guide, Reporting a Phishing Message (How-to).

— Peter Lundstedt, ITS

Drake Women’s Basketball Head Coach Jennie Baranczyk and the women’s basketball staff and players would like to invite girls in grades K-12 to participate in one of our exciting 2018 basketball camps. Find the dates of camp and more information on our camp website bulldogbasketball.com. To receive a Drake faculty/staff discount, contact Sarah Hoffman at sarah.hoffman@drake.edu.

— Nicci Hays Fort, Athletics

Summer group fitness classes are in session now through Friday, June 29, at the Bell Center. All classes are free for faculty, staff, and students. View the schedule.

— Ellen Lowe, Wellness & Recreational Services

Community Engagement at Drake has been nationally and locally recognized by the Carnegie Foundation’s Community Engagement Classification, the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, and the United Way of Central Iowa Volunteer Award. Read more about the impact of our programs in our updated Community Engaged Learning Impact Report. Highlights from 2017–2018 include:

Tracking Community Engaged Learning:

• Refining standards and identification process for tagging courses with a Community Engaged Learning (CEL) attribute.
• Identifying where CEL happens in each of the colleges; 33 percent of academic programs integrate at least one CEL experience in the curriculum. An audit with CPBA revealed 62 percent of all CBPA undergraduates will take a CEL course before they graduate.

Building a signature service year program:
Eight students successfully completed 300 hours of service as a result of participating in the Engaged Citizen Corps program, which resulted in $66,663 monetary value contributed to communities.

Faculty development:
Laura Kieran, assistant professor of special education, and Sally Haack, associate professor of pharmacy practice, have been accepted for national publication and presentation. Their manuscript, PRELOAD: A Rubric to Evaluate Course Syllabi for Quality Indicators of Community Engagement and Service-Learning Components, will be published in the Journal of Community Engagement & Higher Education and presented at the International Association for Research on Community Engagement & Service-Learning this summer.

Co-Curricular Service:
Launching an inaugural Paul Morrison Service Week that resulted in over 400 hours of community service.

— Renee Sedlacek, Community Engaged Learning