Category Archives: Archive

For Students Archive

Attention first-year students: Passionate about social justice?

Are you a first-year who is passionate about social justice? If so, the Social Justice Living Learning Community (SJLLC) is now recruiting for the 2017–2018 academic year! The SJLLC offers the opportunity to live with others who are passionate about social justice, participate in fun community activities, have guaranteed housing in Goodwin-Kirk, and take an awesome one-credit class focusing on social justice activism!

For more information and the application, you can follow this link: http://tinyurl.com/DrakeSJLLC2017

—Jackie Heymann

For Students Archive

Become an MVP

Do you have ideas on how Drake students can create change and prevent violence? Do you enjoy presenting? Are you a leader? Join the Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) team!

MVP facilitators receive 15 hours of training, serve on our full MVP team and present the curriculum on campus. Applications are available online and are due by Dec. 21. Priority in scheduling interviews is given to applications turned in prior to the end of the semester.

—Tess Cody, Office of Dean of Students

News & Achievements Archive

Faculty accomplishments: Week of Dec. 5

Teresa Koch, professor of librarianship and collection development coordinator, and Andrew Welch, associate professor of librarianship and librarian for discovery services and technology, recently published “Monograph Validation Strategies in Shared Print Programs: Variations and Value,” in Collaborative Librarianship.

Natalie Adkins, associate professor of marketing, was also recently published. She co-authored “The Stigma Turbine: A Theoretical Framework for Conceptualizing and Contextualizing Marketplace Stigma,” which appeared in the Journal of Public Policy & Marketing.

Featured Events Archive

The Comparison Project event

Please join us for the fifth event of our 2016–2017 series on death and dying—a dialogue panel between representatives of three different immigrant communities—African Islam, Serbian Christian, and Lao Buddhism—about their religious perspectives on death and dying. The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held Dec. 8 at 7 p.m. in Dunn’s Chapel at Iles Funeral Home, 2121 Grand Ave in Des Moines.

—Tim Knepper, The Comparison Project

For Faculty Archive, For Staff Archive

Preparing for J-Term 2018

It is time to consider offering a J-Term 2018 on-campus class. Schools and colleges will be assembling the J-Term 2018 schedule early in the spring semester. You should use whatever process your school/college uses to schedule classes.

If it is a new class that needs AOI approval, once it has been approved by the appropriate department/school/college, you should submit the appropriate AOI request form to the University Curriculum Committee.

The only difference in this process for J-Term than any other semester is that once the class is scheduled, we ask that you provide that information to Associate Provost Arthur Sanders.

Strategic Updates Archive

IMPORTANT campus budget discussion

The President’s Council invites you to attend a campus community budget discussion on Dec. 15 at 3:30 p.m. in the Shivers Hospitality Suite. We will be discussing the draft budget for FY18 that has been compiled with projections received from all departments this fall. There will be a presentation with plenty of time for Q&A.

Following the event, everyone is invited to stay for a Drake Social event from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Attendees will receive one complimentary ticket for beer or wine, water, soda, etc. Nearby parking is available in Lot 2 east of Shivers at the northeast corner of Forest Avenue and 25th Street.

Sponsored by the Office of the Provost.

—Kim Lammers, Office of Dean of Students