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Limited tickets available for Drake Women’s Basketball Pink Game

The Drake women’s basketball team will host its annual Pink Game presented by MercyOne Medical Center Des Moines during the upcoming Southern Illinois series, Feb. 11–12. The team will wear pink jerseys for each game and fans are encouraged to wear pink to the games as well.
 
Traditionally, every year Drake Athletics recognizes cancer survivors on court at halftime of the Pink Game. Since Drake Athletics is limiting court access to essential personnel, we will honor those people who have fought or are still fighting cancer with a special recognition on the video board. Please complete this questionnaire for you or someone else to be a part of this special digital recognition that will take place at halftime of the Friday, Feb. 12, game against the Salukis. All submissions are due by midnight on Feb. 9.

— Aimee Lane, Athletics

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Time to recycle your old phone

After the switch to Teams calling, old phone handsets are no longer needed for individual extensions. Boxes are being placed in all campus buildings to collect these phones and recycle them.

Look for a cardboard box near your building’s mailboxes marked PHONE E-WASTE and recycle your phone handset before Feb. 26.

If you’re not going to be on campus before then, please work with your building manager or a colleague to ensure your phone handset is recycled properly.

—Chris Mielke, ITS

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Candidates sought for internal searches

The Office of the Provost is seeking internal candidates for two positions.

  • Associate Provost of Campus Equity and Inclusion
  • Deputy Provost

Application materials for Associate Provost for Campus Equity and Inclusion are due Feb. 5. Application materials for Deputy Provost are due Feb. 15.

Find additional information and application procedures on the internal Drake HR page. Go into myDrake, and choose Human Resources from the top menu. Then enter this address: https://www.drake.edu/hr-internal/positions/ .

— Drinda Williams, Office of the Provost

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All Staff Council virtual break

Do you miss the chance to visit with your Drake colleagues on the way to the “water cooler”? Please join our virtual break, hosted by All Staff Council and Human Resources. The event will take place Thursday, Jan. 28, from 3–4 p.m. on Microsoft Teams.

During the event we will host small group break out rooms where you can reconnect, get to know new people, and maybe leave with some recommendations of fun things to do in the area.

Please see the event on the University Calendar for the link to the Teams Meeting.

— Kevin Saunders, on behalf of All Staff Council

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New Access and Success Office

Student Disability Services and Academic Achievement have joined together to launch the new Access & Success office. This resource-neutral approach will yield increased capacity, allow for more proactive intervention, and support sustainable collaboration to best serve students. Access and Success will clear a pathway for the campus community to get students connected to needed resources.

Access and Success will serve all Drake students and focus on a holistic, wellness centered approach. In addition to disability services and peer tutoring, other resources may include, but are not limited to, academic coaching appointments, webinars, and workshops.You can quickly and easily connect your students to these resources by making an access and success referral in Starfish.

If you host a webpage or maintain any pdf resources that link to Academic Achievement, please note the URL will change on Feb. 1 to drake.edu/access-success.

— Michelle Laughlin, Access and Success

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New portal to support online teaching

Drake Online & Continuing Education has worked with ITS, including Academic Emerging Technologies (AET), to develop a new service for faculty and instructors developing and teaching online classes. A new portal has been established in TeamDynamix for service requests related to online teaching. Faculty and instructors can choose between two services: Online Course Consultation and Online Course Issues. Consultation is focused on helping faculty who are developing a course. Course Issues is for instructors experiencing technical issues in their online classes. In addition, we will be building a library of knowledge base articles to support online teaching throughout the next year.

The portal is live and faculty can begin requesting assistance immediately.

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Join the WellPower Challenge

Are you looking for a way to keep your fitness goals on track in 2021?  The WellPower Challenge may be for you.

This free web-based program encourages you to increase your daily physical activity with an opportunity to earn virtual badges and prizes for achieving and logging healthy activities, both physical and mental.  The challenge is part of the WellPower Movement, a new year-round activity-tracking website from the Wellbeing Partners and the Nebraska Sports Council.  The web portal content is focused on Nebraska organizations, but the WellPower Challenge is open to companies and organizations in Iowa and Nebraska.

The goal of the WellPower Challenge is to log at least 100 activity miles between Feb. 1 and April 30.  Activity miles can be achieved by walking, running, biking, and/or converting other physical and mental health activities.  Those who log 100 miles by April 30 earn the WellPower 100 badge and will be entered into a drawing for more than 100 top-tier prizes. Prizes will also be awarded for earning 25- and 50-mile badges.

You may join individually or invite friends, family, and co-workers and compete as a group.

For more information, please email linda.feiden@drake.edu.

— Linda Feiden, Human Resources

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True Blue nominations open

The All Staff Council Recognition Committee is accepting True Blue nominations through April 1 to be entered into this year’s Sapphire Award nomination. A staff member who is called to be True Blue is someone who:

  1. Epitomizes the values of leadership, teamwork, and integrity, and exhibits their commitment to the Drake community.
  2. Has shown others what it takes to get a task or project done, and accomplishes that by working well with others.
  3. Is able to be honest and fair in the situations they face.
  4. Does all of these things for the betterment of Drake and its values and goals.

If this sounds like someone you know, make your nomination today! And, congratulations to all of the staff members who received a True Blue award last fall. We appreciate your hard work and dedication!

— Amelia Klatt, On behalf of All Staff Council