From April 28 to April 30, Drake’s Safe Ride Bus will run extended hours from 8 p.m. to 3:30 a.m. each night. For your reference, typical bus hours are Sunday–Wednesday, 8 p.m.–1 a.m., and Thursday–Saturday, 8 p.m.–2:30 a.m.
—Scott Law, Director, Drake Public Safety
The Harmon Fine Arts Center building hours will be limited to all faculty, staff, and students April 22-24. The south entrance doors will not be accessible to anyone during the hours listed below:
The north doors will only be accessible to faculty, students, and staff who have Fine Arts Late Hours Access. If you have any questions, please contact Drake Public Safety at 271-2222. The Fine Arts Box Office will be closed during this weekend. To purchase tickets to The Wild Party, please go to www.drake.edu/theatre/productions/fineartsboxoffice.
—Alina Grimm, Fine Arts Coordinator
US Bank has maintained an ATM in the outer lobby of the Olmsted Center for several years. The activity level has been significantly declining, to the point that a $300 monthly fee will be assessed to Drake to keep the ATM. The bank has agreed to keep the ATM in Olmsted for free if the deposit function is disabled; this means that we can use the machine to withdraw money, but they won’t be stopping by to pick up deposits from the machine. As an alternative, there is an ATM that does accept deposits from US Bank customers at the US Bank location on 25th Street right next to Drake Public Safety. We are interested in your opinion about this potential change in ATM services. Please email nancy.crittenden@drake.edu with your comments by April 27.
—Nancy Crittenden, Associate Treasurer
If you are interested in helping with this historic event April 28–30, please go online to check out our available opportunities. Questions? Contact Shannon Saunders at shannon.saunders@drake.edu. With your help, this will be another successful year for the Drake Relays!
—Shannon Saunders, Special Assistant to Athletic Director
Due to multiple events on campus and increased community presence for the Drake Relays, it is necessary to establish the following parking restrictions for Drake parking lots from April 24 to May 2. Please review the restrictions listed below—your cooperation is greatly appreciated.
Please note: All residential parking lots are still under 24-hour residential permit only restrictions.
Sunday, April 24– Monday, May 2: Reserved—No Parking: Lot #17 (Facilities, 27/Clark)— Reserved for placement and use as Relays athlete warm-up area.
Tuesday, April 26, 10 p.m.–Monday, May 2, 4 p.m.: Reserved—No Parking: Lot 18 South (Studio Arts) and Lot 18 North (West Stadium)
Wednesday, April 27, 8 a.m.–Sunday, May 1, 8 a.m.: Limited Parking—North half of Olmsted Lot #16
Thursday, April 28, 11 a.m.–Saturday, April 30, 6 p.m.: Parking Lots 1 and 2 will be pay lots (Drake Permits valid at no charge until 4 p.m. on Friday in Lot 1).
In addition, on Thursday, April 28, we will be reserving and monitoring lot 2 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. for the president’s inauguration.
City Street Closures
Thursday, April 28–Saturday, April 30: 27th Street will be shut down for bus traffic from Forest Avenue to Clark Street.
Saturday, April 30: Meek Street will be shut down for the Hammer Throw.
—Scott Law, Director, Drake Public Safety
President’s Inauguration
In three weeks, at 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 28, we will celebrate the inauguration of Marty Martin as the 13th president of Drake University. I am writing now to encourage everyone to join us at The Knapp Center to witness this rare and important event, one that has happened, at most, just 12 times in our 134-year history. As a reminder ALL classes will be suspended from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. on the 28th. Normal class schedule will resume at 3:30 and evening classes will meet.
It has been 17 years since we last welcomed a new president. We want to make it possible for all members of the Drake community—faculty, staff, and students—to honor Marty Martin at the formal initiation of his presidency, to witness this historic moment, and to celebrate with him the start of something big. There will be pomp, there will be circumstance, there will be a good time had by all.
Provost Mobile Office Hours: This week you can find me on Tuesday, April 12, at Cowles Library Cafe, 1–2 p.m., and on Friday, April 16, at Olmsted Coffee Shop, 10:30-11:30 a.m.
—Joe Lenz, Interim Provost
Over the next few weeks, Drake’s new managed print vendor, LRI, along with Caron Findlay, director, purchasing and business services, will be scheduling meetings with departmental printing representatives to confirm device needs. These meetings will help determine which device model is appropriate for each department. In these meetings, they will also begin the process of scheduling delivery and installation of new devices and coordinating the removal of current Xerox devices. Additional information on the timeline for installation of and training on the new devices will be forthcoming.
—Carla Herling, Web Services Communications and Training Specialist
Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum Workshop. June 13–June 15. RSVP to marc.pinheiro-cadd@drake.edu.
Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum (CLAC) is a growing movement that enhances students’ abilities to utilize language skills by applying them in other disciplines. This workshop will inform faculty members about CLAC and describe how they can assist students in reinforcing and furthering their knowledge of other disciplines through the second language they have studied. Students will be able to acquire information about the discipline and recognize the distinctive viewpoints only available through the second language. Workshop participants will learn how to create a “linked” course—one that supports a course currently being taught but that utilizes curricular materials written in a second language and from a particular cultural perspective. (For more information, please see the CLAC Consortium’s website: http://clacconsortium.org. Drake is an institutional member.)
For example, a course on the politics of the Middle East might be linked to a one-credit-hour course in which the students read and discuss texts in Arabic. The students return to the politics course and tell the students and professor what they learned from sources not generally accessible to most students. Another model has instructors incorporating elements of CLAC into an existing course without adding the additional one-credit-hour course. These are two models, but there are many other possibilities about which workshop participants will learn.
This is the second CLAC workshop held at Drake. Last summer, 12 faculty members attended the workshop and of those, eight have implemented a version of CLAC principles in a class. In October 2016, Drake will host the 10th Cultural and Languages Across the Curriculum’s national conference (http://clac2016.wp.drake.edu).
Ten participants will be paid $200/day for each day of the two-and-a-half-day workshop. We will meet from approximately 9a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday and Tuesday and 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Wednesday. Lunches will be provided. Those who then develop a linked course will receive an additional $500 after the revised syllabus has been submitted to Marc Pinheiro-Cadd.
Details on the facilitator will be forthcoming soon.
We hope you will join us in June.
Provost Mobile Office Hour: Thursday, 1–2 p.m., Cowles Library Cafe
—Joe Lenz, Interim Provost
Faculty and staff interested in participating in one of the May workshops coordinated by the Office of the Associate Provost should respond by Friday, April 8. Details about the workshops are in the document sent to all faculty and staff last week.
—Art Sanders, Associate Provost
The installation of the GeoPier foundation system will begin the week of March 28. Those buildings and occupants in the immediate surrounding areas will experience noise and possibly minimal vibration as a result of the compaction of the foundation material. If you have any questions or concerns, please call Drake Public Safety (515-271-222) to report the issue.
