Head Coach Niko Medved and his staff invite all Drake faculty and staff to attend an open practice Oct. 10 at 3:45 p.m. in The Knapp Center. Faculty and staff are encouraged to come get a glimpse of this year’s men’s basketball team before the season kicks off. Attendees are welcome to come and go as they please and are not obligated to stay for the entire practice. Attendees should enter through The Knapp Center lobby and proceed downstairs to the men’s basketball practice facility.

For questions, contact Aaron Katsuma at 515-271-3894, aaron.katsuma@drake.edu.

—Tom Florian, Drake Athletics

ITS is excited to announce the launch of EdTech workshops. These workshops are designed to support faculty in the innovative use of educational technology in teaching and learning. The first EdTech workshop, “Mastering Student Communication,” will be held Oct. 19 from 2 to 3 p.m. in Olmsted, TMR 132.

Future workshops, “Student Technology Use in the Classroom” and “Getting Started with Blackboard,” will be held in November and January, respectively.

For more details and to sign up visit: drake.edu/edtech.

Need help sooner? Visit the IT Service Portal and request a Blackboard consultation or a technology adoption consultation, or search for answers in the Teaching and Learning section of the Knowledge Base.

—Karly Good, ITS

Blueview, MyDUSIS, and Blackboard are open for midterm grade entry until 10 a.m. on Monday, Oct 23. After this point, instructors will not be able to enter midterm grades.

For grade-entry instructions or questions, contact Kevin Moenkhaus, associate registrar, at kevin.moenkhaus@drake.edu or 271-3902. Thank you for your submitting your midterm grades on time!

—Kevin Moenkhaus, Office of the Registrar

The deadline for submitting course material requests for the upcoming J-Term and spring semester is Oct. 20. Receiving material requests as soon as possible enables the bookstore to source the most affordable books for students and provide top dollar to students selling books back at the end of this semester. With the bookstore’s Online Adoption Tool, selecting course materials is fast and easy. Also, download 6 Ways to Help Students Save on Textbooks to learn about different types of course material purchasing options.

Access the Online Adoption Tool

• Visit bkstr.com
• Go to Books in the top navigation and under the Information heading, click Online Adoptions.
• If you need additional training to use the Online Adoption Tool, contact Donna Hallstrom at hallstrom@drake.edu.

New User?

• Follow the steps listed above
• Click on Register Here and complete the required fields.
• Enter 1623 in the Bookstore Supplied Password field.

—Donna Hallstrom, University Bookstore

Don’t forget, faculty and staff can wear jeans with their Drake gear every Friday to show their Bulldog pride!

New this year, Drake Athletics will host a faculty/staff appreciation week. Faculty and staff are eligible to receive up to four complimentary tickets to the events listed below. Tickets may be picked up at the Drake Athletics ticket office Monday–Friday between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. or at the ticket window on game day. A valid Drake Card must be shown at time of pick up.

Women’s Soccer
Drake vs. Indiana State
Oct. 6 at 7 p.m.
Cownie Soccer Complex

Football
Drake vs. Dayton
Oct. 7 at 1 p.m.
Drake Stadium

Men’s Soccer
Drake vs. Loyola
Oct. 7 at 7 p.m.
Cownie Soccer Complex

Women’s Soccer
Drake vs. UNI
Oct. 10 at 7 p.m.
Cownie Soccer Complex

Volleyball
Drake vs. Missouri State
Oct. 13 at 7 p.m.
Knapp Center

More information is available at DrakeTix.com/promotions. For questions, call 515-271-3647 or email tickets@drake.edu.

—Tom Florian, Ticket Sales and Donor Management

Alumni tell us they want to stay connected to Drake by contributing to today’s student experience. Have you scheduled an alumnus to speak in your classroom, participate in a career fair, serve on a panel, be a mentor to a student? Now there’s an easy way to let Alumni Relations know so we can measure engagement, track interests, and communicate opportunities. Find the online form on the University Advancement Web page, or there is a link on BlueView under Faculty & Staff Resources.

—Andy Verlengia, Director of Alumni Relations

For the past two years, a group of faculty and staff have been meeting monthly to discuss issues related to creating inclusive learning environments. The group is continuing these meetings and opening them up to anyone on campus who wishes to talk about the challenges, successes, and failures we have faced as we try to navigate this difficult issue. This semester, the group will be meeting the second Monday of every month at 3:30 p.m. The next meeting will be at 3:30 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 9, in the Drake Room. For questions, contact Art Sanders at arthur.sanders@drake.edu.

—Art Sanders, Associate Provost

The second Friday FYS lunch/discussion is Oct. 6, at 12 p.m. in the Olmsted Center, Pomerantz Conference Room. You do not have to be a current FYS Instructor to attend. If you have an interest in teaching FYS in the future, or are curious to learn more about teaching FYS sections, you are welcome to attend. If you would like to attend, please register and select a lunch preference online.

—Art Sanders, Associate Provost

The first of the monthly Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) lunches is this Friday at 12 p.m. in Olmsted Center, TMR 133. Theses lunch discussions are an opportunity for those engaged in SoTL projects at any level—from just thinking about starting one to almost complete or those simply curious about SoTL—to share ideas, seek advice, or ask questions of colleagues engaged in the process. This year, members of ITS will attend to provide advice/information about SoTL projects that involve technology usage. While it is too late to order a lunch, faculty are still welcome to attend.

—Art Sanders, Associate Provost