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For Faculty Archive, For Staff Archive

Drake Basketball: Faculty and Staff Days

All Drake 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 through Friday between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. or at the ticket window on game day. A valid Drake ID must be shown at time of pick up.

Women’s Basketball
Drake vs. Northern Iowa
Friday, Jan. 19 at 7 p.m.
The Knapp Center

Men’s Basketball
Drake vs. Missouri State
Saturday, Jan. 20 at 3 p.m.
The Knapp Center

More game information is available at www.DrakeTix.com/promotions. For more information, contact the Drake Athletics Ticket Office at 515-271-3647 or visit www.godrakebulldogs.com.

— Ryan Harris, Athletics

For Faculty Archive, For Staff Archive

Engaging with students at events

The Office of Student Inclusion, Involvement, and Leadership is looking for faculty and staff who would like to engage with students outside of their normal roles.

Each semester, many events and programs require extra help from faculty and staff. Some of these events include fraternity and sorority recruitment, Dogtown After Hours, and the Relays concert. At times, extra people are needed to help maintain order, and at other times, people are needed to help with specific tasks.

We are building a directory of faculty and staff who are interested in assisting with events. If you would like to be included in the directory, please fill out this form. You will be contacted based on the preferences you select.

Spending time with students outside of your normal role is a great way to build rapport with students and add a little more fun to your life.

For questions, email Kodee Wright at kodee.wright@drake.edu.

— Kodee Wright, Office of Student Inclusion, Involvement, and Leadership

Featured Events Archive

Alumni Recital Series presents: Dana Sloter, clarinet

Drake alumna and Teaching Artist of Clarinet Dana Sloter, AS’13 (Bachelor of Arts in Music), will perform a clarinet recital Feb. 28 at 7:30 p.m. at Sheslow Auditorium. The recital is part of the Alumni Recital Series, which showcases the professional accomplishments of Drake music alumni.

Dana’s performance will include pieces by Gaubert, Brahms, and Adler. The last piece, “Cirkusmuziek,” by Ton ter Doest, will include a unique reed quintet and feature fellow Drake Music colleagues. In addition, Dana will perform with Professors Cynthia Giunta, Jennifer Wohlenhaus-Bloomberg, Clarence Padilla, James Romain, and Timothy Gale. The concert is open to the public.

— Alina Grimm, College of Arts and Sciences

Featured Events Archive

This week in Drake Athletics

Come out and cheer on your Bulldogs!

Women’s Basketball – “Stripe The Knapp”
Drake vs. Northern Iowa
Friday, Jan. 19 at 7 p.m.
The Knapp Center

Show your Bulldog spirit and wear either blue or white depending on which section you’re in. Click here for the full color map. National performing artists, Quick Change, will perform at halftime.

Men’s Basketball – Bulldog Family Series presented by Iowa State Bank
Drake vs. Missouri State
Saturday, Jan. 20 at 3 p.m.
The Knapp Center

Kids should arrive early to participate in pre-game activities like poster making, tattoos, and photos with Griff and Spike (based on availability). All kids in attendance are encouraged to make a pre-game high five tunnel as the Bulldogs take the floor. Following the game, all kids in attendance are welcome to shoot a basket on Ron Pearson Court.

A giveaway will include State Farm Drake Bulldogs Rollabanna. National performing artists, Quick Change will perform at halftime.

For more information, contact the Drake Athletics Ticket Office at 515-271-3647 or visit www.godrakebulldogs.com

— Ryan Harris, Athletics

Campus Announcements Archive

Accepting nominations for Engaged Campus Award

Do you know of a Drake student, faculty or staff member, or alumnus who is doing great work in the community? Nominate them for an Engaged Campus Award, given out by Iowa Campus Compact. Nominations are due March 30.

Awards for students and student groups:

Student Leadership: a student leader with demonstrated accomplishments in engaging students in meaningful service and civic engagement.

Network Choice Award: student organizations or student-led projects can be nominated for online voting in late April that will allow our network to select a winner.

Awards for individuals:

Civic Mission Leadership: a faculty or staff member who has demonstrated leadership for higher education civic engagement and has worked to give voice to the civic mission of higher education.

Community Leadership: an alumnus of a member institution making strong contributions to their community and demonstrating the values of the civic mission of higher education.

