Unless extended again, the federal student loan payment and interest pause expires on August 31, 2022. Learn more.
The temporary expansion of Public Service Loan Forgiveness, which makes more borrowers eligible for this benefit, ends on October 31, 2022. Learn more.
— Ryan Zantingh, Director of Financial Aid
Each Tuesday in OnCampus the Deputy Provost shares two articles with a read time of 10 minutes.
Please welcome Professor Megan Brown into an additional new role at Drake University—director of writing. Starting July 1 as director of writing, Professor Brown will oversee and advise the work of our Drake student tutors in the Writing Workshop; she will also convene and participate in faculty development around the teaching and evaluation of writing across the disciplines.
Megan has taught writing across a variety of settings, and with diverse populations, for more than twenty years, and we are fortunate to have her as both a professor of English and a founding faculty member of the John Dee Bright College. She is the author of two books, and a dozen articles and essays; at Drake, Megan teaches a range of writing-related courses, including Narrative Nonfiction.
We are thrilled that she will bring her expertise to the Writing Workshop, as well as her commitment to building rapport and community with students and faculty, in the belief that we can all develop our writing skills and capacities.
— Renée Ann Cramer, Deputy Provost
A new feature in Banner Self Service is coming July 1. Action items will alert you to tasks you need to take care of. The first action item you’ll see starting July 1 is the student financial responsibility agreement. A few other examples of action items include entry of local address and entry or update of emergency contact information. These and more action items will be implemented and assigned as their setup work is complete.
Some action items will halt other processes. For example, a student financial responsibility agreement action item will need to be completed in order to view your current schedule or register for classes.
Please review Using Action Items in Self Service (How-to) for details on viewing and completing action items.
For questions about the student financial responsibility agreement action item, please email stuacct@drake.edu.
— Julia Gwebu, Student Account Services; Kris Brewster, ITS
Due to required maintenance for the end of the fiscal year, Admin Pages, Touchnet, and portions of Self Service will be unavailable between 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 30, and lasting until 12:01 a.m. on Friday, July 1. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
If you experience issues outside of this window, please call the Support Center at 515–271–3001 or visit https://service.drake.edu to report your issue. Thank you for your patience as we continue to strive to provide superior service.
— Heather Travis, Finance
Hubbell will be open the following hours in June:
June 14–16
Breakfast: 7–7:45 a.m.
Lunch: 12:30–1:15 p.m.
Dinner: 5–5:45 p.m.
June 17
Breakfast: 7–7:45 a.m.
Lunch: 12–12:30 p.m.
Dinner: 6–6:40 p.m.
June 18
Breakfast: 8–9:30 a.m.
June 19
Dinner: 5–6 p.m.
June 20
Breakfast: 7–8:30 a.m.
Lunch: 12–1:15 p.m.
Dinner: 5–6 p.m.
June 21
Breakfast: 7–8:30 a.m.
Lunch: 11:15 a.m.–1:15 p.m.
Dinner: 5–6 p.m.
June 22
Breakfast: 7–8 a.m.
Lunch: 12–1:15 p.m.
Dinner: 5–6 p.m.
June 23
Breakfast: 7–8:30 a.m.
Lunch: 11:30 a.m.–1:15 p.m.
Dinner: 5–6 p.m.
June 24
Breakfast: 7–8:30 a.m.
Lunch: 11:15 a.m.–1:45 p.m.
June 25: Closed
June 26
Dinner: 6–6:40 p.m.
June 27
Breakfast: 7–9:30 a.m.
Lunch: 12:30–1:15 p.m.
Dinner: 5–5:45 p.m.
June 28–30
Breakfast: 7–7:45 a.m.
Lunch: 12:30–1:15 p.m.
Dinner: 5–5:45 p.m.
— Shaelyn Hankins, Drake Dining
Fall parking permit sales for the upcoming academic year begin July 1. Log into myDrake and select “Parking Tag Registration” to register for your pass. Please make sure to have your license plate number at the time of purchase, as it will be needed for registration.
There have been a few small adjustments to the parking permit system. In an effort to provide more economical parking spaces to campus, we have converted the Stadium parking lot (formerly green) to a perimeter parking lot (now purple). The price for perimeter parking lots has not changed, and there will be more spaces available for purchase at the $125 rate.
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 now available to full-time, benefit-eligible part-time, and adjunct employees. Credit/debit card is also accepted for any pass purchase.
Resident passes: $395 (24/7 parking)
Premium passes: $280 (yellow, Olmsted lot; red, Ray Promenade lots)
Perimeter passes: $125 (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
Join Central Iowa Alumni for a social mixer at Rico’s at Drake ahead of Juneteenth on Tuesday, June 14, at 5:30 p.m. Folks are encouraged to donate books from an approved registry of BIPOC written and focused children’s books to be provided to children at Iowa Juneteenth’s Neighbors Day the following Saturday. Books can also be delivered directly via the Amazon registry. View the registry. Heavy hors d’oeuvres will be served.
Anyone is welcome to attend, regardless of their affiliation to Drake. Register.
— Courtney Conrad, Alumni Relations
On Saturday, June 25, the Panopto Cloud will be updated with the latest features and improvements. As a result, Panopto will be unavailable from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday evening.
During the downtime, you will be unable to access videos on your Panopto site and any attempts to upload videos will result in a “Server unable to connect” error message.
We appreciate your patience. If you are unable to access Panopto after the planned maintenance window, please contact the support center at 515–271–3001 or visit service.drake.edu/its to report your issue.
— James McNab, ITS
The Office of Community Engaged Learning celebrates the collective work of the Drake campus and community over the past year. Students, faculty, staff, and community members worked together to learn, grow, and act. Volunteers recovered nearly 1,700 pounds of food that was delivered to local organizations and pantries; prairie plants and native trees were planted in the new Sprout Garden & Food Forest space, along with 350 pounds of food grown and donated; and 12 AmeriCorps members served more than 3,500 hours of service to the local community. And much more!
To learn more about community engaged learning initiatives at Drake and to get involved, visit www.drake.edu/cel or contact servicelearning@drake.edu.
— Amanda Martin, Community Engaged Learning
On June 11, ITS will be performing required maintenance on the University server storage system. This maintenance will begin at 6 a.m. and be completed by 12 p.m. During this maintenance window, Banner, Transact (eAccounts) and printing services will be temporarily migrated to Drake’s secondary data center. These services will be down from approximately 6–7 a.m. during the transition. They will be down again for approximately one hour as the services are migrated back to the primary data center in Des Moines. The timing of the second outage will depend on how long it takes to complete the storage maintenance, so an exact estimate is not available.
Network and Internet services should not be impacted by this change. Also, any services fully hosted in the cloud, such as Blackboard, Zoom, Email, myDrake, and Teams will not be affected.
All other services will be down during the entire maintenance window, including, but not limited to, Drake BI, Citrix, and EMS. We will work to make this outage as brief as possible.
— Chris Mielke, ITS
