If you bought a personal Windows computer in the last year, your hard disk most likely has been encrypted by Microsoft’s Bit-Locker.

If your hard drive icon has a padlock on it, your information is encrypted and safe from people who want to steal your data.

If you don’t have the code to unlock your hard drive, refer to the following steps to locate it:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/finding-your-bitlocker-recovery-key-in-windows-6b71ad27-0b89-ea08-f143-056f5ab347d6

Keep this code safe and secure, either stored in cloud storage or a notebook in a secure area. Do not keep it on the drive as you could need that code to unlock it if Windows throws an error on boot up.

If you have questions or need assistance with this process, contact ITS support via service.drake.edu/its.

Gillian Mohn, ITS

The Summer and Fall 2023 schedules of classes and related registration information is available online. Registration begins Monday, April 10.

View registration information, including the registration time table that shows when you become eligible to register. View the schedule of classes.

Some courses will be temporarily reserved for students who have declared a certain field-of-study (major, minor, concentration, or endorsement). On Monday, April 24, those reservations will be removed. Note that some courses have restrictions that are permanent.

If you are an undergraduate or pharmacy student intending to make any changes to your field-of-study and have those changes take effect before registration begins, file your changes via the change of record request no later than 4:30 p.m. on Monday, April 3. Requests submitted after this date may be delayed.

J-Term schedules will be published in October and registration will take place in November.

For J-Term travel courses, students first apply through Terra Dotta.  You will find travel course information by searching for programs in Terra Dotta. Students can apply starting March 8th, 2023.  The priority deadline for travel courses is April 7th.  More information is available on the J-Term webpage.

— Ryan Trump, Office of the Registrar

Bulldog Bucks are a campus card account that can be used both on and off campus.  They can currently be used on campus at any Drake Dining location, at the Campus Bookstore, or for campus printing.

Your Bulldog Bucks can currently be used off campus at Gursha Ethiopian Grill and Dough Co. Pizza.  We hope you can help us support these community partners and this program by using your Bulldog Bucks in their restaurants this semester.  If you have any other restaurants you’d like to see on the program in the future, feel free to email the SSC with your suggestions!  We’ll reach out to them over the summer, and will be working to expand the program for fall.  **Spoiler alert, we’ve got a new business in the process of being set up…watch the Drake Student Central Facebook page for this announcement!**

You can ALSO use Bulldog Bucks as a payment method in the Grubhub app, and they’ve got promo codes to celebrate the tournament available this month.  Don’t forget that even if you choose not to pay with your Bulldog Bucks, if you add your campus card as a payment option, you get to enroll in Grubhub+ free of charge…this helps get you special deals and savings with any payment method.  If you’ve linked your campus card in Grubhub, you should get the promo codes for this month via email, but just in case, they are listed here.

Tournament Promo Codes (terms apply):

3/24 – 3/26 – GRUBISLIFE ($15 off an order of $25+)

4/1 – 4/3 – MADGRUB ($7 off an order of $15+)

If you have any questions about the off campus program, please let us know.  Also, please remember that if you are graduating, you’ll want to use your Bulldog Bucks and Dining Dollars before your card is turned off at graduation.   Bulldog Bucks for returning students and employees will carry forward to the fall.

Thank you for your support of this program, and feel free to contact studentservices@drake.edu with any questions.

— Sara Heijerman,  Student Services

Congratulations to the Men’s and Women’s Basketball teams for winning their respective MVC Tournaments and receiving automatic bids to the NCAA Division I Tournament! The Bulldog Shop has NCAA Tournament T-shirts available for purchase online and in store this week.

Use this coupon to receive 20% off one item.

Bulldog Shop store hours:
Monday–Friday: 9 a.m.–5 p.m.
Saturday: 10–2

Or, visit the Bulldog Shop online.

— Kelly Foster, Business & Insurance Manager

Congratulations to the Men’s basketball team for winning the MVC Tournament! The Bulldog Shop will have MVC tournament champion shirts available this week. Make sure you grab your Drake gear and support the Men’s basketball team next week!

Bulldog Shop store hours:
Monday–Friday: 9 a.m.–5 p.m.
Saturday: 10–2

Or, visit the Bulldog Shop online.

— Kelly Foster, Business & Insurance Manager

The Drake University Constitutional Law Center is pleased to announce Julie C. Suk as presenter of the Spring 2023 Distinguished Lecture. Her lecture titled “Unamendable: Lessons from Failed Constitutional Amendments” will be delivered in-person and virtually on Thursday, March 9 at 3:30 p.m. at the Neal and Bea Smith Law Center, 2400 University Avenue, Des Moines. Registration is free and open to the public.

Julie Chi-hye Suk is an interdisciplinary and comparative legal scholar at Fordham University, researching equality at the intersection of law, history, sociology, and politics in the United States and globally. She has authored dozens of articles and book chapters about comparative constitutional law; the procedural implementation of equality norms in the United States and Europe; gender quotas; and women, work, and family.

“Professor of Law Julie Suk has written extensively on women’s equality, misogyny, constitutional amendments, comparative equality and more. Her topic of constitutional amendments is very important as the U.S. Constitution has recently been subject to various criticisms,” said Professor Mark Kende, Director of the Drake University Constitutional Law Center.

The Constitutional Law Center’s Distinguished Lecture Series brings to campus the nation’s leading constitutional scholars to engage students and faculty on the important issues of the day. Speakers deliver a formal lecture, give a presentation to faculty, and meet with students in informal settings.

Visit http://bit.ly/3xP9t3xfor registration information. CLE credit is applied for and pending. Space is limited for the in-person lecture, but guests can view a live stream in Cartwright Hall, 2621 Carpenter Avenue, Des Moines, room 213.

—Taylor Johnson, Law School

Beginning Saturday, March 11, most campus buildings, with the exception of Cowles Library and Athletic facilities, will have limited hours for Spring Break.  Buildings will be open from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on weekdays and closed on weekends. Normal access plans will still function during Spring Break and buildings will return to their normal schedules on Monday, March 20. 

In addition, the Safe Ride Bus will stop operations on Sunday, March 12,  at 2:45 a.m. and resume on Monday, March 20.

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

The Division of Student Affairs is hosting a presentation, titled “Disability Inclusion and Awareness in Higher Education,” on Wednesday, March 8, from 1–2 p.m. in Olmsted, Rooms 310–311. Presenters include Matthew Williams, senior in the Zimpleman College of Business, and Ezra Krivolavy, residence hall coordinator and diversity inclusion specialist. The presentation is open to students, faculty, and staff.

— Hannah Clayborne, Dean of Students

Faculty, staff, and students are periodically asked to update and confirm their emergency contacts using Self Service. In the past, a separate screen appeared requiring updates and confirmation before other Self Service actions could occur. A change in how everyone is prompted to update and confirm their emergency contacts is set to go live on March 13, 2023. The next time you are required to update your emergency contact after March 13, an action item will be assigned to you. Please review Using Action Items in Self Service (How To) for more information on how to view and complete an action item. 

—Tyler Spoon, ITS