Emerging Leadership: a new person in the field who is making unique and innovative contributions that demonstrate strong future potential.

Awards for groups or projects:

Emerging Innovation: a recent project, program, or initiative making unique and innovative contributions that demonstrate strong future potential.

Community Partnership: a campus-community partnership or collaboration that is deep, reciprocal, and transformational.

Awards for AmeriCorps members:

National Service Member of the Year: individual full-time, part-time, and summer AmeriCorps and VISTA members (in IACC programs) who have made significant contributions to building a community partner or campus department’s capacity.

It is highly recommended people review the rubric when writing award nominations. Award winners will be honored at the Engaged Campus Awards and Summit May 9 at Coe College in Cedar Rapids.

— Amanda Martin, Community Engaged Learning

Campus Announcements Archive

Facilities Planning and Management service request update

Facilities Planning and Management launched a new service request system in October, moving from InSite to TeamDynamix. As of Jan. 11, campus partners submitted more than 1,700 service requests through the new system, and approximately 1,500 of those are complete.

The move to TeamDynamix not only made sense financially, but it provided the framework for a unified tracking service across campus. This change aligns with our Continuous Improvement Plan initiative aimed at continually examining campus processes.

The new system supports our departmental commitments, which are:

  1. Ensure that we meet promised response and resolution timeframes.
  2. Collaborate to find reasonable and supportable long-term solutions.
  3. Strive to understand issues and requests before beginning work.
  4. Confirm that the request was completed to your satisfaction and in a professional manner.
  5. Improve communication related to project schedules and staffing.
  6. Work as a team to provide facility-related services on behalf of Drake.

These commitments assure that we achieve our Scorecard objectives.

In addition to the Survey of Administration Services, we plan to use the Satisfaction and Performance Survey, provided through TeamDyanmix, to measure our performance. Click here to view the survey results.

— Manny Toribio, Facilities Planning and Management

Campus Announcements Archive

National Girls and Women in Sports Day

National Girls and Women in Sports Day recognizes the extraordinary progress sparked by Title IX and the ongoing effort to ensure access to sports for girls and women. Thanks to a generous donation to Drake Athletics, Drake Women’s Basketball is offering a free clinic Sunday, Feb. 4, at 12 p.m. at Shivers Basketball Practice Facility. The clinic is designed to get local girls involved in sports and expand their opportunities in life.

Clinic registration is now open to all local girls eighth-grade and under. Registration will close on Friday, Feb. 2, or once all spots are filled. Space is limited and participant slots are filled on a first-come, first-served basis, so be sure to register early.

Clinic participants will receive a free t-shirt and four complimentary game tickets to the Drake Women’s Basketball game against Missouri State at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 4.

Registration and information is available at www.DrakeTix.com/ngwsd.

— Ryan Harris, Athletics

Campus Announcements Archive

Snow ordinance and parking: How to stay in the know

The City of Des Moines’ snow ordinance applies to five neighborhoods: Carpenter, Drake, Drake Park, River Bend and Sherman Hill. In these areas, vehicles are to park on the side of the street with street addresses ending in an even number on even numbered calendar days and an odd number on odd numbered calendar days. Snowplowing will occur from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Vehicles must be on the correct side of the street by 7 a.m. to avoid a ticket.

Sign up for notifications

Email: Receive email notifications when snow routes and odd/even parking ordinances are in effect by visiting the City of Des Moines website.

Text: For text alerts when parking is prohibited on residential streets, text DMSNOW to 96000. To know odd/even side snow parking zones, text DMODDSNOW to 96000.

Click here to view snow route related maps.

Campus Announcements Archive

MyDUSIS, blueView, Banner planned outage tomorrow

Starting tomorrow, Jan. 17, at 9 p.m. and lasting until 11 p.m., all Banner (DUSIS) services will be unavailable. Access to blueView, MyDUSIS, DUSIS (INB) Forms, Workflow, eTranscripts, Job Submission, and ODBC (Microsoft Access) will be unavailable. This outage will allow ITS to perform necessary maintenance to the Banner/DUSIS system.

If you continue experiencing issues after this window, please call the Support Center at 515-271-3001, or report your issue using the Service Portal at service.drake.edu/its.

— Carla Herling, ITS