All Drake faculty/staff are eligible to receive up to four complimentary tickets to the upcoming Drake Volleyball match. Tickets may be picked up at the Drake Athletics Ticket Office Monday—Friday between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. or at the ticket window on game day. A valid Drake Card must be shown to pick up tickets.

Volleyball
Drake vs. Northern Iowa
Friday, Sept. 21, at 7 p.m.
The Knapp Center

More game information is available at DrakeTix.com/promotions.

For more information please contact the Drake Athletics Ticket Office at 515-271-3647 or visit GoDrakeBulldogs.com.

Ryan Harris, Athletics

Email phishing is one of the most prevalent attacks directed at Drake – over 100 million phishing emails are sent each year to drake.edu addresses. That’s why ITS works to educate faculty, staff, and students on how to avoid these attacks designed to convince us to give away our information.

One goal of phishing is to coerce recipients to download or open malicious attachments and files. This specially crafted software runs on your computer, giving a foothold into the network. To help combat this threat, ITS routinely updates internet browsers and other susceptible software. Depending on the update, this may cause the software to restart. Please contact the Drake Support Center if you ever need assistance with updating computer software.

We’ll be distributing another phishing education scenario this month. These phishing email look-alikes provide information about how to spot malicious emails in a risk-free environment.

When you encounter an email you don’t recognize, always slow down and look carefully for red flags that give away its intent before acting. Report suspicious emails.

—Peter Lundstedt, ITS

This summer, Professional and Career Development Services  upgraded our career management software by replacing Career bluePrint and moving to Handshake. This new technology provides significant improvements to online recruiting, events management, and communication services functions. We are excited about this upgrade and all the new features and services it will make possible for our students, alumni, employers, and the broader Drake community.

Training Session
All interested faculty and staff are invited to attend a training session tomorrow, Sept. 12, at 5 p.m. in Sussman Theater, Olmsted Center. Additional training sessions within the colleges will be offered throughout the fall.

Accessing the System
Interested faculty and staff are welcome to create a student account on Handshake. For more information, or if you have questions, contact your Professional and Career Development Services liaison at drake.edu/career/contact.

Why Handshake?
We chose Handshake because of the wealth of features and functionality it offers to our users. For example, Handshake provides:

• A customizable, personalized experience similar to that of LinkedIn or Facebook
• An intuitive design that’s easy to learn and use
• A set of fast and powerful search tools for both job seekers and recruiters
• The ability to have access to jobs on a local, regional, and national scale
• Better access to internships and other career development opportunities
• An iOS ready mobile app

Crystal Stanley, Academic Excellence and Student Success

Faculty and staff who attended the Drake Learning Symposium were introduced to an array of strategies to help navigate difficult conversations in both the classroom and in the workplace. Keynote speaker Dr. Kathy Obear was a dynamic and knowledgeable facilitator, addressing an audience of over 120 Drake employees.

Feedback from the event included a request by many for additional training and ways to carry the information into departments across campus. Those who attended received a packet of information with website links for free access to Dr. Obear’s books, resources to accompany the books, and webinars. Any of these might be used for additional small group work. Please contact Drinda Williams if you need these links.

In addition, the classroom and workplace scenarios generated by those in attendance have been recorded, and may be used for small group discussion or problem solving. Please contact Drinda Williams if you would like these scenarios.

The Learning Symposium was followed by this year’s first Drake Social in the Cline atrium. President Marty Martin welcomed new and returning faculty and staff, and shared some ways employees will be engaging with the Drake Values throughout the year.

See the Learning Symposium web page for more information.

Drinda Williams, Office of the Provost

The first session in our series on grant writing and research, is tomorrow, Sept. 12, in TMR 133 from 3:30 to 5 p.m. The topic is Grant Writing and Finding Funding. There is no need to register.

Art Sanders, Associate Provost

The first of this semester’s online learning sessions is Thursday, Sept. 13, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the Drake Room, Upper Olmsted. The topic of the session is Cheating. You should have received a document that will guide discussion.

Art Sanders, Associate Provost

The Speaking Center opened yesterday, Sept. 10. For more information, please contact Joan McCalister at joan.mcalister@drake.edu. 

Art Sanders, Associate Provost