Dear students and colleagues, Events of the last few days have reminded us—if we needed reminding—that we still have a lot of work to do to create the welcoming and supportive community we aspire to be at Drake University for all of our students. The racist note slipped under a student’s door followed by the...
Author: Jarad Bernstein (Jarad Bernstein)
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Message to campus: November 8, 2018
Dear Students, Faculty and Staff, We hope that each and every one of you continues to support each other within our Bulldog community. Yesterday, someone slipped a handwritten note containing a racist threat under the door of a student’s residence hall room. The recipient of the note wishes to remain anonymous and has chosen to...
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Campus Compact and Principal select Drake University student for Community Scholarship Program
Drake University student Natalie Davis is among 11 college students from Iowa and Minnesota have been selected for the 2019 class of the Principal Community Scholars Program. The program is designed to encourage student leadership to meet community needs. Selected students will receive a $1,000 scholarship from Principal upon completion of a service project. This...
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Drake University’s School of Accounting ranks 14th in nation for CPA pass rate
Weeks after being named one of the Midwest’s best universities according to U.S. News and World Report’s 2019 Best Colleges rankings, Drake University is pleased to announce recognition on another distinctive list. According to results reported by the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy, Drake, a fully accredited AACSB business school, ranked 14th out...
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Fall Sussman Lecture will explore 60 years of space exploration
The Harkin Institute for Public Policy & Citizen Engagement’s Fall 2018 Sussman Lecture on November 1 will feature a discussion with NASA’s Chief Historian Bill Barry as the country’s space program celebrates its 60th anniversary. Barry will talk about NASA’s impact over the past 60 years, share thoughts on where the organization will go in...
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The Comparison Project hosts lecture on “miracles” and near-death experience.
The Comparison Project will present the second lecture of the second year of its two-year series on miracles. Jeffrey J. Kripal, who holds the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University, will deliver a lecture titled “Changed in a Flash: How One Woman Was Struck by Lightning, Talked to God,...
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Drake University signs articulation agreement with Iowa community colleges
Drake University has signed an agreement, effective immediately, that will ease the transfer process for students moving from Iowa’s community colleges to Drake. Under the articulation agreement, Iowa community college students who have completed at least 60 semester hours of courses and maintained a cumulative GPA of 2.0 can transfer to Drake University with all...
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The Comparison Project hosts lecture on miracles as stories: a journalist’s perspective
The Comparison Project will present the first lecture of the second year of its two-year series on miracles. Kenneth Woodward, former religion editor at Newsweek, will deliever a lecture titled “Miracles as Stories.” The lecture will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, September 13, at Sussman Theater in the Olmsted Center on Drake’s campus. Kenneth...
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